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One drive confusion in windows 10
In setting up OneDrive there are two choices for which folders and
files are to be synced The first is ....all available files and folders.... The second is any or all of a short list of folders, i.e. desktop, documents, photos...etc The first seems to imply everything on the computer which would include lots of junk I don't need. The second is limited to a select few folders and does not allow adding folders. I want to include the Downloads folder I have searched the Internet and no one has addressed this. Any comment/suggestions? Confused.....Ben |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
Bentot wrote:
In setting up OneDrive there are two choices for which folders and files are to be synced The first is ....all available files and folders.... The second is any or all of a short list of folders, i.e. desktop, documents, photos...etc The first seems to imply everything on the computer which would include lots of junk I don't need. The second is limited to a select few folders and does not allow adding folders. I want to include the Downloads folder I have searched the Internet and no one has addressed this. Any comment/suggestions? Confused.....Ben In the past, OneDrive only synchronized the local host to the server for your account on those files in the local host's own OneDrive folder. Nowhere else. Microsoft decided to emulate Google Drive and synchronize the Documents, Pictures, and other "special" folders. Those special folders is what the "All available files and folders" option. Typical of Microsoft, they badly name the options and their products. OneDrive will not synchronize ever folder and every file within to your OneDrive account. Just the special folders are included; that is, the folders the Microsoft decided are important. If you don't want the special folders synchronized to your OneDrive account on the server, deselect that option. Then just pick the folders in the files or folders under the "Only sync these folders" which are those only in the local OneDrive folder. Alas, because Microsoft decides what can be included, you cannot select any files and folders outside of those within the local OneDrive folder (unless you elect to include the special folders). In contrast, Google Drive lets you select which of the special folders to include and any other folders in any other path and even on other drives to sync to your online account. |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:07:00 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Bentot wrote: In setting up OneDrive there are two choices for which folders and files are to be synced The first is ....all available files and folders.... The second is any or all of a short list of folders, i.e. desktop, documents, photos...etc The first seems to imply everything on the computer which would include lots of junk I don't need. The second is limited to a select few folders and does not allow adding folders. I want to include the Downloads folder I have searched the Internet and no one has addressed this. Any comment/suggestions? Confused.....Ben In the past, OneDrive only synchronized the local host to the server for your account on those files in the local host's own OneDrive folder. Nowhere else. Microsoft decided to emulate Google Drive and synchronize the Documents, Pictures, and other "special" folders. Those special folders is what the "All available files and folders" option. Typical of Microsoft, they badly name the options and their products. OneDrive will not synchronize ever folder and every file within to your OneDrive account. Just the special folders are included; that is, the folders the Microsoft decided are important. If you don't want the special folders synchronized to your OneDrive account on the server, deselect that option. Then just pick the folders in the files or folders under the "Only sync these folders" which are those only in the local OneDrive folder. Alas, because Microsoft decides what can be included, you cannot select any files and folders outside of those within the local OneDrive folder (unless you elect to include the special folders). In contrast, Google Drive lets you select which of the special folders to include and any other folders in any other path and even on other drives to sync to your online account. Thank you for the informative reply. I subscribed to Office 360 (which I rarely use can do without) and 1TB of One drive (which doesn't do what I want). I think I will terminate the subscription and check out Goggle Drive and Dropbox. Ben |
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:53:27 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Google is cheaper ... until you get to their 2TB plan which is the same price as Microsoft's 1TB plan but includes Office 365. Just remember that online storage is slow: slow to download and even much slower to upload (since most users have asynchronous downstream versus upstream bandwidths). s/asynchronous/asymmetrical |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:53:27 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Google is cheaper ... until you get to their 2TB plan which is the same price as Microsoft's 1TB plan but includes Office 365. Just remember that online storage is slow: slow to download and even much slower to upload (since most users have asynchronous downstream versus upstream bandwidths). s/asynchronous/asymmetrical Correct, but doesn't the string replace require a trailing slash, and perhaps the g global switch since a line range wasn't specified, or a line range (without the g switch since the first occurrence on the line is the only one)? |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
VanguardLH wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:53:27 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Google is cheaper ... until you get to their 2TB plan which is the same price as Microsoft's 1TB plan but includes Office 365. Just remember that online storage is slow: slow to download and even much slower to upload (since most users have asynchronous downstream versus upstream bandwidths). s/asynchronous/asymmetrical Correct, but doesn't the string replace require a trailing slash, No, the trailing slash is not required. and perhaps the g global switch since a line range wasn't specified, or a line range (without the g switch since the first occurrence on the line is the only one)? The 'g' global switch is not needed, because there's only one occurence (of 'asynchronous'), but indeed a line range (1,$) is required, unless the cursor happens to be on the relevant line. Pedantic? Moi!? |
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:53:27 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Google is cheaper ... until you get to their 2TB plan which is the same price as Microsoft's 1TB plan but includes Office 365. Just remember that online storage is slow: slow to download and even much slower to upload (since most users have asynchronous downstream versus upstream bandwidths). s/asynchronous/asymmetrical Correct, but doesn't the string replace require a trailing slash, No, the trailing slash is not required. and perhaps the g global switch since a line range wasn't specified, or a line range (without the g switch since the first occurrence on the line is the only one)? The 'g' global switch is not needed, because there's only one occurence (of 'asynchronous'), but indeed a line range (1,$) is required, unless the cursor happens to be on the relevant line. Pedantic? Moi!? No. It's been a long time since I've been in VIM to do those searches. |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
VanguardLH wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 12:53:27 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: Google is cheaper ... until you get to their 2TB plan which is the same price as Microsoft's 1TB plan but includes Office 365. Just remember that online storage is slow: slow to download and even much slower to upload (since most users have asynchronous downstream versus upstream bandwidths). s/asynchronous/asymmetrical Correct, but doesn't the string replace require a trailing slash, No, the trailing slash is not required. and perhaps the g global switch since a line range wasn't specified, or a line range (without the g switch since the first occurrence on the line is the only one)? The 'g' global switch is not needed, because there's only one occurence (of 'asynchronous'), but indeed a line range (1,$) is required, unless the cursor happens to be on the relevant line. Pedantic? Moi!? No. It's been a long time since I've been in VIM to do those searches. Are you implying there are *other* editors!? :-) Kidding aside. vi(m) has been my favourite editor, ever since being introduced to it in the early 80s (on UNIX). Kicked edit's/edlin's/etc. butts on DOS. For me, the biggest advantage of vi(m) is that it's available on all platforms in this universe and then some. So also this article is composed with vim. Who says you can't run good software on a bad OS!? :-) As always, YMMV/YMWV. |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
On 7 Jun 2019 18:53:04 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
So also this article is composed with vim. tin on Cygwin? Respect! |
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One drive confusion in windows 10
mechanic wrote:
On 7 Jun 2019 18:53:04 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: So also this article is composed with vim. tin on Cygwin? Respect! I come from a notes/notesfiles [1] [2] background and later switched to tin and never looked back. When I got my own computer, I compiled/built tin from source. Later/now, I just use the tin Cygwin package. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=tin%3A&arch=x86_64 So that once more proves that one *can* run good software on a bad OS! :-) [1] http://tin.org/history.html "tin was based on tass, a newsreader written by Rich Skrenta. tass itself was inspired by notesfiles, a public domain UNIX version of PLATO Notes written by Ray Essick and Rob Kolstad at the University of Illinois back in 1982." [2] No, *not* *Lotus* Notes! :-( c.q. :-) |
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