{"id":19452,"date":"2014-03-04T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2023-07-21T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:27:26","slug":"change-skydrive-default-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/change-skydrive-default-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change OneDrive Default Location in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/icloud-gdrive-onedrive-dropbox\/\">cloud storage<\/a> service inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/windows-81-tips-tricks\/\">Windows 8.1<\/a> via which users can sync their files to all their Windows devices. Because it\u2019s installed together with Windows 8.1, its folder is <strong>located in the operating system hard drive<\/strong>. This might be a turn-off to users with a small-capacity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/solid-state-drives-upgrade\/\">solid state drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This quick tip will help you <strong>relocate the default OneDrive folder location<\/strong> to open up storage space for the installation of other files. It\u2019ll be good to <strong>relocate it to a secondary storage drive<\/strong> on your computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Microsoft hasn\u2019t updated SkyDrive to OneDrive as seen in the pictures at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/ms-skydrive-tips\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: 8 Microsoft OneDrive Tips\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8 Microsoft OneDrive Tips<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/ms-skydrive-tips.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-15183 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/ms-skydrive-tips.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">8 Microsoft OneDrive Tips<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCloud drive services are becoming widely popular nowadays with services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and even Amazon Drive....\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Change OneDrive Default Folder Location<\/h2>\n<p>Open a Windows File Explorer window and <strong>right click on SkyDrive<\/strong> at the quick navigation pane on the right and select <strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/change-skydrive-default-folder\/skydrive-properties.jpg\" alt=\"SkyDrive Properties\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\"><\/figure>\n<p>A window with the SkyDrive properties will pop up. Under the <strong>Location<\/strong> tab, you\u2019ll see the current location of the SkyDrive folder. To change this, click on <strong>Move\u2026<\/strong> and <strong>choose the folder<\/strong> you want to move all of your SkyDrive\u2019s contents to.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/change-skydrive-default-folder\/skydrive-location.jpg\" alt=\"SkyDrive Folder Location\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\"><\/figure>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve selected a folder, click <strong>OK<\/strong> and it\u2019ll prompt you if you want to move all the files from the current location to the new folder location. Click on <strong>Yes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/change-skydrive-default-folder\/skydrive-move.jpg\" alt=\"SkyDrive Move\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\"><\/figure>\n<p>Now when new files get synced into this computer, it\u2019ll be stored in the new location. Everything will work like it should and you would have more free space on your operating system hard drive or solid-state drive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a cloud storage service inside Windows 8.1 via which users can sync their files to all their Windows devices. Because it\u2019s installed together with Windows 8.1, its folder is located in the operating system hard drive. This might be a turn-off to users with a small-capacity solid state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3397],"tags":[171,1962,1896],"topic":[4521],"class_list":["entry-content","is-maxi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How To Change OneDrive Default Location On Windows 8.1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microsoft&#039;s OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a cloud storage service inside Windows 8.1 via which users can sync their files to all their\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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