OS reinstall - backup settings

[tangotonyb]

I’m about to reinstall my windows drive. My odrive folder is on a separate HDD.

If I simply reinstall odrive and login, will it pick up the sync where it left off, or will it try to DL everything from the cloud overwriting local files?

Is there a settings folder anywhere I can backup and subsequently restore?

[Tony]

Hi @tangotonyb,
Take a look at this post here for steps when trying to perform an OS reinstall:

What would be the safest method for an Windows OS reinstall?

Hi @christianorpinell, For all non-Encryptor data, you can basically just copy/move the local data over into the newly initialized odrive folder, alongside the linked storage placeholders. The steps would be: Install odrive on the new system, go through the setup process, and log back in (make sure you are logging in as the same user you were using previously). Once odrive fully initializes the go to the new odrive folder, which should now have all placeholder (.cloudf) files… Go to the old/…