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OneDrive Folder Redirection - Data Loss!
Hi Everyone!
I was hoping that you would be able to help us out with an issue with Folder Redirection.
What we are trying to do:
We would like to redirect common user folders to OneDr...
The real question is how did you set this option in the GPO setup, cause it even warns you :).
"On the Settings tab, clear the Move the contents of Documents to the new location check box.
Note: Leaving this setting enabled could result in data loss when the contents of the Documents folder is merged with the OneDrive folder, if there are files with the same name in both locations."
If you didn't enable this, then your files will still be on the computer in the old folder location c:\users\username\desktop (or documents etc).
If you did, then your probably looking at backups which I hope you have a client backup solution :(. Assuming you said you checked previous versions tab as well (check previous version of the root profile folder and then check desktop/documents folder).
"On the Settings tab, clear the Move the contents of Documents to the new location check box.
Note: Leaving this setting enabled could result in data loss when the contents of the Documents folder is merged with the OneDrive folder, if there are files with the same name in both locations."
If you didn't enable this, then your files will still be on the computer in the old folder location c:\users\username\desktop (or documents etc).
If you did, then your probably looking at backups which I hope you have a client backup solution :(. Assuming you said you checked previous versions tab as well (check previous version of the root profile folder and then check desktop/documents folder).
- Thanks for the reply Chris.
Yes, the settings are correct. The case I'm describing was caught in testing.
Do you know if this is 'expected behaviour' of folder redirection? Is there a workaround to prevent data loss?
Thanks.- Yes, uncheck that option on the GPO, and have users manually move their data over, if they have similar filenames, move to a different folder inside OneDrive. otherwise your not guaranteed issues.
I wish I had a better answer but when your talking duplicate filenames your sort of in trouble cause not everything is going to be different.
Only thing I could think of as well using some form of maybe using robocopy to find a command line that can do file compares, and if the file matches don't copy, but if it's different copy and rename if filename exists. But nothing built in will automatically do that for you, your going to have to come up with a flow manually, or with some form of script to hand out for folks to run to move that data in this given scenario.
