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I am planning on using this PC (windows 10) with virtual machines. This can take up several hundreds of GBs, and my OneDrive cannot store that. I plan to keep them on my Desktop, but it is being synced by OneDrive. Is it possible to turn off sharing for just ONE folder that has my Virtual Machines, and not the whole thing?

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  • I have One Drive here and I have 150 GB of Virtual Machines. I do not put Virtual Machines in my One Drive. They do need to be local to the machine or on a very (very) fast network. So just do not use One Drive for your VM's
    – anon
    Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:51
  • I'm not trying to, I just want to use a folder in my desktop and want it to not sync @John
    – randomcoder
    Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:52
  • But, I still want to sync everything else on my desktop...
    – randomcoder
    Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:52
  • I use a folder C:\Virtual Machines for this
    – anon
    Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:53
  • So basically its not possible @John ?
    – randomcoder
    Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:53

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You can right click on the root of the shared OneDrive folder (Desktop in you case) or on any sub-folders and select "Chose OneDrive folders to sync". Then you get a dialog where you can specifically say which folders, sub-folders should be synced or not...

Selective OneDrive

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Edit: if you don't see that option on folder's context menu, then right-click on the OneDrive tray icon, select Settings > Account and then you should see "Choose Folders" FromTrayIcon Also see Choose which OneDrive folders to sync

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    It does not show the option to choose onedrive folders to sync
    – randomcoder
    Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 1:41
  • See then the other way: from tray icon > Settings > Account > Choose folders
    – user2380383
    Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 9:54
  • Just realised that "Chose OneDrive folders to sync" doesn't appear if OneDrive app is not running: so in all cases (from folder context menu or from tray icon), you have to start OneDrive first.
    – user2380383
    Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 14:58

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