One Drvie Backup of My Documents split folders

John Lenz 1,721 Reputation points
2021-03-15T21:32:42.82+00:00

Windows10 Home 20H2
I chose backup my Documents to One Drive. When I did that, 2 documents folders appeared in my profile

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Here is the contents of the "local" documents

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I added them after the "split"

Here is the new "OneDrive" documents

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These folders and files were in the "local" one before I started the backup.

Why did the new folder get created and why are my files from this PC on One Drive and not on the C drive?

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2021-03-16T15:19:32.627+00:00

    The files should be in two locations (local and OneDrive). If not you can uncheck Files-On-Demand

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    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-disk-space-with-onedrive-files-on-demand-for-windows-10-0e6860d3-d9f3-4971-b321-7092438fb38e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

    or mark it Always keep on this device
    https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2017/06/13/onedrive-files-demand-now-available-windows-insiders/

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2021-03-15T21:37:39.83+00:00

    If you uncheck this one they'll all come down to pc.

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  2. John Lenz 1,721 Reputation points
    2021-03-15T21:52:21.827+00:00

    I unchecked Files on demand. How do I setup to backup from local My Documents to One drive BUT leave files/folders on local drive?

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  3. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2021-03-15T21:59:49.223+00:00

    You'll probably always have two (or more). In my screen shot below the top one is local only, the other three are both local and OneDrive. I always uncheck Files-On-Demand because I don't care about disk space. I always want my files in multiple places.

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  4. John Lenz 1,721 Reputation points
    2021-03-15T22:07:02.673+00:00

    Yes, I see the 2. Here is my problem. I have Quicken on this system and want to backup local. When I "Choose" backup location, I only see the One Drive documents. The local folder documents seems to be passive.

    I just did the Quicken backup test to verify where the backup went.

    This is very confusing