How to Sync and Favorite any of the Campuses Files SharePoint Folders
Favorite a SharePoint site
If you work with SharePoint or OneDrive files enough in the web browser, you may want to favorite a SharePoint site so that you can easily pull up your favorite site and not waste time typing it in and trying to search for it.
We recently made a change to our Campus SharePoint site. Now instead of one SharePoint site holding every campus, we split the site up so that each campus has their own Site. When you goto the 30-in-30 Files or any of the other campus sites, you will now see a Navbar with links to each of them!
Now it will appear in your main SharePoint "start page" (SharePoint), or "your sites".
Sync from a SharePoint Site
This guide explains how to sync files or folders under the campuses SharePoint sites. to your device. The example shown is done on a Windows PC, but the flow is very similar on MacOS. This process is similar to syncing other specific SharePoint locations/directories as well. You can reach the 30-in-30 Files SharePoint site here. It will look something like this:
We recently made a change to our Campus SharePoint site. Now instead of one SharePoint site holding every campus, we split the site up so that each campus has their own Site. When you goto the 30-in-30 Files or any of the other campus sites, you will now see a Navbar with links to each of them!
Since we want to sync files from SharePoint, we need to click on Documents. This will show us the files that are associated with the site. The site will now look like this:
This is everything under the 30-in-30 files SharePoint folder. To sync it all, we can click Sync.
This will make a request to use OneDrive, so make sure that OneDrive is running in the background.
If you don't see the OneDrive icon shown above the application is probably not running. Please press the Windows Key on your keyboard and type OneDrive and hit enter to load it up.
Now in Windows Explorer, this shows up under my list of SharePoint Sites as 30-in-30 - Documents. The SharePoint sites you sync will appear above your OneDrive folder in the navigation pane of Explorer.
Pick and Choose to Sync specific content in a Site.
You may be interested in only syncing select content under a certain folder of a Site and not having to worry about syncing the rest of the Site files that you won't be accessing at all. This might be useful for bigger Sites like the Bath Campus site if you don't need to be syncing down things like media files which can be taxing on your computer whenever a sync occurs.
To sync only certain folders under a site, there are a couple ways of going about it. I recommend the first method if you are interested in only one or two folders/files for a site. The second method is better for granularly choosing several folders that are nested or unnested, and is helpful in preventing cluttering up your list of syncing SharePoint sites in the Windows Explorer navigation pane. This method is also helpful when you already have a Site synced to your computer, but you decided you don't need to use as many files.
You will have to wait until any Sync jobs in progress have finished before clicking OK. (See the note above) Once you have chosen what you want to be syncing AND no sync jobs are going, click OK. This should start removing any unchecked folders from your computer! Depending on the size of the site/amount of content you are desyncing, this may take a while, so be prepared to leave your computer plugged in to power.