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How to add additional folders
How can I add additional folders for One drive to backup other than just Documents, Pictures, Desktop ? Say I have a folder in my C drive I want backed up all so?
Actually you can. Just create a symbolic link to OneDrive folder.
mklink /D "C:\Users\Fatih\OneDrive\MyFolder" "C:\Users\Fatih\Downloads\MyFolder"
mklink is used for making links (like shortcuts)
/D is to specify that the target is a directory (you can ignore it if you just want to add a single file).
command syntax is MKLINK [/D] Link Target
Note: I did not test it thoroughly but it added the folder to sync.
mklink /D "C:\Users\Fatih\OneDrive\MyFolder" "C:\Users\Fatih\Downloads\MyFolder"
mklink is used for making links (like shortcuts)
/D is to specify that the target is a directory (you can ignore it if you just want to add a single file).
command syntax is MKLINK [/D] Link Target
Note: I did not test it thoroughly but it added the folder to sync.
This is so useful, thank you!! OneDrive is following my symlink directory exactly as intended.
I will add that you can also combine this with addressing an external drive as a volume ID for reliability. Use `mountvol` in the command prompt to get the ID of the volume you want to access.
mklink /D SymFolderName \\?\Volume{1b3b1146-4076-11e1-84aa-806e6f6e6963}\ExternalFolderName