Erroneously synced too many directories...

[JosN1]

My installation should be synchronizing only one subfolder to my laptop. It was not syncing (Fedora 35), so I thought I was manually forcing a synchronization. Instead, I had begun to sync all of my OneDrive files. I interrupted the downloading before it completed. I would now like to reconfigure the app so that only that one subfolder is synchronized and no other OneDrive folders are within the sync scope. How can I do this? (I would like to avoid uninstalling, reinstalling, and reconfiguring.) Help, please.

[abraunegg]

@JosN1
To resolve your issue:

• Use onedrive --display-config to understand your configuration
• Use onedrive --synchronize --dry-run to validate your configuration is doing what you want it to do
• Review https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/master/docs/USAGE.md to configure your client

[JosN1]

Finally getting to this.... Thank you for your earlier response. If I want to sync only OneDrive/Documents/'specific-directory', is there a way to have the onedrive client look only to that directory for syncing, or must I exclude all other directories in my client config? I performed a selective directory sync and it worked as expected, but when I perform a dry run it syncs the whole OD footprint.

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[abraunegg]

@JosN1

If I want to sync only OneDrive/Documents/'specific-directory', is there a way to have the onedrive client look only to that directory for syncing, or must I exclude all other directories in my client config?

Please read https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/master/docs/USAGE.md in regards to the following options:

• 'sync_list'
• --single-directory

I performed a selective directory sync and it worked as expected, but when I perform a dry run it syncs the whole OD footprint

Potentially you were not using the right commands, for example:
Dry run + Single Directory Sync: Use onedrive --synchronize --single-directory 'path/to/directory' --dry-run
Single Directory Sync: Use onedrive --synchronize --single-directory 'path/to/directory'

The only difference between the two is the addition | removal of --dry-run