How to Manage Files, folders, and other documents in Microsoft OneDrive
OneDrive is almost similar to other cloud file-management
service just like Dropbox, but besides this it also lets you access your MS
Office files. If you haven’t managed your OneDrive account storage, then it
gets complicated for you to find a file stored in OneDrive storage.
So, here is how
to manage files, folders and other documents in Microsoft OneDrive!
Syncing Files, Photos, and other documents to OneDrive
From My PC:
• To sync Files,
photos or any other document to the OneDrive, the first step you have to do is
choose the files for syncing. You can also select an entire folder to sync to
OneDrive.
• Login in into the
computer you’re using OneDrive.
• Now, navigate to the
files or folder that you want to sync on OneDrive.
• Then add the files
or folders to the OneDrive location.
• Repeat the same
procedure to add more files or folders to OneDrive. If you need a new folder
for your documents, then you can create it.
From Settings:
You can also select files for syncing from Settings. This is
the second method of selecting data for synchronizing.
To directly selecting files from settings,
• On the system tray,
click to the up arrow icon.
• Here you’ll see the
OneDrive (Cloud) icon. Right-click on it.
• From the popup
options, select Settings.
• Confirm that
‘Accounts’ tab is opened.
• Now, go to ‘Choose
folders’ and then select files or folder.
Backing up files or folder to OneDrive
• The above files or
folders you’ve selected will be added to your OneDrive folder, so to view them,
go to OneDrive folder.
• If OneDrive folder
contains all the files that you want to sync then check the box of ‘Make all
files available’.
• To sync only
selected folder, tick the box ‘Make this folder visible’ for that folder only.
The selected files or folder will synchronize to your OneDrive
online storage.
Managing folders of OneDrive
• Go to OneDrive Login
page.
• Log in with your
OneDrive account’s username and password. You’ll see the files and folders
stored on your OneDrive on the next screen.
• To view items of a
folder just click on that folder to open it.
• If you want to do
anything with a file like Move, copy, delete, Rename, Download then just
right-click on that file.
• Drag a file or
folder of your system and move it ‘OneDrive page’ to directly upload them.
• To get accidentally
deleted documents you can open Recycle bin and also recover deleted file or
folder from there.
Stop Syncing
You can directly uninstall OneDrive to stop syncing files or
folders of your device. However, if you’re unable to do this or you don’t want
to uninstall OneDrive for any reason, then you can also disable syncing
manually.
To disable
syncing,
• On the system tray,
click to the up arrow icon.
• Here you’ll see the
OneDrive (Cloud) icon. Right-click on it.
• From the popup
options, select Settings.
• Go to the ‘Settings’
tab.
• And then select
‘Turn off’.
It doesn’t matter on which platform you’re, either you’re on
Windows, Mac, laptop, or mobile device. You can manage your online OneDrive
account from any of them.
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