Hi @trraacy,
Some users have done this by moving the data over from the other service folders (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc) into the corresponding locations in odrive. odrive attempts to reconcile the local and remote data in a way that prevents re-upload of identical data. In most cases it works well, but it will depend on a few factors, including the storage source being used.
So, for example, if you were move the contents of your Dropbox folder into odrive\Dropbox, odrive will try to reason out the state of those new files and determine if they are already synced.
The steps would work something like this (again, using Dropbox as an example):
- Close the Dropbox app
- Navigate to the odrive folder and expand only the root of the Dropbox folder. This would equate to right-clicking->sync on the Dropbox.cloudf placeholder, sliding the slider to “Nothing” and making sure both checkboxes are unchecked. This will cause odrive to expose only the root of the Dropbox folder
- Navigate to the original Dropbox folder (not the odrive one), and select all of the content inside.
- Copy all of the content selected in step 3 into the odrive\Dropbox folder, alongside the placeholder files. The copied data will parallel the placeholders and they will exist alongside each other for a brief period until odrive starts reconciling the new data.
At this point odrive will scan through all of the new data you copied in, try to determine its state, and then mark the files that already exist in the cloud as synced. Once everything looks good you can remove the local Dropbox data from the original folder. Make sure Dropbox is not running when you do this or it will pick that up as a delete.
My recommendation is to always first try this on a small subset of the data to make sure the result is what you are expecting before copying over everything.