It lets you automatically synchronize files and folders with Dropbox cloud storage and with your other devices. Long story short – you have to be really careful when using both Add Shortcut to OneDrive and OneDrive Sync.This app is an automatic file sync and backup tool. I wish the error message allowed for this graceful workaround instead of unsyncing the whole damn library. Then wait a minute so that OneDrive for Business “catches up and tries to resync”, the error message and the red X over the cloud icon will then go away. To prevent this disaster from happening, what you need to do is go to your OneDrive for Business, and remove the Shortcut from there. When you press this button, it stops the synchronization of the ENTIRE SharePoint Document Library! So in an instant and most of the time, unintentionally, you will stop the sync of the entire library! This will lead to loss of data and any changes you make going forward!!! The problem with this specific message is that to resolve the conflict, it is asking you to Unsync conflicting folder. In both cases above, you will get this lovely message: Unable to sync shortcut.
You’re already syncing a shortcut to a folder from this shared library. You will get this lovely message: Sorry, we can’t sync this folder. You then try to sync the SharePoint Document library where the shortcut was created from.You synchronized your OneDrive for Business first.You know how in movies, when there is a scary scene approaching, you typically hear the corresponding music that warns you that something bad or scary is about to happen? Well, this is the kind of scene in my post where such music would be appropriate. Once again – no issues here.Īnd this brings us to the third and fourth scenarios. It will appear as a folder icon with a person icon overlaid on top of it. The folder or a library that you happened to bookmark from SharePoint will be synchronized as well. If you Added a shortcut to OneDrive and then decided to synchronize just OneDrive for Business (but not the Document library you created a shortcut from) using OneDrive Sync, you will get your OneDrive for Business files and folders synchronized locally to your PC. You synchronized just your OneDrive for Business ( but not the SharePoint document library where the shortcut was created from).…and your Synchronized Document Library will appear in your list of synchronized Document Libraries locally on your PC. When you Add a shortcut to OneDrive – the link will appear in your OneDrive for Business Application… You synchronized just the SharePoint Document Library ( but not OneDrive for Business).You Added a shortcut to OneDrive for one of the folders.Let me explain the various scenarios to you. The experience for you will depend on what exactly it is that you synchronize. The confusion occurs when you use both Add Shortcut to OneDrive and OneDrive Sync together. So far, so good, right? Well, let me complicate things a bit for you. How do Add Shortcut to OneDrive and OneDrive Sync work together? In contrast, the latter takes care of the synchronization (download and sync) of SharePoint document libraries as well as OneDrive for Business to the user’s computer (desktop). So the primary difference between Add Shortcut to OneDrive and OneDrive sync is that the former does not sync anything to your computer it just creates a link/bookmark to the content in your OneDrive for Business.
What is the difference between Add Shortcut to OneDrive and OneDrive Sync? And, of course, I documented this feature as well for you here. I explained this feature in great detail here.Īdd Shortcut to OneDrive is a new feature recently added to SharePoint Document Libraries that allows users to bookmark folders within a library or an entire library to their OneDirve, making the shortcut available within the OneDrive application.
SYNC VS ICEDRIVE INSTALL
OneDrive sync is the application you install on your computer that allows you to synchronize the entire library to your computer and be able to access the files from the convenience of your Windows Explorer or a Mac. Let’s start with OneDrive Sync since it has been around for a while.
0 kommentar(er)
