This might sound a bit complicated. I need to explain the history of my problem.
- Few years ago I found a helpfull hint to get your local pictures folder included in onedrive by adding a hard link with mklink. This worked fine!
- For some (dumb) reason I yesterday didn't remember the smart solution and deleted the 'pictures' shortcut (mklink result) from the onedrive folder.
- Onedrive asked me: do you want to remove all the pictures from onedrive? I realised I made a mistake and chose 'recover'. Onedrive did this, but... made a normal folder 'pictures' in my onedrive folder.
- So now I have c:\users\myname\pictures AND c:\users\myname\onedrive\pictures. These folders are now independant from each other. I want the latter be a mklink folderlink to the first.
What I Tried:
- remove the pictures folder in onedrive and replace it with a mklink shortcut. That doesn't work, because onedrive wants to remove all pictures from cloud (and that 250Gb). Even when pausing syncing, that doesn't work
- create a new symbolic link in onedrive: c:\users\myname\onedrive\picturesmirror ; pause syncing; create the same folder oneline in onedrive; move online all files from pictures to picturesmirror. Resume syncing. That doesn't work: onedrive says: there are local folders in picturesmirror with same name (duh.. that's what I intended..) and onedrive renames all the local folders to xxxxx_localcomputername.
Of course I can remove everything from onedrive and start over with the mklink, but I'ld like to avoid the 250gb upload.
Any smart clues?
Appreciated!