Windows 10: "change location of onedrive" tutorial leaving me stuck at Pin to QA

I have done it exactly as written and have tried it on two different pc's. Both are running win10 1709. I will do it again just to double check.

But tell me something; if I were successful at the move would I still be seeing OndDrive on dthe C: drive? I get a terbyte of space on OneDrive; does that mean I need a one TB + C: drive?

 

Whichever folder you setup OneDrive to use at step 12 should be the one your OneDrive files are saved at.

You would only need a drive large enough to be able to save you OneDrive files on. If you have 50 GB of files, then you would need at least that much free space on the hard drive. It doesn't matter how much space your online OneDrive has available.

 

Here is a summary of efforts; I repeated this many times and only had success once but not completely. I was able to select "move" but disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

summary starts

on startup my onedrive icon is greyed out.

went to tutorial "how to turn on or off...sign into win10"
Onedrive was set to "startonedrive...on this pc"
the registry key data value was as in the tutorial

reset onedrive per this command
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset
this(according to one guru) makes OD icon disappear (it did) and should reappear in a few min.
it did not. So in run window enter this command
"%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe"

This command apparently brings up a "set up one drive" dialog with a request to 'enter email address' which i did and clicked on the "sign in" box
something was loaded and a password was requested. I entered my live password and a

"This is your OneDdrive folder" dialog came up and told me my one drive folder was at

"C:\users\Tom_B\OneDrive" under which was a link "Change Location" and then a box "next"
I did not want to "change location" here, I wanted to follow the tutorial. So I hit "next"

dialog comes up "Files already exist in this folder" with options "choose new location" or "Use this location" again I wanted to follow tute so I selected "use this locatioh"
there was a signal it was loading then a "welcome dto onedrive"with instruct to drag items into one drve folder and a proceed arrow which I clicked.

New dialog "all your files, ready, and on-demand" online,on this device and an option mark your important files. again proceed

new dialog "sharae files and folders" and a graphical how to". Again proceed

dialog to get app for mobile, I was not interested. Proceeded to next dialog which says "your good to go" and an invite to "open my onedrive folder"

I did and my icon turned white and there was a burst of screen activity which ended quickly.

I assumed I was now ready to follow the tutorial

so here goes

RC on settings: dialog comes up MS onedrive
under account tab click on "unlink this PC" which I did
Up comes dialog "Unlink account on this Pc?; I click on unlink account

The "Set up Onedrive" box opens which I will leave for later action

I am now to open the location of My Onedrive folder. This was previously ID'd as
"C:\users\Tom_B\OneDrive" I notice that the location bar has a strange location in it as

"::{018d5c66-4533-4307-9b53-224de2ed1fe6} continuing on...
Select home tab and click on "move" tab and it looks like it's going to work. the move dialog is active but now I start searching for my location and maybe that's where things go wrong
and I either hit a wrong button

So I loop back to the beginning and when I get to this point i will record every move

End of summary

Final act: I seem to be having much luck proceeding from relocate options presented when I start by filling in the box you say to "wait until #9" (just after the inlink operations). As it stands now I am having relocation which seems to be working OK and if it doesn't I will get back with you.

thanks much for your patience
Tom

 

Tom,

I'm happy to hear that you have gotten it moved to where you wanted.