OneDrive Known Folder Move (What happens if….)
Back in June the OneDrive for Business Product group began rolling out Known Folder Move which is a great feature in which you can move data from the Pictures, Documents and Desktop folders to OneDrive for Business with the click of a button. This blog is dedicated to a few ‘What happens if…’ scenarios.
What happens if you sync via Known Folder Move and you have identically named folders on your desktop AND OneDrive for Business?
The scenario is you sync your Pictures, Documents and Desktop folders via Known Folder Move and happen to already have a folder named ‘Documents’, up in your OneDrive.
Good news is, OneDrive for Business will upload the content from within your on-premises ‘Documents’ folder into the OneDrive for Business ‘Documents’ folder. Therefore, you will have a single ‘Documents’ folder that now lives in OneDrive for Business but contains the contents of both the original and on-premises folder.
This is my OneDrive cloud structure you can see it has a folder named ‘Garmin’ and inside of that is a folder named ‘Backups’
This is my laptop structure that also has a folder name ‘Garmin’ with slightly different contents. It contains two files as shown below:
After the Known Folder Move syncs it looks like this in OneDrive, you can see that the two files have been uploaded into the ‘Garmin’ folder in OneDrive (cloud) alongside the already existing ‘Backups’ folder:
What happens if there are duplicate files in the folders that are being synced?
This screenshot will appear to the end user trying to sync and also explains exactly how this problem is addressed:
You can see the files receiving the appended ‘-Copy’ via the Known Folder Move wizard like this:
What happens if you try to sync unsupported files such as .ost or .pst files?
OneDrive will present a screen like this to the end-user basically asking them to move those files out of the Known folder that they are trying to sync.
I will continue to update this blog with additional scenarios, please let me know if you have any additional scenarios you would like to address
