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OneDrive, the popular Microsoft cloud storage application, is available as an integrated application on Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 systems (with File On-Demand feature) and can easily be downloaded for other Windows version systems. The default location of the OneDrive folder is –
C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive. With the OneDrive application, you can synchronize OneDrive for Business to your Windows PC. This service is free for account holders.
If you have a lot of information on your OneDrive folder with big files in large numbers, then your system hard drive space is more occupied, causing problems. Here, the OneDrive folder needs to move to another drive location to avoid system data loss, corruption, inaccessibility, or other issues.
We have brought you a simple way to move the OneDrive folder from its default location to another destination.
The process is similar and applicable to OneDrive for Windows, OneDrive (work or school), and OneDrive (home or personal). Follow these steps carefully if you desire to change or modify the location of your synchronized OneDrive folder on your system.
Hence, you have successfully changed the folder location of your OneDrive account.
Note: One is not allowed to change the OneDrive folder name.
So, the process was simple to perform and recommended for users with limited storage on drives.
For users who need to migrate OneDrive for Business to OneDrive for Business account, we have a smart, automated migration solution known as Kernel OneDrive Migration tool that supports direct migration from one account of OneDrive for Business to another. The process is automated, flexible, and without any limitations. So, you can trust this for your data migration needs. The tool is smartly programmed to perform SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online migrations, Google Drive to Google Drive migrations, File System to SharePoint migrations, and more; you can get a quick idea about the software by visiting its website.
A- If your primary system drive space is occupied mainly by the OneDrive folder files and there is limited available space now, it is time to relocate this folder to a secondary drive or other drive partition to save some space.
A- The unlinking of the OneDrive account from the PC is suggested to halt synchronization between the cloud account and the system, causing unnecessary missing updates in between. The connection is reestablished as soon as the folder is moved to the desired location with the setup of the account with the same login details.
A- Yes, definitely. The Kernel OneDrive Migration Tool supports the backup of SharePoint Server, Google Drive, OneDrive for Business data to the File System.
A- The trial version of the Kernel Migrator for SharePoint supports the migration of 5 items per folder (with 20MB file size). For unlimited data storage, purchase the software at – https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/onedrive-for-business-migration/