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This is how the synchronized folder appears on the PC Syncing a specific folder from SharePoint If, instead, you decide to sync just a specific folder from your SharePoint site, by clicking the button at a folder level, it will only synchronize that folder and everything inside. OneDrive Sync of a folder within a document library The naming convention for the synchronized library on your computer is “ Site Name – Document Library Name.” For example, in my case, it is HR Team – Documents, where HR Team is the site name and Documents is the name of a document library. This is how the synchronized document library appears on the PC Syncing the entire library from SharePoint
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When you sync the whole document Library (which is probably the most common occurrence), by clicking the Sync button at a library level, it syncs the entire document library to your PC, all the folders and subfolders inside of it. If you are wondering what I am talking about, please check out this post, where I explain in great detail OneDrive Sync and how it works. So in this article, I want to explore what will happen when you Sync a folder instead of a document library and some unexpected consequences that might occur. However, one thing I did not mention before was the difference between syncing the whole library vs. I documented the mechanism of OneDrive Sync quite extensively on my blog previously.
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