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johnbor
Mar 12, 2023Brass Contributor
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?
klinz
Jan 07, 2024Copper Contributor
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.
jvernice
Aug 01, 2025Copper Contributor
So, there is no way to add random folders. I am very surprised at MS for not providing this very basic functionality.