Windows 10: Onedrive adds folders already in Dropbox

When I recently did a clean install of Win10 on my wife's computer, it put a number of folders in her Onedrive folder (without asking!). She has an outlook.com email account. This was quite fortunate in a way because one of the folders was her Desktop. This helped in the clean install. She logs into her computer using a local log-in.

My question relates to Onedrive, Dropbox, This PC and User-gerry for documents, pictures etc

What I find, is that there are folders for documents and pictures, in Dropbox, Onedrive and in This PC. There are no such folders under users-gerry, but Dropbox and Onedrive are there.

For example:
Onedrive
- Documents
- Pictures
- Desktop
- others
Dropbox
- Documents
- Pictures
- others
This PC
- Document
- Pictures
- others
Users-->Gerry
- Dropbox
- Onedrive
- others, but no separate documents or pictures folders

I tried changing the name of one file in Dropbox Documents, but that change did not show up in Onedrive or the This PC folder. I could do some more testing, but it seemed folders are not synchronized.

The above resulted from doing a clean install to a new drive, then copying the key folders over from old Win 10 drive that I put in an external enclosure.

What I am looking for, is a way to make sure that all folders are at least synchronized and in proper locations.

Thanks for any help

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Wow - thanks for considering this. It's really kind of you!

If you could extract the files and add them to a Zip folder, I suspect you could upload that zipped folder to a shared OneDrive or DropBox folder and just make that folder public. If you use OneDrive, just share the folder & use a link for accessing the
folder. Then just paste the link back in this thread for others to see: How to share (or unshare) files, folders, and documents, using the OneDrive website | Digital Citizen

Thanks again!

 

Help with location of user folders when Onedrive and Dropbox are being used.

When I recently did a clean install of Win10 on my wife's computer, it put a number of folders in her Onedrive folder (without asking!). She has an outlook.com email account. This was quite fortunate in a way because one of the folders was her Desktop. This
helped in the clean install. She logs into her computer using a local log-in.

My question relates to Onedrive, Dropbox, This PC and User-gerry for documents, pictures etc

What I find, is that there are folders for documents and pictures, in Dropbox, Onedrive and in This PC. There are no such folders under users-gerry, but Dropbox and Onedrive are there.

For example:

Onedrive

- Documents

- Pictures

- Desktop

- others

Dropbox

- Documents

- Pictures

- others

This PC

- Document

- Pictures

- others

Users-->Gerry

- Dropbox

- Onedrive

- others, but no separate documents or pictures folders

I tried changing the name of one file in Dropbox Documents, but that change did not show up in Onedrive or the This PC folder. I could do some more testing, but it seemed folders are not synchronized.

The above resulted from doing a clean install to a new drive, then copying the key folders over from old Win 10 drive that I put in an external enclosure.

What I am looking for, is the proper locations for documents & pictures. Should I create those folders in user-gerry, then copy all the files to those. Then delete them in This PC, Dropbox and Onedrive and let them resync? Or what is best plan?

Thanks for any help

* Moved from Windows 7

 

No answers here? All I am looking for is a standard layout for an installation that has say two cloud services. Mainly for documents and photos which should be synchronized with cloud servers.
There used to be a way to eliminate Libraries, but I don't see that. Never understood their use anyway!