Allow multiple OneDrive accounts integrated into Windows Explorer
Currently, even if you integrated multiple OneDrive accounts, only the one in which you are logged on is integrated into Windows Explorer. Allowing to use as many OneDrive accounts you have integrated into Windows Explore would make OneDrive even more relevant.
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Understand the request, but we have no plans to support multiple OneDrive personal accounts per OS user account.
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Anonymous
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Hello,
I would love a solution to this OneDrive Problem. The scenario is:
Windows 10e had been installed on a laptop. There are 9 different user accounts on the laptop. Each user account has OneDrive installed. The separate users have need to access the same OneDrive folder. So, each users OneDrive is configured with the same OneDrive folder with the same user name and password to access it.
Problem:
A user can log on and then log off and then log on again etc. and OneDrive automatically signs in and works properly. However, if a different user logs on, then OneDrive requires the user to put the user name and password in, plus choose the OneDrive folder.
On top of being a hassle, the users often use the default OneDrive folder instead of the folder that is in the proper location on the laptop.I am thinking that the problem and solution lies in the Windows password vault, but I do not know how to proceed.
TIA for any and all help.
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andy
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I'm confused. Just purchased office 365 home and want to share 1 desktop with my wife and my daughter.
- First I shifted my data into my one drive account
- Now Comes the first Problem: If i'm logged in, how do I switch to my wifes one drive account in the explorer?
- If I do that, do I have to disconnect the existing (my) Connection? If so, all my synchronised data in the cloud is gone and i have to start from scratch again… what do i do wrong?
Can anyone explain me how to handle to different accounts on one desktop? i have been searching for the last two evenings and can't find relevant answers….. thanks -
George Sapuridis commented
Windows 10 lets you use Onedrive through the onedrive application which is great because regardless of which computer profile you logged in with you can sign in to your own Onedrive. However with windows 8.1 you can not use the application, you must use the built in Onedrive which defaults account associated with your windows profile email. This is problematic because if you have multiple accounts you have to sign in to the one with your onedrive email to use onedrive. This is by no means more efficient or effective than the onedrive app windows 10 users get to us. Microsoft i am sure you're more than capable of removing the Onedrive built in to windows 8.1 and letting everyone use the same application that is downloaded from the Onedrive website for Windows 10. Please implement this in the next major OS update. Thank you for all your support and assistance with the matter thus far.
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Kevin
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This is a problem. If a person has their personal Onedrive in use on a computer, there should be some was of easily syncing their business's Onedrive other than through a browswer.
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Dalip Singh
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I need help as the One Drive on my phone has my gmail address which is not associated with the one on my newly bought laptop.How do I then manage the issue of syncing both.As the one on the phone does not allow another add on address,which I tried putting of the one that I have on my laptop.How to resolve this issue.Thanks
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Anonymous
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HELP I had one drive app on my old ipad3 and need the files on my new hp laptop computer. is there a way I can transfer my files?
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Sam
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Thanks @bryan
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Gone2AnotherPlane
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I noticed that there is a start of an answer to the original request of "Anonymous" with Microsoft web browser "Edge" which allows to chose which OneDrive account you want to save a file to through a OneDrive icon in the save file wizard that will give you the possibility to switch from OneDrive account.
Say I am sharing one piece of laptop with my wife, each of us has its own Microsoft account and use it to log in to its own Windows session on the laptop. In the example, I am logged in to my Windows session which connects me to my personnal OneDrive account with the desktop client.
I am browsing with Edge navigator and I want to save a file from the Internet to my wife's OneDrive account without logging off my windows session. Well, that's currently possible with Edge which allows chosing which OneDrive account you wish to save the file to. Simply right click the document in Edge windows and click "save to" and then on the left down corner of the save wizard you will see the OneDrive icon, click it and chose the OneDrive account you want to save the file to. -
Anonymous
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bryan's suggestion is how i have always added multiple accounts before, but on this computer there is no option to add another account when i click settings - only 2 sidebars (sharing and more info - which sends me onto pc settings that also dont have instructions on how to add an account) :(
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Eamonn
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My thanks too @Bryan - simple effective solution.
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Anniemarie
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Thanks, @Bryan for the simple solution! The other solution I've seen online - to create a shared folder in the second account and share it with the first - was not ideal for me. I don't want my personal folder to be a shared folder on my work account.
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Neil 'Munch' Armstrong commented
@Bryan comment work for me
Bryan commented · January 24, 2018 3:01 AM · Flag as inappropriate
I have a personal and a business one drive, and can see them both under favorites in Windows Explorer. To set up the second one, I right-clicked on the OneDrive icon in the system tray, then clicked on "Settings". On the account tab, I clicked on "Add an account". The next window prompted me for userid and pw, and now I can see and access both. -
Anonymous
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OneDrive needs to allow multiple personal accounts. My husband doesn't do much on the computer but periodically needs some cloud storage. I bought us the Office 365 Home plan to have enough licenses for our desktop and two laptops, but if I can't access those five 1 TB OneDrives from the same computer, they're basically useless.
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Bryan
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I have a personal and a business one drive, and can see them both under favorites in Windows Explorer. To set up the second one, I right-clicked on the OneDrive icon in the system tray, then clicked on "Settings". On the account tab, I clicked on "Add an account". The next window prompted me for userid and pw, and now I can see and access both.
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Anonymous
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That's bloody silly ... the whole point of Windows is to multi-task and I want to use different One Drive accounts for myself vs. that which I use for my Scout group and cannot ... Maybe Google drive is a better answer?
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Anonymous
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Any new plans on integrating more than one OneDrive? I have a work and a personal I'd like to integrate into Windows Explorer.
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lrodriquezlive
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@ TamaraK
I followed your instructions and everything worked as instructed. I had to unlink my previous account and link it to the account I want to link.
It would be nice if this feature is made available throughout all systems. Luckily, I elected for the basis service associated with my previous account and there were hardly any important files anyway. But recently, I created an account for my wife and I to both have access to documents. With that, we subscribed to the 1TB service to be able to synchronized all documents we need to have access to.
Until reading this post, it was annoying to log off from one account onto another. Thanks TamaraK for this solution.
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Alexandra
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I don't know who reads these boards, but here's my problem: While at my OFFICE, I received a OneDrive notification that I was out of space, so I purchased the 1 TB of space for $80.00/year. That was a MONTH AGO and to this day, the blue OneDrive icon on my HOME computer has not synced to the OneDrive account on my OFFICE computer. The account is a PERSONAL account, not a business account. I can access the right version of my OneDrive by clicking on the link I emailed to myself, but that is a pain in the "you know"..... I want the BLUE ONEDRIVE ICON on my HOME COMPUTER to contain the very same documents/folders as the OneDrive on my OFFICE COMPUTER. Can anyone explain how to get this done? Alexandra (Dallas, Texas), August 30, 2017
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Larry Fent
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Why Not?
