# Uploading and downloading contact to Sharepoint or Onedrive

tl,dr: Don't write your own script - just use rclone, available from: https://rclone.org/

rclone:

• is FOSS
• supports numerous cloud services.
• will work cross-platform with ease (pick your OS)
• allows you to upload, download and sync
• supports maintaining directory paths

This is a good visual guide for setup: Connecting to OneDrive with RClone - Murray's Blog

A quick summary of the steps:

1. Change directory to where rclone.exe is located, and run:

rclone config

2. Select the option to make a new remote
3. Create the config, by:
   1. Giving it a name,
   2. Selecting correct storage option (38 for OneDrive/SharePoint at time of writing)
   3. Accepting defaults for client_id, client_secret
   4. Select correct region for your tenant
   5. Accept defaults for tenant
   6. Do not edit advanced config
   7. Use the web browser to automatically authenticate with your remote, and complete the authentication and permission steps.
   8. Select the correct type of connection for what you are setting up (1 for OneDrive Personal or Business, etc). Options will be available to search for a OneDrive driveid or SharePoint site if needed.
   9. Select the drive you want to use (always select the one named OneDrive (business))
   10. Enter y, or press enter to save config
   11. Enter y, or press enter to keep the remote
   12. Enter q to quit
4. Test the config by connecting to your new share, with this command:

.\rclone.exe ls RClone-Share-Name:"/path/to/destination/folder name/"

4. Start uploading your content:

.\rclone.exe copy "E:\path\to\origin\folder name"  RClone-Share-Name:"/path/to/destination/folder name/" -P --metadata --check-first --inplace -i -v

Command breakdown:

Other command switches can be found at: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/#copy-options