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Thread ID: 143951	2017-05-21 22:37:00	One Drive	Driftwood (5551)	PC World Chat

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1435593	2017-05-21 22:37:00	Must be a few users on here. I've got it set up to sync with my documents folder only. But it's not auto syncing. I don't have the app. This is version 2016 on windows 10 home.	Driftwood (5551)
1435594	2017-05-21 23:28:00	I assume you have actually got an account With MS/one drive ? and its signed in ? If so go to Onedrives site, make sure you can sign in there onedrive.live.com Assuming again you have, you can open the settings from icon in the icon tray looks like two clouds ( may have to make it visible first). In the Settings, Account, make sure its the same as the one you have.	wainuitech (129)
1435595	2017-05-22 01:44:00	Yes definitely got an account. Should have said, silly me. I've already manually saved the folders to it. It just dosent add any new ones to it automatically.	Driftwood (5551)
1435596	2017-05-22 02:18:00	If you have the onedrive cloud icon in the left pane of windows explorer right click it and select choose which folders to sync on each PC. These setting appear to be individual to the PC rather than account wide. I have 2 PC's set up to sync the pictures & documents folder and a third that only syncs documents and it works perfectly. If you've done that already then that's me out.	dugimodo (138)
1435597	2017-05-22 03:11:00	The Random Weird feature in Win10% cannot be disabled without explosives. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1435598	2017-05-22 04:52:00	If you have the onedrive cloud icon in the left pane of windows explorer right click it and select choose which folders to sync on each PC. These setting appear to be individual to the PC rather than account wide. I have 2 PC's set up to sync the pictures & documents folder and a third that only syncs documents and it works perfectly. If you've done that already then that's me out. Yep done that & its at the top left of the pane, with a green tick. If I open it has a folder called Documents with a green tick. If I open that, all the contents of my documents folder are in there, with green ticks. Does the auto upload only happen at a certain time of day?	Driftwood (5551)
1435599	2017-05-22 05:02:00	The green tick means onedrive believes it is all synced and uploaded, if not they have two curved arrows instead. Drop a single new file in there, then go log in to the web portal and see if it's there. A small file should turn up basically instantly. Also when you copy it in you should briefly see the arrows I'm describing For me I can drop a file into the onedrive pictures folder and have it upload to the cloud and download to another PC nearby in just a few seconds without any further intervention from me.	dugimodo (138)
1435600	2017-05-22 05:57:00	Yeah its doing all that ok but I have to manually copy the files, it won't auto sync.	Driftwood (5551)
1435601	2017-05-22 06:08:00	I don't follow, auto sync from where to where? how are you checking. When you say copy files manually, what are you doing. How one drive works - apologies if you know this - is it syncs the local folders you specify to the cloud and also from the cloud back to your PC. The folders are still actually local on your machine and you just use them like any other folders. The sync to the cloud and back should just happen in the background. So if you drop a file into a onedrive folder and it shows up online then it's working. One thing that might be confusing that just occured to me, the folders in one drive are not the same as the default folders windows uses. Telling it to sync your one drive "documents" folder for example will not do anything to the windows documents folder - 2 separate places. Just use the one drive folders instead of the windows one. At work for example I moved all my files from documents to the onedrive documents folder.	dugimodo (138)
1435602	2017-05-22 06:12:00	The syncing for smaller items, like alterations to a text file, or even a small picture is quick. When altering a file/program I have here that gets used daily, when I save the changes you have to be quick to see it happening blink and you miss it. As dugimodo mentions the one drive folder is watching the all the time, any changes ( once saved in the case of a word Document) are instantly synced. As an example,I just dropped a 2.9MB Photo into the one drive folder, took approx 1 second to sync. ( This one took 2 goes to capture it) :D Heres what you see --- 8061 I did try with a 1.9MB but it was so fast I couldn't capture the screen fast enough.:crying	wainuitech (129)
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