Windows 10: Onedrive sync and backup

Hi, a few questions on onedrive, just starting to use it now. 1 I see there is a onedrive folder, if I select the choose folders in the app, it only offers me stuff in that onedrive folder to sync. How do I sync other folders like 'mydocuments' 'mypictures' or some other folder I have on my desktop?2 I see also there is a 'backup' choice in the onedrive app, that one seems to offer mydocuments, mypictures, myvideos' etc. Years ago I picked one drive backup for a pc I used to have, it backed up for a while , then it removed ALL the files that it backed up so they weren't on my pc anymore. Th

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Some photos skipped by Onedrive backup upload. How to sync?

Hi everybody,

make your voice be heard here: https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/...038-proper-sync-for-photos-backup-to-onedrive

best regards

marco

 

device backup on onedrive

TomBrad95 is slightly wrong. There's nothing wrong with your backup, it's just that showing up as a device backup in OneDrive wasn't added until WP8.1. WP8.1 backs up more stuff, which makes it appear in the OneDrive list of devices.

Is your Microsoft account syncing? Is text message backup on? If yes, then you're fine.

 

OneDrive File Syncing and Backup

Ferds,

Thanks for your reply.

Followup question: But, if I do NOT turn on OneDrive Backup, the files I have specified under "CHOOSE FOLDERS" still get "synced". So, what is the difference between Backup and Sync? What does turning on Backup do for the user?

And Question #3: What happens if I use File Explorer and copy/paste my music Library onto OneDrive. Does that successfully get my Music onto OneDrive (and syncing with OneDrive)?

Thx,