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Include files in OneDrive sync without copying them
- May 31, 2017
Hi John.
This feature is not available natively at the moment, but luckily there is a very effective workaround (if you are using NTFS as the local file system).
You should simply create in the local sync folder a symbolic link to the folder that you want to sync (which is located elsewhere) and such folder will sync as if it were a regular subfolder of the local sync folder (it can even be selectively synced...).
You can create symbolic links using the command line or by a wonderful utility called Link Shell Extension.
Hope it helps...
I have the opposite problem. I want to make sure large files and unused files (archives and pictures) do not get sync'ed so I am using a symlink. It seems to work, but if anyone finds that it doesn't under certain situations please let me know.