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Feature request: sync data folders without moving them to local OneDrive folder
PROBLEM: Manually managing data storage in Windows is clumsy and difficult. The only thing worse than doing it manually is to have tools that 'sometimes or most often' work. Microsoft has intr...
This is indeed very important.
I have files on different drives, my Desktop is on C: and my photos and music on an external drive.
Based on how OneDrive works, if I want to sync everything then my options are,
1) To have my Desktop on my external drive (resulting in low speed and inability to access my desktop if I remove the USB drive)
2) To have all my files on the OS drive, which is a more expensive storage (resulting in risk of losing my documents when the next Windows update messes the OS)
With Google Drive I could sync all those folders with the cloud, but I now regretfully notice that the creators of Windows do not allow on their equivalent program a similar behavior.
