{"id":331,"date":"2019-09-07T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/win10\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:07:08","slug":"using-the-onedrive-mapper-tool-to-copy-files-from-d-to-onedrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/win10\/2019\/09\/07\/using-the-onedrive-mapper-tool-to-copy-files-from-d-to-onedrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the OneDrive Mapper tool to copy files from D: to OneDrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OneDrive Mapper tool will map a drive as drive letter K: within Windows Explorer to your OneDrive for Business storage, allowing you to copy files and directories from D: drive to the K: drive using Windows Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>The OneDrive Mapper tool is called <i>FormOneDriveMapper.exe<\/i> and can be ran from S:\\SLS\\OneDriveMapper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">The biggest limitation to using the OneDrive Mapper tool is that very large files, over 4Gb in size, can&#8217;t be copied using this method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">In practise files greater than 512Mb will have an issue copying to OneDrive for Business using the OneDrive Mapper tool.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">For very large files you will notice the file copy will reach about 99% before pausing and eventually it will timeout with an error.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">If this occurs we would recommend you copy these large files using using Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See the video below showing how to use the OneDrive Mapper tool.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mfXEhWZn1CE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">If you have used the Mapper tool when copying files from D: and the Desktop please ensure you are actually copying the files and not just creating shortcuts to the files.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Shortcuts will show within OneDrive as a type &#8216;Shortcut&#8217; not &#8216;Microsoft Word Document&#8217; or whatever type of file you had meant to copy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OneDrive Mapper tool will map a drive as drive letter K: within Windows Explorer to your OneDrive for Business storage, allowing you to copy files and directories from D: drive to the K: drive using Windows Explorer. 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