17 Jun How to sync any folder on your PC with OneDrive

At the beginning of the year, I decided upon using [OneDrive](https://onedrive.live.com/) as my cloud backup solution. OneDrive is more of a cloud *storage* provider, but it can also be used for backups with some simple tweaks! I was originally deciding between [Backblaze](https://www.backblaze.com/), [Dropbox](https://dropbox.com), and [Drive](https://drive.google.com). I wasn't too happy with pricing for the latter two. Backblaze seemed interesting with its "just-backup-everything" approach, but I later chose OneDrive to also get Office 365 for free. One of the problems I immediately ran into was the fact that OneDrive is a storage provider and not a backup provider. OneDrive installs itself into the user folder in Windows. From there, you can just drag and drop any files you want into the OneDrive folder, and it'll automatically be synced with your account. This is simple and seems to work well in most use cases. However, for people who already have their important pictures and files and documents in a preexisting folder hierarchy, this doesn't work well. In addition, if you're like me and have a small `C:\` drive for Windows and one or more large HDDs for storing files, you'll know how nearly impossible it is to just move everything into the OneDrive folder—especially considering that OneDrive is 1TB of storage space!