Now that the shortcuts have doubled up, you’re eating up space and muddying the OneDrive environment. What you are not realizing is that this newly registered profile on the loaner computer is creating duplicate shortcuts in OneDrive. You sign into the loaner using your regular profile that is synced with OneDrive. Well, you’re there and you certainly don’t want to travel back home to gather your laptop. So, you borrow a loaner computer from IT to work for the day.

Picture this common scenario: you’ve traveled to your office only to realize you’ve forgotten your computer at home (this has happened to me more than I care to admit). I was using PST files to store old emails when my administrator reprimanded me for having used over a Terabyte of space. Turns out, my PST files had been duplicating in OneDrive each time I applied an update. It wasn’t the most pleasant conversation, and it was one that could have been easily avoided had PSTs been prevented from syncing with OneDrive.Īnother instance where blocking certain files from syncing with OneDrive can be beneficial pertains to shortcuts. I found this out the hard way in a previous role. Here’s the issue: When a PST file is synced to OneDrive it has the potential to duplicate each time it is modified. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this method, until the file sync with OneDrive occurs. An employee, not wanting to lose important messages from the past can create a PST to ensure continued access of these old emails. In my personal experience, Personal Storage Table files may cause issues when syncing with OneDrive.Ī PST is commonly used when a company sets a max threshold of time to store old emails in Outlook in the interest of saving space. Fortunately, Intune has a manageable solution.Ĭommon File Types You May Want to Prevent from Syncing to OneDrive There are a variety of reasons to halt certain files from syncing. Perhaps the files are eating up too much space or maybe they are just meant to be kept in an isolated environment, making the sync problematic.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve encountered the issue of unwanted files syncing with OneDrive.

How to stop onedrive from syncing