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Neptune48
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Jul 13, 2023

Can't set up One Drive

I'm trying to set up a One Drive backup. The online instructions say to launch the app and click the 'OneDrive Help and Settings' icon (gear wheel). I launch One Drive and I get a File Explorer scree...
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Ehsan_G 

Ehsan,

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer me.  I apologize for the delay in responding to you.  

 

I think I have it working—sort of.  But the only thing I can sync up to the cloud is the OneDrive folder in my personal Users section.  It is much too small to load the entire 128 GB in my external drive, which is what I want to back up to the cloud.  I even installed CBackup, but it is the same.  It won't allow me to access the external drive to create an automatic backup.  I'm really getting frustrated at this point.  I've worked with computers since 1969, and I can't understand why these people insist on making a simple task so convoluted and difficult.

Regards,

Bruce

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Neptune48
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Jul 19, 2023

Neptune48 

To amply a but further, and to express my total confusion, the beast is offering to back up my documents, pictures and screen shots.  NOWHERE can I find a way to sync an external drive.

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    Ehsan_G
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    Jul 19, 2023

    Hello again Neptune.

    No worries , i will wait for response.

     

    I don't fully undrestand but if you are trying to sync an external drive to the cloud and its big... just in the settings of your OneDrive. Link the external drive to be synced.

    here's the steps:

    Go to the OneDrive sign-in webpage from any browser and log in to your account.
    Step 2. Click the Upload option on the main page of OneDrive and navigate to the external hard drive folder. You can select the entire file or the files in it, and click Open to confirm the sync files from the external drive to OneDrive


    Thats it, you can backup all of it, or part of it.
    If there's anything else or somethnig i missed, let me know.

    Thanks
    Ehsan G.

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      Neptune48
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      Jul 19, 2023

      Ehsan_G 

       

      Thanks for the quick answer.  I went to OneDrive online using MS Edge, logged on and selected upload.  I selected the J:\ Drive and got a bad argument type error.  The only way I can upload is to select each of the 150 folders one at a time and upload it.  Is that how it has to be done?  And once done, how do I set up to backup automatically any files that have been changed or added?

       

      Thanks again,

      Bruce

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        Neptune48
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        Jul 19, 2023
        Well, uploading the folders doesn't upload the files within them! So then I tried to upload files, selected every folder in the j: drive I wanted, and it uploaded what appeared to be about a dozen files from random locations. At this rate, it will take about two months to backup one hard drive. I don't think that's how it's supposed to work.

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