OneDrive is a gratuitous online storage service that comes bundled with Windows or Office 365 — it's securely integrated into everything in Windows and Office. But what if you lot want to move the folder to a different drive?

Depending on how big and how many files y'all've synced, your OneDrive folder might take up substantial space on your hard drive, so if you have a 2nd and bigger hard drive in your computer, moving the OneDrive folder makes a lot of sense.

Simply don't motion information technology just for the sake of moving information technology. But move it if you really have a need to.

Modify Location of the OneDrive Folder

Right-click the "OneDrive" icon in the System Tray and select "Settings." (If you don't see information technology, information technology may be hidden. In that example, click the up arrow button in the organization tray to encounter the subconscious icons—including OneDrive).

The OneDrive Settings dialog box appears. From the list of options, select "Unlink OneDrive".

As shortly every bit you click on the choice you lot will get the Welcome to OneDrive screen with a push button to "Get started".

Now before you configure the settings once more, move the contents of the OneDrive folder that were already previously synced. Moving the synced folders will make sure you salve on your bandwidth on the files that were already previously synced.

Open up File Explorer and navigate to the OneDrive folder (usually in C:\Users\<your username>\OneDrive) and select it. Click on the "Home" tab in the explorer ribbon and select "Move to > Choose location." Choose the folder location (it can be an external hard too, but you accept to proceed the bulldoze plugged in all the fourth dimension, which is non practical) where you lot need to save your OneDrive files in the future.

Become back to the OneDrive set-up screen, select "Get started," and sign into OneDrive again. When you sign in, OneDrive will enquire you where you want to save folders to with a suggested location (your User binder) already selected. Instead of accepting this suggested location, click "Change", navigate to the folder y'all selected for OneDrive and select "OK".

Once you move the OneDrive binder to a new location, it inherits the folder permissions of the parent folder (or drive if the OneDrive folder is placed at the root directory). You lot'll need to update the Windows user permissions to the new OneDrive folder that used to be on the old folder, or else that folder will be viewable by everyone who uses the machine.

Of course, y'all can limit what folders you want to sync in Windows ten. OneDrive has a feature called selective sync. It lets you either sync all your files and folders on your OneDrive, or choose specific folders to sync, making them available locally.