Change default name for OneDrive For Business folder

Question

The default name for OneDrive for Business is "OneDrive - BusinessName". I would like to create OneDrive as "OneDrive BusinessName", without the dash. I have set OneDrive to back up My Documents and I have AutoCAD installed and it doesn't like the dash in the path name for folders it creates in Documents. I know I can use another folder to put the files in, but it is still in "C:\Users\UserName\OneDrive - BusinessName\" and this is not working. It would be nice if there was a way to get rid of the dash when linking a new account.

Answer 1

All I wanted to do was rename the onedrive folder in explorer. Because it just shows the organisation name.

I did find this and tried this on my own pc and it did work for me.

https://medium.com/@osaycanyousay/changing-your-onedrive-name-in-file-explorer-navigation-d854fd901198

Basically.. Quit Onedrive. Go to c:\users\user\appdata\local\microsoft\onedrive\settings

You will see the accounts as folders. If you only have one then it is Business1

In the folder edit the GUID looking ini file and on line one find and change the "c:\users\user\OneDrive - Company" to what you want ie "c:\users\user\OneDrive - Fred"

Save the file..

Rename you onedrive folder "C:\users\user\OneDrive - Company" to the same name.

Start Onedrive again and you will see that in Explorer the OneDrive - Company now Shows OneDrive - Fred

Love to hear if this works for anyone one else out there.

Quite often we setup a master onedrive user and share off a folder for everyone else to use. So we use onedrive web access to sync the shared folder down, but of course that shows up with a different squared icon but still has the same name. So if we can change the local users one drive icon name in explorer they can easily see what folder they are looking at.

I also found that if you unlink an account and you go to delete the c:\users\user\onedrive folder you cannot delete it. The answer to that is delete the c:\users\user\appdata\local\microsoft\onedrive\settings\Business1 folder.. Once that is done you can delete the c:\users\user\onedrive folder! Somehow onedrive or microsoft still has a hold on that directory even though onedrive has been quitted.

Answer 2

@Emi Zhang-MSFT I tried your suggestion, but it just adds the hyphenated name after the renamed folder I selected.

Answer 3

Thanks for your help. I looked at that thread, but I didn't see anything I haven't already tried. I'm giving up...for now. I may come back to this in the future. I did submit feedback to OneDrive though. I don't expect much however.

Answer 4

Hi @EdJobe-9589,
Try this method:

1. Right-click OneDrive icon>select settings.
2. Click Stop sync>Unlink account.
3. Select the OneDrive folder>Rignt-click the folder>select Rename.
4. Re-sync>change the location as the folder which has changed name.

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Answer 5

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m on vacation this week. I’ll try it when I get back.