I want to set up a backup for a folder on my D: drive. I’m using OneDrive with my Family Edition license. However, when I try to set it up, Microsoft OneDrive only provides me the following specific folders:
Documents
Photos
Desktop
Music
Videos
I do not want any of those. I want a folder on my system’s secondary disk, D:. And only one folder and its subfolders. I tried for 30 minutes but couldn’t figure it out. If there is a method to achieve it, it is not readily apparent.
So, can this be done? If so, how is it accomplished?
There is no inherant advantage. But if you want files on D: drive inside OneDrive then you either have to
1) move OneDrive to D: so that the folders on D: can be put inside, e.g. if you want D:\X to be in OneDrive then it will have to be set up as something like D:\OneDrive\X
2) move everything on D: you want on OneDrive to a folder inside OneDrive synced to C:
3) upload D:\X to OneDrive via web-interface, perhaps omitting sync back to C:\…\OneDrive – therafter manually managing uploads.
As you likely don’t have space on C: to hold X files then you’ll have to set it up with Files on Demand so that files are only locally present if requested.
As always, make sure you have an actual backup of your files outside of OneDrive as half the posts to this forum are from people who have lost access to OneDrive, improperly synced files, or deleted the files themselves without realising that deletes all synced copies of those files.
