Add Desktop to OneDrive with Microsoft Sync App (Updated)

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• Add Desktop to OneDrive for Real-time Desktop Data Sync
• How to Add Desktop to OneDrive?
• Bonus Tip: Best Way to Sync OneDrive to Another or Other Clouds
• Conclusion

Add Desktop to OneDrive for Real-time Desktop Data Sync

As we all know, files on the desktop are the most vulnerable ones and prone to loss during any accidents like a system crash due to a virus/hijack attack, software error, or wrong operation. Still, it is very convenient and we are used to saving our working changes on the desktop. Thus, it is urgent to take special protection for desktop data.

Traditionally, we may manually save a copy of what we have added on desktop to other partitions on the computer or better to external devices. Yet, this is not secure enough. On the one hand, we can’t always remember to back up every important desktop item. On the other hand, if there are a lot of files needing to be protected, it will cost a lot of time and energy.

Then, is there an easy and reliable way to do so? With the development of cloud drive storage, more and more people choose to save crucial files to online cloud. Thus, they can access files anywhere by just signing in to their cloud accounts. At the same time, cloud storage providers also provide services to back up local data (including desktop information) and save them to cloud drive.

As one of the great popular clouds, Microsoft OneDrive also offers its official App for its users. OneDrive desktop sync App can easily synchronize your computer files/folders, photos/pictures/images, videos/movies, music, documents/sheets, etc. from local to cloud side. With it, you can have your desktop folder synced to OneDrive cloud in real time.

How to Add Desktop to OneDrive?

To make use of Microsoft OneDrive desktop client, for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users, you should first of all download, install and launch it on your machine. Yet, if you are running Windows 10 operating system, OneDrive has already been installed on your computer in Partition C together with OS. You don’t have to install it again; just find it in Start and open it.

1. Click on OneDrive taskbar icon, in the pop-up window, click "More (three dots)" and select "Settings".

2. In the next pop-up window, go to "Auto Save" tab and choose "Update Folders".

3. In the next screen, tick the "Desktop" option for syncing.

Notes:✎...

If you haven’t get desktop folder synced, it will automatically tick it as well as other un-synced folders for sync task. If you don’t want to sync other folders, just uncheck them.

If you have already set desktop to real-time sync, it will tell you "Files protected".

To stop a certain folder from syncing here, just click "Stop protecting" of it.

4. Finally, click "Start protection" to add desktop to OneDrive.

Bonus Tip: Best Way to Sync OneDrive to Another or Other Clouds

The above is about how to add Desktop to OneDrive Auto Save plan, and it is quite useful for files syncing between local and OneDrive cloud. If you want to sync files from one OneDrive to another, Microsoft OneDrive software can’t help. You can either download target files from source account to local and then upload them from local to the destination cloud, or, rely on MultCloud, a third-party multiple cloud drives manager, to directly move between two OneDrive accounts.

Let's get it started.

Step 1. Visit the Multcloud website and sign up for a free account.

Step 2. Click the "Add Cloud" button and select OneDrive. Enter your OneDrive login credentials to connect your account.

Step 3. Repeat the process to add the cloud storage provider you want to sync OneDrive with (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3).

Step 4. Click the "Cloud Sync" button and select the source and target cloud storage accounts. Choose the files or folders you want to sync and set your preferences (e.g., sync direction, sync frequency). Click the "Sync Now" button to initiate the sync process.

Conclusion

OneDrive is a powerful cloud storage service that can help you stay organized, collaborate with others, and access your files from anywhere. With the above-detailed steps, you can easily synchronize desktop data to OneDrive. In addition, if you find any abnormality in OneDrive, you can use MultCloud to synchronize data to another account or other cloud account in advance to avoid data loss.