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  1. Pat A_357 Win User

    How can I sync two local folders in Windows 11?


    I need a solution to keep all subfolders and files in one folder in sync with a duplicate folder on the same PC.Specifically, this is my Documents folder. Even though this folder on OneDrive, with all its subfolders and documents, is automatically replicated locally on my PC, I need to have another copy of this whole folder because the one being maintained by OneDrive is under a location named “OneDrive” and can’t be accessed by my backup service Backblaze. The way around this I came up with is to create another Docum

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  3. Kari Win User
    Local Acct user and MS account user - sync them or merge them

    If the local account is the one where you have most of your personal data, this is how I would do it:

    • Sign in to your Microsoft account
    • Copy all documents, pictures and other personal data from Microsoft account's user folders to corresponding folders in user Public (contents of MS account Documents folder to Public Documents folder and so on)
    • Sign out from Microsoft account
    Notice that above steps are only required if Microsoft account user folders contain data you want to keep. If its user folders are empty or do not contain anything worth saving, you can skip the above steps. Continue from below.

    • Sign in to the local account
    • Delete the Microsoft account (Option One in this tutorial)
    • Switch your local account to a Microsoft account (tutorial)
    • Copy the data backed up from old Microsoft account to Public folders to new Microsoft account in corresponding folders

    That's it. Using the Public folders as temporary storage you will have none whatsoever file owner / permission issues later on.
     
  4. chideock Win User

    How can I sync two local folders in Windows 11?

    Local Acct user and MS account user - sync them or merge them

    Thank you. I will give it a try later today and post my results.

    Got to it sooner than I thought.
    Your method worked perfectly.

    Thank you
     
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