Organize the files as you want on your main computer - then let these changes sync (upload) to the cloud.Īfter the main computer syncs, mirror the files to the other computers. Unlink your OneDrive everywhere except the main computer. The correct thing to do would have been this: Do you mean by unlinking an account from settings and then adding it back? These files were already in the damn folder.Ĭan you clarify what you mean by 'deactivate' and 'reactivate'. I'm sitting here watching them re-download in the status window. In other words, it probably deleted most of it (for not matching datestamps or something, I don't know - not recognizing it as matching the cloud drive anyway) and is redownloading the same files. But now that I've signed back in to Onedrive and designated this folder as my Onedrive folder, it's telling me this folder is 300 gb allocated but only 80 gb on disk - with that number going up. This folder is already physically present on the disk. I guess this is my fault but I hoped/figured Onedrive was smarter than this and would actually scan files and see that they're identical to what's on each computer and the cloud.Įdit: ugh, I really fucked this up. The only way I know to preserve timestamps in MS Windows is to zip the files up and unzip on the other end. I'm guessing now that the timestamps are probably slightly different, since Windows puts a new timestamp on newly created files. I'll have the original folder, then a folder with 'foldername_computername'). It seems to be reuploading everything from every computer and creating duplicates of most of the files and folders (i.e.

Then I used Freefilesync to completely mirror this Onedrive folder onto my other computers. Then on my main computer, I reorganized my Onedrive a bit.

I disconnected Onedrive from every computer.

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