I upgraded to windows 10 and I am backing up all my files to Onedrive right away. But it looks like the default Onedrive app syncs only the ‘onedrive’ folder. Is there a option to sync other folders of my choice with Onedrive?
You will have to move all your contents to the OneDrive folder in your drive and create a symbolic link to the actual folder inside your OneDrive folder.
Open your command prompt as admin and use this command to move the files first.
move “C:\OriginalFolderPath” “C:\OnedriveFolderPath”
Once moved, use this command to create the symbolic link.
mklink /d “C:\OriginalFolderPath” “C:\OnedriveFolderPath\YourFolder”
This is a hassle anyway. I wish Microsoft could come up with a feature for OneDrive.
I tried the move command with an elevated cmd, but it shows ‘access is denied’. Googled a few answers and followed the steps and took ownership as administrator. But I still get the error message. Windows 10 is full of bugs. Sigh!
Did you try the same in PowerShell?
Use PowerShell. I too faced the same issue on Windows 10.
The second command need a prefix to use in PowerShell. It must go like this:
cmd /c mklink /d “C:\OriginalFolderPath” “C:\OnedriveFolderPath\YourFolder”
Gee!! Why didn’t I think of that? It works! It works! Thanks a ton @karthikeyankc and @SandlerCJ! All symlinks are in place and are on upload queue in Onedrive. Phew!