Windows 10: installing onedrive on new computer

Discus and support installing onedrive on new computer in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Hi,I am getting a new laptop. I have nearly one TB of one drive files in the cloud and about half of them already on my windows 10 laptop. I want to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by rfarber, Feb 12, 2024.

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    Hi,I am getting a new laptop. I have nearly one TB of one drive files in the cloud and about half of them already on my windows 10 laptop. I want to transfer the already downloaded files to my new computer. I DO NOT want to download all of those files onto the new computer with onedrive as it is a huge amount of data and will take too long. Rather, it is very easy for me to transfer the files manually from my hard drive and THEN to sync. I am just afraid that onedrive will recognize these as NEW files rather than the old files that are already in one drive. This would result in all of thos

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