Syncing any local folders to OneDrive using mklink command Ask Question Asked 4 years, 11 months ago Modified 4 years ago

I don't like this feature, because every time I put a 1 gig file on either folder it instantly starts syncing to my Onedrive, which only has like 1 gig capacity. When I went to one-drive settings.

0 A potential work-around that worked for me in a specific case: 1) Requires two OneDrive accounts (personal and business), 2) one account is busy (the problem) and the other is not, and 3).

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If this is what you want, this is how to do it. I want OneDrive to stop syncing three large folders that will take hours to download, so that I can just sync one other folder that I want.

You can try syncing OneDrive regularly using Task Scheduler. The steps are as follows: Search for task scheduler, and then open the Task Scheduler app in the search results. Select.

That might work for one or two project folders but won't scale for the common case where a NodeJS developer has hundreds of project folders or cloned code samples or a large project with a.

One Drive is not magic. It tries to sync all of My Documents plus anything else you specify. Make certain your documents are safe. Copy them to an external drive to make a copy..

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In addition to Ramhound's answer, syncing a file can create a writelock, one service can lock a file while the other wants to access it and visa versa, similarly to having 2 virus scanners.

I can't just move the folder since I would have to move where every game I play stores their data, and every future game, and most games don't support that. Is there a way to stop.

0 I had a similar problem. My folders in OneDrive and iCloud Drive opened very slowly. I tried to reinstall both OneDrive and iCloud Drive, nothing helped. But I found the reason, the most.