Tell Robocopy to Skip OneDrive Placeholders

Question

_{Sunday, September 24, 2017 1:35 PM | 1 vote}

I use robocopy /mir to backup my local files. I also use OneDrive files on demand to save space. When I run robocopy, it attempts to download the onedrive placeholders. Is there a way to skip these files via robocopy command line?

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_{Sunday, September 24, 2017 6:10 PM}

Does not appear to me Robocopy understands placeholders, so guess that would need a Robocopy update for it to skip them automatically.

The way around that the folders can be excluded from Robocopy.

robocopy %USERPROFILE% C:\BackupTemp *.* /R:1 /W:0 /MIR /XD %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive

_{Wednesday, August 14, 2019 4:46 PM}

For anyone else looking for this..

The syntax shown only works when you call robocopy from cmd.exe, not from powershell because the %userprofile% syntax didn't work..  I was too lazy to find the equivalent, so I seem to be having luck with using powershell to call cmd.exe and running the command like this:

cmd.exe /c robocopy %USERPROFILE% C:\BackupTemp *.* /R:1 /W:0 /MIR /XD %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive