Windows 10: Setting up OneDrive correctly on a PC...

For some time, I have been using OneDrive on my 'phone (successfully, but limited to only a few files and photos).

I've now tried to set it up on my Laptop, with a view to linking and uploading all my files - Documents, Pictures etc.

However, in the setup 'wizard', I'm not presented with the option of linking any of the Folders on my Laptop - instead, I can only see the 2 existing folders that currently appear in my online OneDrive account (i.e. those which I originally set up from my 'phone).

I'm not sure where to go from here, I've read the tutorials, but can't figure it out.

Any suggestions, please?

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The Luginy Kid -

Thank you for posting on the Windows Phone Community.

It sounds like everything on your phone is set up correctly. There is one thing with the OneDrive account that you'll want to check, in this situation. Open up OneDrive from a PC browser, and change the permissions for that album to be Public.

Let us know if that works!

Regards,

 

OneDrive crashes on Mobile

That's an improvment: resetting and then running the OneDrive app the second time allowed me to see the files on OneDrive. However, photos still don't sync (at all) to OneDrive - Photos | Settings shows the amount of storage space used on OneDrive
correctly, and Camaer Upload Settings look correct, but no sync takes place. Is there any way of doing the equivalent of "Unlink this PC" on the desktop?

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Hi,
To get your current documents etc onto Onedrive its a manual process

So in file explorer, click on the Documents folder under This PC and select everything in it, then move this to the documents folder on Onedrive

Same for Music, Pictures etc




Once you have moved everything into the Onedrive folders, these will all upload and stay in sync with whats on your PC

If you want all future files to auto save there, right click Onedrive icon in the taskbar and select settings
You need to go to this tab and select what you want auto saved to Onedrive

 

Hello Peter, have a look at this

Solved Windows 10 instructional videos by Ten Forums members - Page 12 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Paul

Thanks for your reply - isn't there a way of maintaining the original Documents Folder as the 'master' folder into which I save everything as usual, with just a link to OneDrive that will automatically upload any changes?

Or, failing that, would I have to 'move/relocate' all my Folders into the One Drive Folder? And is there a downside to that?

Dude

I don't like the 'Libraries' option, I want to save my files to their 'default' locations.

 

There might be a way of tricking it into linking to the current location, but its not something I have looked at

I moved everything of mine into the onedrive folder and then set the defaults in the onedrive app to save there, everything I create now automatically goes to the onedrive folder and is synced with the cloud

Not aware of any downsides in doing this, the files are still stored locally, just have the added benefit of being on onedrive also

The original locations on the PC as still there, so if you have anything confidential that you don't want to upload, you can just save it here instead

 

You can change the location of your documents folder so it is in OneDrive.

Right click on properties of the documents folder, location tab and change it to C:\Users\<name>\OneDrive\Documents.

It will ask you if you want to move your existing content - just say yes.

After that any time you select documents or OneDrive\Documents it will take you to the same place. You can do the same with Music, Photos etc also.

 

Thanks all, now sorted...

 

Just a quick caveat to my 'solution' - Microsoft Outlook doesn't like the fact that its Data File is now in the OneDrive Folder and won't play ball at sending and receiving emails...I'm frantically trying to solve that now...

 

Don't think you can do that as Outlook locks the pst. Using OneDrive or Cloud Storage for PST Files

 

Hi Halasz

The only reason it's caused me a problem is because the default location for the Outlook Folder containing the .pst file is within the Documents Folder, which, of course, I'd linked to OneDrive.

Later, I'm going to try and move the Outlook Folder up a level into my Username Folder and see what happens - it's supposed to be simple to do and easy to redirect Outlook to the new location...depending on which site you 'Google'...

 

It isn't clear to me what you actually did.

When you change the location of your Documents folder to OneDrive it doesn't actually move it. What it moves is the association of where "My Documents" is.

For example, I have moved "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Music" to OneDrive. Almost everything goes there.

However some programs (Microsoft RDP is an example) still hard code the path. That is they say they still use C:\Users\Nori\Documents rather than follow the correct path C:\Users\Nori\OneDrive\Documents

 

Hi again

I used the 'Move' option under the 'Location' Tab in my Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos Folders and redirected them to the (My Username) OneDrive Folder path.

The only glitch I receive is from Microsoft Outlook, because its default path to the Data File is C:\Users\(myusername)\Documents\Outlook Files\(my mailbox name).pst

All files from all 4 Folders are uploaded correctly to OneDrive, but afterwards, when I open Outlook, it is still looking for the original file path, saying that the path it found is C:\Users\(myusername)\OneDrive\Documents\Outlook Files\(my mailbox name).pst and it says that's invalid/incorrect.

That's why I was thinking of trying to move Outlook out of my Documents Folder and exclude it from the One Drive sync.

 

I've not used Outlook for a while but I guess you can still move the location of your data files. My partner uses Outlook 2016 - I'll try to see if the pst location can still be changed and see.

Bottom line is you need it explicitly defined to be outside your OneDrive though.

What version do you use? I have Office 2010, she uses 2016. If you use either of these I could check it better.