USER FILESPrivate preview

Move Documents, Desktop and any folder you name to OneDrive

RealMigrator copies the folders your project chooses into each user's OneDrive while they work, keeps the copy current until the final date and stays out of the way of a busy line.

2,000 kbit/s per PC by default
One-Way Sync, Copy or Move
No OneDrive sign-in on the old PC

FOLDER LISTS

Name the folders once per project

A catalog names a folder, the place it lands and the files that go. Folders are named the way Windows names them, :Documents or :Desktop, so RealMigrator finds them wherever that PC keeps them. Filters work as an include list or as an exclude list. Documents\Private and Desktop\Private stay on the device by default, together with Windows, Program Files, the recycle bin and the other system folders nobody wants in their OneDrive.

The default catalog as the portal ships it.

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Decide what a deleted file means

Every catalog has a sync type. Pick one, delete a file on the PC and run the next pass.

On the PC

budget-2023.xlsx
offer-q3.docx
team-photo.jpg
notes.txt

In OneDrive

budget-2023.xlsx
offer-q3.docx
team-photo.jpg
notes.txt

The folder is in sync. Delete a file on the PC, then run the next pass.

One-Way Sync is the default. Example data.

LARGE FILES

Large files are uploaded in pieces

A large file goes straight to OneDrive in chunks. To Azure Blob Storage or a file share, files over 4 MB travel in blocks of 1 MB, and after a change only the blocks that changed are sent again. Long uploads are saved every 10 minutes and continue where they stopped, after a pause, a lost connection or a restart.

Watch a PST go up block by block

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How the client treats slow and metered lines

Every upload is measured. Move the slider to the speed of a line and see what a PC does on it with the default settings.

Measured line speed (kbit/s)

6,000 kbit/s

Windows marks the connection as meteredFinal run

Capped

Faster than the limit. The client pauses so it averages 2,000 kbit/s.

Uploads use about 2,000 of 6,000 kbit/s

Defaults shown. All of them can be changed per project, and by script per group or time of day. In the final run the metered rule no longer applies: the final run uploads on any connection.

TIMING

When the client checks for changes

RealMigrator works in rounds, not in one long copy job. That is why the file a user saves five minutes before the final run still makes it.

When the client checks for changes
Moment	When
Check-in with the portal	Every 30 minutes by default, sooner while a round still has work left
A folder that still uploads	Taken up again after 15 minutes
A folder that is in sync	Checked for changes once an hour
The full folder scan	Repeated once a day
The final run	One fresh scan and a complete pass, on or after the group's final date

DESTINATIONS

Where the files land

OneDrive
The default. Files land in the user's own OneDrive, under a folder you name such as "files from LAPTOP-0412". The old PC needs no OneDrive sign-in.
Azure Blob Storage
RealMigrator's storage or your own Azure storage account, for data that should wait somewhere neutral before it moves on.
A file share
A local path or a file server, for projects that collect data before the cloud is ready for it.

DETAILS

Power mode, error limit and reset code

Power mode
When switched on, RealMigrator keeps the PC awake while it works, so a laptop does not fall asleep halfway through a final run.
Error limit
After more than 20 errors in one run a module stops and reports them, instead of failing on every file of a broken folder.
Reset code
Change the reset code and every PC discards its saved state at its next check-in. A clean restart without touching a device.

Begin with one group and two folders

In the private preview, a project starts with Documents and Desktop for one group, watches the first uploads in the portal and adds folders as it learns. Access is by invitation after a short qualification.

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