Windows 10: Change Location of OneDrive Folder in Windows 10

How to: Change Location of OneDrive Folder in Windows 10

How to Change the Location of your OneDrive Folder in Windows 10


OneDrive is a free online storage service that comes bundled with Windows 10. You can use OneDrive with your Microsoft account to save your files there and you'll be able to get to them from any PC, tablet, or phone.

Windows 10 syncs your OneDrive online with the OneDrive folder on your PC.

By default, Windows stores your OneDrive folder in your account's %UserProfile% folder (ex: "C:\Users\Brink").

You can change where files in this OneDrive folder are stored to another place on the hard drive or another drive.

This tutorial will show you how to change the default location of your OneDrive folder to where you want in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1. Right click or press and hold on the OneDrive icon on the taskbar notification area, click/tap on the menu (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)

*note If OneDrive is currently not running to show this icon, then run: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe



2. Click/tap on the Account tab, and click/tap on the Unlink this PC link under OneDrive. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Unlink account to confirm. (see screenshot below)



4. OneDrive will now be step 9 below. (see screenshot below)



5. Open the location (ex: "%UserProfile%") of where your OneDrive folder is in File Explorer, click/tap on the Home tab, and click/tap on the Move to button in the ribbon. (see screenshot below)



6. Click/tap on Choose location in the drop down. (see screenshot below)



7. Browse to and select the location (ex: "E:" drive) where you want to move your OneDrive folder, and click/tap on Move. (see screenshot below)



8. The OneDrive folder and all of its contents will now start moving to the new location (ex: "E:" drive). (see screenshot below)



9. When it has finished moving, return to the step 4 above, enter the email address for your Microsoft account, and click/tap on Sign in. (see screenshot below)



10. Enter the password for your Microsoft account, and click/tap on Sign in. (see screenshot below)



11. If you have turned on two-step verification for your Microsoft account, select how (ex: text) you want to receive your code, fill out any other required information, and click/tap on Send code. (see screenshot below)




A) Enter the code you received from Microsoft, and click/tap on Submit. (see screenshot below)




12. Click/tap on the Change location link. (see screenshot below)



13. Browse to the location (ex: "E:" drive) where you moved your OneDrive folder from step 7 above, select the OneDrive folder, and click/tap on Select Folder. (see screenshot below)



14. Click/tap on Use this location. (see screenshot below)



15. Verify that the new location (ex: "E:\OneDrive") is correct, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)



16. When finished, looking through the Welcome to OneDrive guide, you can close the Microsoft OneDrive setup window. (see screenshots below)















17. Your OneDrive folder is now at the new location (ex: "E:\OneDrive" ) syncing the folders you had chosen in step 16 above. (see screenshots below)




That's it,
Shawn


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Vista Ultimate - 'User' Folder Location

No tried that.

Can copy the entire folder to D; but Windows still points to C as the location. Can change personal folders location to a folder on D;, but this still leaves hidden files etc on C;. Thus meaning there are 2 Users folders. Have managed to change the Public folder location to D;, with some registry tweaks, but this doesnt seem to work for the entire folder.

any more suggestions

 

Ten Forums - Windows 10 Help and Support Forum


I have no problems doing so.

Just to verify, are you doing all of the steps exactly in the tutorial?

It's critical that you unlink OneDrive before moving the folder, and to select the new folder location when setting up OneDrive next.

Change Location of OneDrive Folder in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Anyone know how to remove "OneDrive - For Business" from the Explorer navigation panel? I've tried just about every registry modification, and windows policy for "Onedrive" but they only seem to work for the consumer product, not for onedrive for business.

The onedrive product alone is so damn annoying and continues to load itself upon startup, even when it's explicitly remove from startup. It continues to automatically load and unload itself from within the startup folder... while I'm actively watching it load itself into the startup folder.

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

 

OneDrive File/Folder location

Hello TheOldPuterMan,

When you moved your OneDrive folder, did you do like steps 5 to 8 below to move it?

Change Location of OneDrive Folder in Windows 10