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1. Reassess the possibility to ignore or exclude selected OneDrive folders and files from the sync process.

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   339 comments  ·  OneDrive on Windows » Desktop (Sync, Files On-Demand)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Delete…  ·  Admin →
   working on it  ·  AdminGaia Carini (OneDrive PM Manager, Microsoft) responded

   This feature has rolled out for files (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/use-group-policy#exclude-specific-kinds-of-files-from-being-uploaded) and we are looking to expanding it to folders in the future.

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   Mark Hughes commented  ·  March 29, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   This is not a solution. Businesses working both remotely and in-office need to be able to easily switch between computers.

   If we cannot exclude certain directory patterns, e.g. "\users\mark\projects\**\node_modules" it breaks one drive, which will try to sync 100,000+ files that; a) won't work on another computer, and b) don't need to be in onedrive. There is no "clean" solution to moving these out of onedrive either, we would have to make a symbolic link manually.

   It may be worthwhile to look at an alternative for businesses.

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   Mark Hughes supported this idea  ·  March 29, 2021