Resyncing previously synced files on Mac

[jacqueline]

Can anyone help me wiht my set up. I have nearly 100gb of data already on my Mac that I have synced with Dropbox and Google Drive. I really don’t want to have to unsync them all and then sync them via ODrive.

Is there any way I can just move them into the Odrive as downloaded files so that I don’t have redownload nearly 100gb of stuff?

[Tony]

Hi @jacqueline,
Please take a look at this post here for details on doing this:

Any way to map existing laptop folders already synced to my services?

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 …