How to Change OneDrive Location to Another PC or Drive

How to change OneDrive location? How to move OneDrive folder? How to transfer OneDrive to another PC or drive? Here's how. EaseUS Todo PCTrans can easily transfer OneDrive to another PC or drive without difficulty. Follow the details below and change OneDrive location with ease.

OneDrive is one of the most popular cloud storage services. It allows you to sync your data across Windows 10, Android, OS X, and iOS devices. When you are running out of space on your primary drive you can move data files or folders to an external hard drive. Similarly, Microsoft OneDrive folder and all of its contents could be moved to another drive or a secondary storage location. You can move OneDrive from C drive to D drive by changing location. Here are two ways to change the OneDrive location.

Part 1: How to Change OneDrive Location

OneDrive or game files are taking too much space on your C drive! If you have an external hard drive, you can also move programs to an external hard drive. Here we introduce a secure software and a manual method for you. 

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Speaking of changing OneDrive location, you need the help of PC transfer software - EaseUS Todo PCTrans. You can move OneDrive,  installed games like Apex Legends, WOW, and Leagues of Legends to another drive with ease.

You can download this software here now and directly launch this software to help you move OneDrive to another drive.

Video Tutorial about Move OneDrive Folder 

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Todo PCTrans and select transfer mode

On the main screen of EaseUS Todo PCTrans, go to "Local Migration" section and click "Start" to continue.

Step 2. Select apps and another drive to transfer

1. Select the source partition and tick applications, programs and software (marked as "Yes") that you'd like to migrate.

2. Click triangle icon to select another drive or disk as your target device and click "Transfer" to start the migration.

Step 3. Finish the migration process

When the transferring process finishes, click "OK" to complete.

You can restart your PC to keep all the changes, and you should be able to run your migrated apps on the other drive again.

How to Move OneDrive Folder to Another Drive (Manually)

As you already have stored many files from the cloud to local storage, you should move the existing OneDrive folder to your desired location. To change the default location of your OneDrive folder to where you want in Windows 10, here's how:

Step 1: Right-click the OneDrive taskbar icon and select "Settings". Click "Unlink this PC" under the Account tab. If the login screen appears, you should ignore it.

Step 2: Navigate to the OneDrive folder. It is probably directly under your C:\Users\[your username] folder.

Step 3: Click the "Move to" button on the Home tab. Then select "Choose location". Select the new location and click "Move".

Step 4: Enter your email address into the OneDrive window.

Step 5: After sign in, click "Change location".

Step 6: Select the location where you moved your OneDrive folder to, select the OneDrive folder, and click "Select Folder". Click "Use this location", then click "Next".

Step 7: Choose what you want to sync to your OneDrive folder on the PC, and click "Next". Click "Open my OneDrive folder". You will see your OneDrive folder is now at the new location syncing the folders you had chosen.

Part 2: How to Move OneDrive to New Computer

Sometimes you don't want to re-download the program on your new PC. Transfering OneDrive to the new PC is a nice choice. Here, I am going to show you how to move OneDrive from one PC to another without difficulty. To make it, you need EaseUS Todo PCTrans. This easy application transfer software helps transfer programs from one computer to another.

This easy PC transfer tool safely migrates your existing files, file folders, programs, and account over to a new computer. Download and install PC transfer software on your PCs. Then, follow the steps below to move OneDrive to another PC or laptop.

Step 1. Set Up the Old PC

• First, install and launch EaseUS Todo PCTrans and select Data Transfer on the left panel of the main interface.

• Select "Transfer Directly" and click "Next" to continue. 

Step 2. Set Up the New PC

• Download and launch EaseUS Todo PCTrans on the new computer; select "This is New PC" and click "Next".

• Select "Transfer directly" and click "Next" to continue. 
• Select "Network" and click Next to continue. This will automatically scan the old PC. (Make sure the two PCs are connected to the same LAN.)

• Select the target PC and click Connect. Then, it will take some time to scan and analyze the data in old PC.

Step 3. Select the Apps to Transfer

• On the new PC, select the applications you want to transfer. Then, click "Transfer" to start.