Syncing "Documents" folder between two PCs 100% automatically

So, did this yesterday...

Indeed, the tricky thing is ensure shortcuts offered by Windows point to the OneDrive locations, not the old local folders. ie: Where "Documents" is offered as a shortcut, it goes to the "OneDrive/Documents" not the local documents folder.

A handy tip - If you open "My PC" and there it shows links to say "My Documents" and "My Pictures" (& "My Music" etc), if you right click them you can define their "location". So you can change them from your local location to instead point to the OneDrive location. You'll get an option to also move existing data or not from the local to OneDrive folder. This at least changes these shortcuts to point to the "OneDrive" location correctly.
 
chroniclard said:
What, exactly like my instructions? :p
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Arrrrrrggghhhh - #12 = "Go to documents folder, right click, properties, location, 'Move', move folder to one drive folder."

I didn't clock that!

You know when I was doing this yesterday, and hitting the issue with the various shortcuts going to the old local location, and not the OneDrive one in stead, I even contacted Microsoft to see if they could suggest something. They couldn't.

It was only by pure chance I stumbled across that "right click, properties, location, 'Move', move folder to one drive folder." which I then did for Documents and Pictures...

Damn! If only I'd spotted cottoned onto the significance of your comment then! Doh!


Hopefully someone else doing this in the future will use that method. Indeed I'll even update the OP!
 
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