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Former Employee

Dec 20, 2016

Announcement: OneDrive Sync Updates

All of us here on the OneDrive Team have been hard at work delivering many of the OneDrive sync client updates we communicated at Ignite to further improve the user experience and administration of s...

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Brass Contributor

Dec 20, 2016

For SharePoint site sync to really work it would be great if you didn't have to add each SP site to each machine with onedrive you wanted it to sync to. e.g. add a site in one place and get it on all your machines. This is why Dropbox sync works well for folders shared by others, it all just goes in the one place on all your devices. I don't want to have to add my 10 sites i care about to my 5 different devices (laptop, phone, tablet, home pc, desktop).

KevinCrossman
MVP
Dec 27, 2016
Actually, I can see plenty of use cases where I wouldn't want that. I might want to sync 10 SharePoint sites + entire OneDrive library on my laptop, but on my mobile device I might want only one or two SP sites.
- Chris Johnson
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 30, 2016
  Sure. It should give you the choice of what to sync on each device then. Having to manually find each one again and set up sync with it seems terrible to me.
Ronald van Ackooij
Brass Contributor
Dec 20, 2016
That would indeed be a very nice option, but not as the default setting. I have a lot of clients that do not have huge drives in their machines (128 SSDs), and they don't want everything to sync to all devices.
- Chris Johnson
  Brass Contributor
  Dec 20, 2016
  Even a checkbox to optionally include each one you have added before would be nice, like it does for other onedrive/dropbox folders. I just dont want to have to manually find each site on each device and set up sync for it .. again.
  - jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Dec 20, 2016
    Thanks for these awesome updates. IMHO is better to way some more time just to be sure everything is absolutely ready!!

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