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Include files in OneDrive sync without copying them
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 think the fundamental problem here is that this thread wants to use OneDrive for Business as a Backup product rather than a productivity tool. Its not meant to be a backup solution. If you want to backup your files then go get a product that is designed to do that. If you want to sync directories of files so that you can work on them from online and in multiple places, then that is what OneDrive for Business is designed for. With the recent announcement of the redirection of Known Folders this gets even better. But I doubt you will ever see MS design OneDrive sync to allow backing up of random directories wherever they happen to be. Its not what it was designed for.
