How to change the Change the OneDrive for Business Folder Location

I have two separate drives a small C: SSD to run the operating system and other programs, and a regular D: hard drive to store the bulk of their content.

I want to sync OneDrive for business but the C: drive does not have sufficient capacity.

I can find instructions on how to change the folder location to my D drive. Information is available for OneDrive, not OneDrive for Business

Here are the right click options for OneDrive for Business

Can any one offer advice please

March 23rd, 2014 8:20am

I also am interested in this. I need to change the location of the OneDrive for business folder. Why?

I need to place the data in an encrypted, mounted partition. If someone steals the physical drive or has access to it, they can't see my data without knowing my encryption password.

The software I use for this is TrueCrypt.

Please help. Thank you!

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March 23rd, 2014 4:25pm

Hi,

Please refer to the following article which described the steps to change the sync location of OneDrive for Business:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/support/change-the-location-where-you-sync-sharepoint-libraries-on-your-computer-HA102893480.aspx

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

March 24th, 2014 5:01am

This worked for me - after following steps in the video folders are syncing.

Thanks for the help

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March 25th, 2014 5:09am

Hi Steve,

I tried this procedure but the changed location only works once. Any subsequent share point site i want to sync, point to the original folder. How can i change that?

April 14th, 2014 10:10pm

Hi Steve,

I tried this procedure but the changed location only works once. Any subsequent share point site i want to sync, point to the original folder. How can i change that?

Same with me.
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April 16th, 2014 3:02am

Hi Steve,

I tried this procedure but the changed location only works once. Any subsequent share point site i want to sync, point to the original folder. How can i change that?


I have the same problem trying to synchronise SharePoint and Onedrive.  With the first library I can select a different location.  For the second library I cannot change the default location.
April 21st, 2014 7:26am

Hi Steve,

I tried this procedure but the changed location only works once. Any subsequent share point site i want to sync, point to the original folder. How can i change that?

This is a problem that has been driving me nuts so far. I need all my various SharePoint libraries sync to a folder which is different from the default folder. However, for the first library, I am able to set the folder on which I want to sync, but any subsequent Sync results in the default location "C:\users\username" being chosen instead of the one I had selected for the first library.


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April 21st, 2014 3:20pm

i have the same trouble - it only changes it for the first Sync all next sync go to C:\users\username again....

April 26th, 2014 12:45pm

i have found a workaround with symbolic Link

My 2n Disk (Target) ist X:\

create X:\SharePoint

create a symbolic Link under C:\Users\Username\...

          mklink /d SharePoint X:\SharePoint

sync the first OneDrive for buisness by Change the Target to C:\Users\Username\SharePoint

Result - all Sync data is on my X:\SharePoint Folder...

I hope this helps you

  • Proposed as answer by IsAnDo Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:39 PM
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April 26th, 2014 1:10pm

I have the same trouble too... if the setting only work for the first time, might as well don't let the user to change in the first place...

When I click for "Open your OneDrive for Business Folder" it leads me to the first folder, while all my others share point folders are in the default folder.

Obviously this is a simple bug, but important bug that driving people nuts!!!

May 7th, 2014 10:11am

I am already a long time annoyed that you cannot change the location by policy or registry tweak.

but now like already mentioned, since the latest update of onedrive it is even gotten worse and you just can change the first sync. All following take the default location and the button change path is not shown anymore.

Why we want to redirect?

- space of the c: drive

- our c: drive is hidden, and when you sync a folder to the default location ondrive says that the location is not reachable...

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May 7th, 2014 2:33pm

Hi IsAnDo

Your tip works! Thank you for sharing that!! Hopping that MS will correct the bug in few time because this issue must take a lot of time for a lot of people...

May 13th, 2014 10:00am

The tip with the symlink won't work if your path-length gets too long  - as in my case.

Our convention is to sync the Sharepoint folder to a root drive (eg. D:) - so now syncing to c:\users\... isn't possible...

Please fix this!

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May 28th, 2014 7:46am

Hi Steve,

I tried this procedure but the changed location only works once. Any subsequent share point site i want to sync, point to the original folder. How can i change that?

Same here too.

OneDrive Business (SkyDrive Pro) has never been able to run sync trouble free for long since I started using it in combination with Office 365 more than 1.5 year ago. There's a lot of potential here, but you cannot call this application 'Business' or 'Pro' because it is not!

June 19th, 2014 8:43am

i have found a workaround with symbolic Link

My 2n Disk (Target) ist X:\

create X:\SharePoint

create a symbolic Link under C:\Users\Username\...

          mklink /d SharePoint X:\SharePoint

sync the first OneDrive for buisness by Change the Target to C:\Users\Username\SharePoint

Result - all Sync data is on my X:\SharePoint Folder...

I hope this helps you

This worked for me as well.

Finally I am able to sync more than one library in the folder I have chosen.
Thank you IsAnDo.

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July 15th, 2014 4:26pm

Symbolic lincs work fine but a problem that I have is that the folders do not seemed to be called always the same.

I have seen: onedrive @ company, sharepoint, onderive - company,...

A policy should really be made available. the most logic solution

August 7th, 2014 8:07am

disconnected

copy them at location

edit registry settings for onedrive folder location

reconnect-check to create a file and if it correctly sync at new location

if yes : delete previous folder ?

---------for that kind of folder the ie like functions 'such as: move' is real important , maybe the client ui lack because of the show coming from the onedrive api

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December 22nd, 2014 10:17pm

Thanks Steve -- Looks like this is the closest one gets.

Do you have any thoughts on

1) Only the first sync working?  The symlink workaround seemed to fix this problem for users, but I don't understand why..

2) I wanted to make this work with a removable drive, but it seems that this Sync cannot work with these nor network drives.  Any thoughts on why?  Is this gonna change?  Is there a reason?  I understand that it would be hard to sync if you keep popping your computer out of the doc, but stopping and starting automatically, or recovering after failure with a 10 minute delay don't seem too hard to implement.  Is something like this coming in a future version? 


The advent of SSD's has made a particular generation of laptops very bad for syncing.  And while the problem is lessened with larger SSD's, it still is a problem..

Thanks.

G.

March 26th, 2015 10:56am

What about changing the actual name of the folder OneDrive for Business syncs to. At my school, most of the students and teachers OneDrive for business folder is located at:

C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive for Business

But there are a few others' whose OneDrive for Business folder is actually at this location:

C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive - St. Mary's School

The issue here is that I set an Active Directory policy to place the students "Documents" folder (among others) into the folder "C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive for Business". But, this will obviously not work if the OneDrive for Business folder has inexplicitly been named "OneDrive - St. Mary's School".

Can I change the name of the actual OneDrive for business folder (not the visible name, the actual folder name)? And, why do some of the folders get named differently?

Thanks,

David J.

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July 31st, 2015 4:22pm

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