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How to stop a Sharepoint library syncing down to PC via OneDrive
I think there is a little confusion here...
To be clear:
- First of all, it is necessary to understand if you are running the new client (NGSC) or the old client (Groove). So please see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Which-version-of-OneDrive-am-I-using-19246eae-8a51-490a-8d97-a645c151f2ba?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
- If you are still running the old client (Groove), then the first thing to do is to get rid of it. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Transition-from-the-previous-OneDrive-for-Business-sync-client-4100df3a-0c96-464f-b0a8-c20de34da6fa
- If instead you are running the new client (NGSC), then you can stop selectively the syncing of single SharePoint libraries, without affecting the syncing of your ODfB library. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sync-SharePoint-files-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88
Hope it helps...
Right click the blue cloud icon in the icon tray and go to Settings->Account. There you can stop syncing a whole library.
BTW, If you can sync the whole library, it means that you have access to the whole library: you cannot sync anything that you have not access to. Has your colleague shared more than he wanted?
- Although I could do that Salvatore, it would also stop syncing on my onedrive for business cloud store, because the blue cloud represents both the SharePoint sync and my work OneDrive store. I want to kept OneDrive sync but stop the SharePoint Online sync.
Frustrating! 😬I think there is a little confusion here...
To be clear:
- First of all, it is necessary to understand if you are running the new client (NGSC) or the old client (Groove). So please see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Which-version-of-OneDrive-am-I-using-19246eae-8a51-490a-8d97-a645c151f2ba?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
- If you are still running the old client (Groove), then the first thing to do is to get rid of it. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Transition-from-the-previous-OneDrive-for-Business-sync-client-4100df3a-0c96-464f-b0a8-c20de34da6fa
- If instead you are running the new client (NGSC), then you can stop selectively the syncing of single SharePoint libraries, without affecting the syncing of your ODfB library. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sync-SharePoint-files-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88
Hope it helps...
A MS page states that "If your organization is currently syncing SharePoint Online document libraries using the previous OneDrive for Business sync client (Groove.exe), the new OneDrive sync client will automatically take over syncing those libraries when users set up a new site or sign in to the client for the first time".
However, that was not my experience. I think the old Groove was still running in the background and getting in the way of OneDrive.exe. Once Win10 was refreshed onto my hard disk, I had the same version of OneDrive as I had before, (but no groove.exe) and everything now seems to work smoothly and as I originally assumed it should.
Salvatore's advice to get rid of the old Groove.exe was the answer.
- It looks like you are using the old onedrive client "groove.exe" not the next gen one drive client "onedrive.exe"
Here is a guide on setting it up:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-in-Windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-858262e42a49?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Additionally for the SharePoint side you need to enable this in the admin portal, see this guide:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-users-to-sync-SharePoint-files-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-22e1f635-fb89-49e0-a176-edab26f69614
