Windows 10: OneDrive offline storage?

I may be confused as well, because I've used OneDrive from 7 up through 10 now. It has worked the same for me each step of the way, keeping my local files and cloud files completely synced across multiple computers. I always choose a different location for the OneDrive folder during the install/config, but it works the way the OP is looking for by default.

 

The Start 10 app has three separate options for how the Start menu will appear. 1)W7, 2)Modern 3)W10 with tiles. I simply went for the Modern and with the early bird release I got the "Trekker" Start button whereas when just getting in a new 10 laptop and getting it again for that the Trekker no more it seems. They had some other button.

As for location you will find the OneDrive folder easily by simply choosing the "Open file location" whenever you are unsure about anything. You can repin the main executable by simply creating a new desktop shortcut and right clicking on that to pin to the Start(as well as Start 10 here) and/or taskbar. That is found in "C:\users\user account\AppData\Local\microsoft\OneDrive".

Now since I keep everything stored and backed up locally I actually never use it. It's simply much easier to create custom folders I can store sub folders full of things under and even see sub folders under the sub folders and still back everything up on the storage drives.

 

Thanks, everybody for the help. Like I said at the beginning I'm probably missing something stupid.

Ok, I got it! For some reason I thought the OneDrive folder was in the Documents folder in W8. I obviously was wrong. I'm almost happy but it does seem like you have to go to a lot more trouble to move the OneDrive folder off the boot drive in W10 that W8.1. But then I got a 240GB boot SSD on all my systems so space is no longer an issue.

I have 6 PC's on my home network and use one of them for a home server so I really don't need OneDrive to share across the PC's. But "it's there" so I use it for RoboForm and my movie catalog. I also use Macrium Reflect to back everything up everywhere including the OneDrive folders!!

As far as Start 10 goes, I was a big fan of Start 8 and had it on every W8 machine I touched. When W10 came along and Stardock wanted another $3 or $4 per machine I decided to go with MSFT's approach. Probably a mistake but with all the updates and changes to W10 early on I thought I'd minimize the variables.

 

Stardock's Start10 you might have been thinking of the previous Start8 seeing a $3 tag since Start10 is $4.99 at the present time. Here's how the options look.





And when just now switching over to the W10 option guess where OneDrive was found which you should seen there as well with the default 10 AllApps?!





As far as Location I had an accident some time back where I dragged a temp folder onto the OneDrive icon when trying to cross over that to a second explorer window and didn't know where it ended up! The actual sub folder location which isn't under the AppData where you see a lengthy list of az, bw, cx, etc. small subs having two letter named sub folders those simply being examples as well as a couple of subs for the msu and exe files and configuration while the properties still shows it being under "C:\users\user account\OneDrive".





I verified that being the exact location by opening up a new explorer window to browse right to it and examine the contents.
Another installation location is under "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft OneDrive" simply having an empty sub folder there placed by the Windows installer. That I mention as simply being a record for the Windows installer since it seems to lack any other purpose.