{"id":507,"date":"2017-07-06T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2018-03-14T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:18:23","slug":"onedrive-sync-now-supports-only-ntfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive Sync Now Supports ONLY NTFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/OneDriveNextGenSync.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"132\" title=\"OneDriveNextGenSync\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"OneDriveNextGenSync\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/OneDriveNextGenSync_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>An update to the OneDrive Next Gen Sync client that rolled out beginning in early January has limited where you can place the sync folder for your OneDrive files.&nbsp; The target is now required to be a New Technology File System (NTFS) formatted drive.&nbsp; When commenting on this Microsoft says that non-NTFS drives have never been supported, but that the client didn\u2019t check in the past.&nbsp; The change, according to Microsoft, is just tightening up the error checking in the OneDrive client and not implementation of a new feature.&nbsp; According to Microsoft that\u2019s why the change was released with no notice. It should be noted that OneDrive system requirements don\u2019t list the NTFS limitation.&nbsp; Resilient File System (REFS), Microsoft\u2019s newest formatting, is also not supported.&nbsp; User\u2019s should plan to update the format of their drives to NTFS if they plan to use the OneDrive Next Gen Sync client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to the OneDrive Next Gen Sync client that rolled out beginning in early January has limited where you can place the sync folder for your OneDrive files.&nbsp; The target is now required to be a New Technology File System (NTFS) formatted drive.&nbsp; When commenting on this Microsoft says that non-NTFS drives have never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OneDrive Sync Now Supports ONLY NTFS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,56],"tags":[98,99],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changes","category-office-365","tag-office_365-updates","tag-onedrive_nextgensync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}