Everything will work like it should and you would have more free space on your operating system hard drive or solid state drive. Now when new files get synced into this computer, it’ll be stored in the new location. Once you’ve selected a folder, click OK and it’ll prompt you if you want to move all the files from the current location to the new folder location. To change this, click on Move… and choose the folder you want to move all of your SkyDrive’s contents to.
Under the Location tab, you’ll see the current location of the SkyDrive folder. Open a Windows File Explorer window and right click on SkyDrive at the quick navigation pane on the right and select Properties.Ī window with the SkyDrive properties will pop up.
Recommended Reading: 8 Tips To Get The Most Out Of Microsoft SkyDrive Change OneDrive Default Folder Location Note: Microsoft hasn’t updated SkyDrive to OneDrive as seen in the pictures during the time of this writing. It’ll be good to relocate it to a secondary storage drive on your computer. This quick tip will help you relocate the default OneDrive folder location to open up storage space for the installation of other files. This might be a turn off to users with a small-capacity solid state drive. Because it’s installed together with Windows 8.1, its folder is located in the operating system hard drive. That’s about it! You can also use Disk Management to format disks, determine the type of File System and see the amount of free space available.Microsoft’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 Windows devices. Usually, if the USB stick was not showing up before, once you change the letter, it will automatically pop up and ask you what you want to do. I would highly advise to either NOT do this, OR to change the path BACK to the original (program files/program files (x86)), ESPECIALLY the 64-bit path back to C:\Program Files, because if the default path is NOT here, then Windows updates will constantly fail as it tries to install them to your set default installation path. That means you could create a folder in My Documents called pictures that actually points to another hard drive instead of one where all of your My Documents are currently stored.Ĭlick Ok twice and your drive should now have the new letter assigned. Just for your info, the Mount in the following NTFS folder option is used if you had right clicked on an external hard drive and instead of giving it a drive letter, you wanted to just have it show up as a folder on your current hard drive.
If your drive has no letter or you want to change it, then right-click in the white space to the right of the drive letter and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.Ĭlick the Change button in the dialog box and then pick a new letter from the drop-down list.
By default, Windows gave my portable USB drive the letter H.
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