There have been significant updates to both Windows and the OneDrive Client (even for Macs) and they are all good changes! Please see below for selections from Microsoft's article on syncing your Sites with your computer using the NEW OneDrive Client.
Set up syncing
- Log in to your Office 365 account and then chose the location app you want to sync from.
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On the Office 365 app launcher, choose SharePoint (or Teams), and then click the site with the files you want to sync.
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Click Documents or navigate to the subfolder you want to sync.
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Click the Sync button. (You only need to do this once on a computer to set up syncing on that computer. After you set up syncing, the files sync automatically.)
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If your browser requests permission to use "Microsoft OneDrive," confirm that this is okay.
Important: If you see a screen that says "Which library do you want to sync?", your site hasn't been set up to sync with the OneDrive sync client or you have another problem and you need to contact your IT department.
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Choose the folders that you want to sync, and then click Start sync.
The files will sync to a folder on your PC that has the name of your organization (for example, %userprofile%\Contoso). This folder is automatically added to the left pane in File Explorer. You can’t select to sync to a different location.
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To sync the files on another computer, go to that computer and follow the steps again.
Notes:
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If you see a lock icon on synced files in File Explorer, it means the files are synced read-only. You might not have permission to edit the files, or the library might require checkout or have required columns or metadata. If you change the files on your computer, the changes won’t sync.
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You can't move OneNote notebooks from one site to another on your computer, and if you move other Office files between sites, version history will be lost. To move Office files, go to the site and use the "Copy to" command.
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If a site name includes a character such as “:” that isn’t supported in folder names in Windows, files on the site can’t be synced.
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If you used the previous OneDrive for Business sync client, the folder structure for your synced folders might change when you begin syncing with the OneDrive sync client. On Windows 7 computers where you used the previous OneDrive for Business sync client, you might still see an old "SharePoint" folder under Favorites in File Explorer. You can remove the extra "SharePoint" favorite by right-clicking it and selecting Remove.
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