I just upgraded to Windows 10 yesterday and now I have a serious problem with Onedrive. All of my save files for programs like Quickbooks are stored on Onedrive. Further, photos and other files that I use for my real estate business are stored on Onedrive. Many files can go as far as 15 folders deep.
Now that smart files are gone, I have no access to all of my folders in Onedrive, which means that I can no longer easily drag and drop files that I need saved on onedrive. Nor can I access my files if I need to send a file as an attachment in an email, or open up a company in Quickbooks.
Basically, the onedrive client is completely useless. Is there an alternative? What do I do? My files are way larger than my local HD space
Have no clue as to what smart files are, you should have access to your One Drive files none the less, as far as sharing goes, go to One Drive settings and set up sharing as needed.
Hello Voodoo, and welcome to windowssh blog.
You can use the tutorial below to set OneDrive to sync with All files and folders on my OneDrive. Afterwards, you should be able access anything on your OneDrive in your OneDrive folder in File Explorer.
OneDrive Selective Sync - Choose Folders in Windows 10
Allow me to further explain my problem:
1. Total Onedrive file sizes far exceed my local HD space..... Cant sync all.
2. My files are 10 to 20 folders deep. and I have thousands of files within hundreds of folders, it is impractical to choose individual files to sync.
Before, with smart files, I used to be able to "see" ALL my folders and drag and drop files and access them when I needed, since everything was "ONLINE ONLY" the files would download when I needed them locally
ok, Quickbooks, wont even open in Windows 10 now
Another option would be to use OneDrive online.
Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.
I'm screwed. This is a nightmare is there anyway to revert back to windows 8? System restore?Another option would be to use OneDrive online.
Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.
Old way:
Step 1: Open file explorer locate file and open
Step 2: modify file
Step 3: Save the file
New Way:
Step 1: Open browser, navigate to onedrive.com
Step 2: locate the file
Step 3: download the file
Step 4: open and modify the file
Step 5: Go back to onedrive.com
Step 6: re-upload the file
Step 7: find and delete the downloaded file
Am I the only person who see's anything wrong with this?
Nope, you aren't the only one Sadly it looks like there isn't a solution (yet)Am I the only person who see's anything wrong with this?
The only other option that I know of is to have a larger drive to be able to sync them all.
