{"id":2820,"date":"2023-10-09T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2023-10-09T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T17:50:15","slug":"backing-up-office-365-onedrive-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Office 365 OneDrive files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was looking for a good way to do this immediately following the issues I hit changing the username domain on Office 365.<\/p>\n<p>After experimenting with doing large zip downloads to back up locally, which was intermittent with large downloads, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/save-disk-space-with-onedrive-files-on-demand-for-windows-0e6860d3-d9f3-4971-b321-7092438fb38e\"><strong>this post here<\/strong><\/a> and I did the following, do force all OneDrive files to be synched locally all the time:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I unlinked OneDrive by visiting Account under settings and clicking &#8220;unlink this PC&#8221;. I then visited the OneDrive local folder root, which was under c:\\Users\\SteveW\\OneDrive (for my free hotmail OneDrive) and\u00a0 &#8220;c:\\Users\\SteveW\\OneDrive &#8211; Salient Soft&#8221; for my Office 365 business account, and moved them along with all the files, to the correspponding directory on the D Drive. I then visited One Drive again in the system tray and re-added the account\/username, picking the link to browse for a different folder, and browsed for the new folder. When I did this it warned that files were already present, which was fine as I had just moved them, so I told it to continue. This allowed me to move from the default drive to my preferred non-system drive which had more disk space.<\/li>\n<li>I again visited OneDrive in the system tray, and opened Settings, then selected Sync and backup on the left menu, and picked advanced settings<\/li>\n<li>I then visited Files on-demand (noting the help link which is the above post), and selected &#8220;Download all files&#8221;. Once I allowed this to synchronise fully, after a few hours, all the files were downloaded locally.<\/li>\n<li>I then just needed to do local backups as normal, as my local copies of the cloud would be fully up to date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a good way to do this immediately following the issues I hit changing the username domain on Office 365. After experimenting with doing large zip downloads to back up locally, which was intermittent with large downloads, I found this post here and I did the following, do force all OneDrive files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,233,41,230],"tags":[40,16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}