Windows Folder Properties

gjrc · 16 May 2018 at 10:01

ok,

this maybe a really stupid question but please can you help.

why can i change the location of, say, My documents through folder properties but not any sub folder in the My documents folder.

i am trying to sort One Drive personal and one drive for business to sync various different folders in My documents. if i wanted to sync all of my Documents to a single one drive account then that is easy. i just change the location of my documents to my one drive account. this then works neatly as it appears as if nothing has changed with regard my documents.i access the files as before through my documents link. however i cant seem to do this with individual folders?

thanks for any help.

g

Buffalo2102 · 16 May 2018 at 10:42

The My Documents properties you change in Explorer are not the properties of the My Documents folder. You are changing the properties of a library, which is basically just a link to the My Documents folder.

I think you can achieve what you want to by creating two new Libraries - each linking to the folders you want to sync for each account. If you right-click the Libraries link in Explorer you can create a new library. Then navigate to the folder you want to include in the library, right-click and select Include in Library-->new library name.

Once the new libraries are created, you can change their properties to point to Onedrive.

gjrc · 16 May 2018 at 11:06

Buffalo2102 said:
The My Documents properties you change in Explorer are not the properties of the My Documents folder. You are changing the properties of a library, which is basically just a link to the My Documents folder.

I think you can achieve what you want to by creating two new Libraries - each linking to the folders you want to sync for each account. If you right-click the Libraries link in Explorer you can create a new library. Then navigate to the folder you want to include in the library, right-click and select Include in Library-->new library name.

Once the new libraries are created, you can change their properties to point to Onedrive.

thanks.

i had a look at this. a new library allows me to add various locations for a folder. i am not sure this is the same thing? why don't i get the full folder options on sub folders under My Documents.

gjrc · 16 May 2018 at 11:10

i guess its because documents is a system folder?

Buffalo2102 · 16 May 2018 at 12:55

Because Documents in the explorer view is not a real folder - it's just a link to a folder on your hard drive. You can change the link to point to any other folder if you like.

The only way to get the same property options on other folders is to create new links (libraries). You can include more than one real folder in a library, s all yo would need is two new libraries.