Windows 10: How to migrate files without confusing One Drive

To be honest, one never really knows what it might decide to do. But regardless, the worst case situation is that it re-uploads the files.. it would not create multiple copies of them (unless you changed the folder structure somehow when copying them).

Would that be a terrible thing if it happened? I probably wouldn't even notice.. unless you have a metered internet connection.

 

or slow connection

It took me over 6 weeks to get my photos and 10% of my music on onedrive (cannot have it constantly uploading as the internet is unusable when this happens)

So for me I would certainly notice and it would be a major inconvenience if it wanted to upload all again

 

I'm now in the same position of doing just this after buying a new computer. So, for me I have copied over 92GB of files from the OneDrive folder on my old PC to the new one before launching OneDrive on the new one. So, what has it done?....

Mostly it has been fine, for some reason it has decided to re-upload 5.6GB of the 92GB of files. I don't know what is different about that particular 5.6GB of files to the rest of them though?!?!? One thing I have noticed that you should be aware of though is that I have a few encrypted files (ZIP files with passwords) that OneDrive has checked and tried to "merge" and failed because it can't open the files. When this happens, it does create two files - the one on the machine gets renamed with the machine name appended to the end of the filename and then it downloads the copy on OneDrive in the place of the original filename. (The same as when it detects a file conflict with files that have been updated in two different machines)