Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

74 CHAPTER 5 | Connecting to the Internet and cloud services small SSD as the system drive and a much larger data drive, for example—now is the time to click Change Location and specify that alternative folder. After you click Next, you’re given the option to choose which files are synced to your local folder. The default setting is Sync All Files And Folders In My OneDrive. That’s fine if you store a relatively small collection of documents, photos, and music files in the cloud. But if your cloud storage is overstuffed and your free space for local storage is small, that option won’t work. The OneDrive setup wizard does the math and tells you whether your selection will fit on the device you’re setting up. Figure 5-8 shows a particularly dramatic example, with roughly 700 GB of files in the cloud but only about 64 GB of free space on the local drive. Figure 5-8: On this Windows 10 PC, the default option to sync all files and folders won’t work. The negative number after the label “Remaining space on C:” means not enough local storage space is available. When the OneDrive setup wizard detects that you don’t enough space to sync all files and folders, as is the case in Figure 5-8, the Next button is dimmed and you can’t click it. The only way to proceed is to clear the Sync All Files And Folders In My OneDrive box and then select individual folders that will fit. When the total amount of space used by the selected files and folders is smaller than the remaining space, you can click Next and complete the setup. You can change these settings any time by right-clicking the OneDrive icon in File Explorer’s navigation pane and then clicking Choose OneDrive Folders To Sync. After setting up a personal OneDrive folder, the sync process begins automatically. To monitor its progress, click the cloud icon in the notification area. That displays a running total, like the one shown here. (If you allow the mouse pointer to hover over the OneDrive icon and don’t click, you can see an alternative version of this progress message that includes the current download speed.)