Windows 10: Themes not syncing backgrounds

Hi,

I have a theme on my desktop PC which obtains its backgrounds from a folder in My Documents. There are about 300 in there. I have no issues with the theme using all the backgrounds available.

Until, that is, I switch on the sync theme option. Then the theme which magically appears on my laptop is the same, but only has about 10 backgrounds which the theme is accessing in a new folder called Desktopbackgrounds. In other words, they don't all sync across.

I go back to my desktop PC and it then has the same issue. Instead of using the folder in My Documents with all my backgrounds in, it is also only using the 10 or so stored in the roaming folder Desktopbackgrounds.

Its a real shame, because I'd like to sync my theme across my PC and laptop, but if it doesn't let more than 10 backgrounds sync, whats the point!

Anyone else have this issue?

Matt

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Which theme picture and background picture are you referring to?

You can set your desktop background picture in Settings under Personalization :: Background.

Do you use multiple systems? If you're using multiple systems, you might want to turn off the Sync your settings :: Theme option, as that would sync your backgrounds across systems.

 

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You could move the folder from Documents to OneDrive - then it would sync them all.

See OneDrive Selective Sync - Choose Folders in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Sorry I wasn't clear. That won't help because I store My Documents on Onedrive already. I have Onedrive running on both machines.

It simply seems that a synced theme has a small limited number of backgrounds that it syncs.

 

I have the same issue.

 

This is correct. The auto-sync of themes limits their maximum size. If you want a "full size" theme, you will need to manually sync/copy it across machines.