Two Folders: same content.

[apolo20y3]

Hi! I'm using the client. At the present time I have in my home directory two folders related to OneDrive: /home/OneDrive and /home/OneDriveusername. Checking the GUI program, I can see that the one that is being synchronized is /home/OneDrive, so I do not know what to do with the second one. Is there a method or something I can do to verify the /home/OneDriveusername directory is now just a folder with the content downloaded but not in sync so that I could delete the whole folder without risking to lose data? Thanks a lot!

[abraunegg]

The question would be when was /home/OneDriveusername created? What is its time stamp and when was content in it last modified.

This client uses the 'sync_dir' configuration option to determine what path is used to sync the data to.

All configurations are stored in ~/.config/ .. usually under the 'onedrive' folder - but if you have multiple configurations, you will have multiple configuration folders.

If you only have one configuration folder, then I would validate that the application, when using onedrive --display-config matches your current environment.

You can also use rsync with the --dry-run command to to simulate syncing the contents of one folder to another. This will show you the differences between the folders without actually copying or deleting any files.

rsync -av --dry-run --delete /home/OneDrive/ /home/OneDriveusername

This command will list the files that would be deleted or copied to make /home/OneDriveusername identical to /home/OneDrive/. If rsync shows that all the files in /home/OneDriveusername are present in /home/OneDrive/ and are newer, then /home/OneDriveusername likely contains only older content.

Between all of these checks you can determine if /home/OneDriveusername is safe to remove.

[apolo20y3]

Okey, solved it! Thank you so much!