OneDrive – block syncing specific file extensions
One of the main key releases customers have been waiting for has been the ability to exclude files, folders, and extensions from syncing. This is something I will explain in more depth in this section, plus some more tips and tricks for the use of OneDrive.
This setting lets you enter keywords to prevent uploading certain files to OneDrive. You can enter complete names, such as setup.exe
, or use the asterisk (*
) as a wildcard character to represent a series of characters.
In this example, it is .lnk
files that will be excluded from syncing to OneDrive for Business.
Figure 10.48: Exclude specific kinds of files from being uploaded
If you enable this setting, the sync app doesn’t upload new files that match the keywords you specified. No errors appear for the skipped files, and the files remain in the local OneDrive folder. The OneDrive sync app must be restarted after this setting is enabled for the...