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Jonas.W
So I'm having an issue with OneDrive.
I've set my "Documents" folder to be synced because It felt like a good idea to get saves for games backed up.
The issue I'm now having is that one game I currently play also saves its mods to this location. That folder is now up to several GB's.
This eats up most of my OneDrive storage space.
I briefly looked to see if I could just ignore that particular folder in any settings, no success.
I seemed to recall that deleting the folder from my OneDrive would also delete it from my local storage (which is god damn idiotic to be frank), which upon some websearching turned out to be the case.
I searched some more and came upon a post on this very forum where someone had a similar problem, and the advice he was given (from two different moderators) was to back up his folder locally then uncheck that folder in the OneDrive settings. This would of course delete his local folder as well (again, bloody stupid system).
I did this, and then after the folder had been deleted I proceeded to copying it back (since I actually need the mods there for the game to find them).
With the exception of the annoying red error symbol on my folder icon (even the parent folder(s)), everything was working great for about 10 seconds.
After that OneDrive started syncing that folder again, even though I initially had unchecked that folder in the settings.
When I went back in to the settings, the folder was once again checked (presumably because OneDrive thought it was a new folder) so it started syncing it again.
Only now I can't uncheck that box because it's currently on the process of syncing it and I was asked to allow it to complete the syncing process before I could unsync it (what?).
What the actual H is up with this logic? Is there a solution to my problem that doesn't involve me either unsyncing the entire parent directory (after making a local backup of course) or completely turning the - in essence - useful feature completely off?
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I've set my "Documents" folder to be synced because It felt like a good idea to get saves for games backed up.
The issue I'm now having is that one game I currently play also saves its mods to this location. That folder is now up to several GB's.
This eats up most of my OneDrive storage space.
I briefly looked to see if I could just ignore that particular folder in any settings, no success.
I seemed to recall that deleting the folder from my OneDrive would also delete it from my local storage (which is god damn idiotic to be frank), which upon some websearching turned out to be the case.
I searched some more and came upon a post on this very forum where someone had a similar problem, and the advice he was given (from two different moderators) was to back up his folder locally then uncheck that folder in the OneDrive settings. This would of course delete his local folder as well (again, bloody stupid system).
I did this, and then after the folder had been deleted I proceeded to copying it back (since I actually need the mods there for the game to find them).
With the exception of the annoying red error symbol on my folder icon (even the parent folder(s)), everything was working great for about 10 seconds.
After that OneDrive started syncing that folder again, even though I initially had unchecked that folder in the settings.
When I went back in to the settings, the folder was once again checked (presumably because OneDrive thought it was a new folder) so it started syncing it again.
Only now I can't uncheck that box because it's currently on the process of syncing it and I was asked to allow it to complete the syncing process before I could unsync it (what?).
What the actual H is up with this logic? Is there a solution to my problem that doesn't involve me either unsyncing the entire parent directory (after making a local backup of course) or completely turning the - in essence - useful feature completely off?
Continue reading...