Change OneDrive location on Computer
- Dan Jakubiak
Students, faculty, and staff may change the location of the OneDrive directory on their computer. For example, you may wish to have your OneDrive use a secondary storage drive.
OneDrive needs to download files before they can be edited. Files that are currently being worked on will live in this location. The same is true for files that you instruct to “Always keep on this device”; they will live in this location.
Unlink OneDrive from your computer
Click on the OneDrive cloud icon in the tool bar.
In the popup window, click on the settings gear, then click on Settings.
Click on Account if necessary, then Unlink this PC.
Note: the sign out process may take upwards of 15 minutes as the app cleans up your OneDrive folder, removing all files that have not had the “Always keep on this device” label applied and files that have not been opened in the last 30 days. The time needed to sign out is heavily dependent on the number of files in your account.
Wait for the sign out process to finish. When it does finish, you will receive a popup window asking you to sign in to OneDrive.
Sign in with your UConn email address.
When asked for the location of your OneDrive directory, click on Change location.
This allows you to select the location on your computer that will be used for the OneDrive repository.
Follow through the rest of the installation process as you normally would.
