OneDrive is a cost-free online storage service that comes bundled with Windows or Office 365– it’s deeply integrated right into whatever in Windows and Office. Yet suppose you wish to relocate the folder to a various drive?

Depending upon how huge and also the amount of documents you’ve synced, your OneDrive folder could use up significant area on your hard disk, so if you have a 2nd and bigger hard disk drive in your computer, moving the OneDrive folder makes a great deal of feeling.

Yet don’t relocate simply for the purpose of moving it. Just move it if you truly have a demand to.

Modification Location of the OneDrive Folder

Right-click the “OneDrive” symbol in the System Tray as well as choose “Settings.” (If you don’t see it, it may be concealed. Because case, click the up arrow switch in the system tray to see the concealed icons– consisting of OneDrive).

The OneDrive Settings dialog box shows up. From the checklist of options, select “Unlink OneDrive”.

As soon as you click the choice you will certainly obtain the Welcome to OneDrive screen with a switch to “Get begun”.

Now prior to you set up the settings again, relocate the materials of the OneDrive folder that were already previously synced. Relocating the synced folders will make certain you save money on your data transfer on the data that were currently formerly synced.

Open File Explorer and also navigate to the OneDrive folder (generally in C: Users OneDrive) and also pick it. Click the “Home” tab in the traveler ribbon and pick “Move to > > Choose location.” Pick the folder location (it can be an exterior tough as well, but you need to keep the drive plugged in all the moment, which is not sensible) where you require to conserve your OneDrive files in the future.

Return to the OneDrive set up screen, choose “Get begun,” and sign right into OneDrive once again. When you check in, OneDrive will certainly ask you where you wish to conserve folders to with a recommended place (your User folder) already chosen. As opposed to approving this suggested place, click “Change”, navigate to the folder you chose for OneDrive and select “OK”.

Once you move the OneDrive folder to a new location, it acquires the folder permissions of the moms and dad folder (or drive if the OneDrive folder is positioned at the root directory site). You’ll require to update the Windows customer consents to the new OneDrive folder that used to feed on the old folder, or else that folder will be viewable by everyone who makes use of the machine.

Obviously, you can restrict what folders you intend to sync in Windows 10. OneDrive has a attribute called discerning sync. It lets you either sync all your files and also folders on your OneDrive, or select specific folders to sync, making them available locally.