Sync folders windows Pc#

Since you are already syncing the entire library, clicking the Sync button at a folder level won’t do anything extra. In case you sync the library first and then decide to sync the folder inside of that library – nothing will really happen. Scenario 1: Sync the document library first, then sync a folder Since nothing stops you from clicking the Sync button at both folder and library levels, I want to highlight a few unintended consequences that might occur as a result. Syncing a folder and a library together – unintended consequences

The naming convention for the synchronized folders on your computer is “ Site Name – Folder Name.” For example, in my case, it is HR Team – Clients, where HR Team is the site name and Clients is the name of a folder within the Documents library.

Sync folders windows Pc#

This is how the synchronized folder appears on the PC Syncing a specific folder from SharePoint If, instead, you decide to sync just a specific folder from your SharePoint site, by clicking the button at a folder level, it will only synchronize that folder and everything inside. OneDrive Sync of a folder within a document library The naming convention for the synchronized library on your computer is “ Site Name – Document Library Name.” For example, in my case, it is HR Team – Documents, where HR Team is the site name and Documents is the name of a document library. This is how the synchronized document library appears on the PC Syncing the entire library from SharePoint When you sync the whole document Library (which is probably the most common occurrence), by clicking the Sync button at a library level, it syncs the entire document library to your PC, all the folders and subfolders inside of it. If you are wondering what I am talking about, please check out this post, where I explain in great detail OneDrive Sync and how it works. So in this article, I want to explore what will happen when you Sync a folder instead of a document library and some unexpected consequences that might occur. However, one thing I did not mention before was the difference between syncing the whole library vs. I documented the mechanism of OneDrive Sync quite extensively on my blog previously.