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Got a new PC. It had OneDrive set up as a default. After setting up the new machine, and importing all the files from my previous documents folder, I decided I wanted to copy that folder and duplicate it to a third computer. That used to be an easy process; just copy and paste the appropriate folders. It appears though that many of the files aren't actually in the documents folder.. some are just links to OneDrive.

At this point, what is the most efficient way to get all the actual documents into one folder and copy it to an external drive?

Hi Jon,

You may be the victim of Microsoft's storage sense settings, which are silently saving you space whether you wanted to or not.

It may be worth looking into storage sense settings for the equivalent of a download that retrieves the files sent to the cloud.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Hi Jon,

If I understand your situation, all the files that you want to have locally exist in your onedrive folder in the cloud,.

But currently many of your files exist only there in your onedrive cloud, with links to them on your local drive.

After you figure out the storage sense settings that led to having only links to the cloud instead of the actual files . . .

You could turn off storage sense and copy all the actual files from your onedrive in the cloud back down to a local drive.

After that, you can wipe out onedrive, set it up again, turn storage sense off, and have your files locally again.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel