To do so, go to and sign in with your new account, then go to OneDrive for Business and click on 'Sync'.ī. To do so, just go back to the right-bottom corner and make sure that no ODB icon is available.Īt this stage, your old files have been removed from your File Explorer and you are ready to synchronize your new OneDrive for Business account.Ī. Confirm that no ODB instances are running currently on your device: To remove them look for the folder with the icon as shown below, delete it as well:Ĭ. Often, when a user synchronizes his/her ODB folder, we might find some SharePoint Online Sites Folders synchronized as well. Make sure your SharePoint Libraries are also removed: Select the folder and remove it from your PC (right-click > delete)ī. Navigate to this location C:\Users\'your user' and find the folder named 'OneDrive - Old Company Name'. Generally, ODB synchronization folder is under C:\Users\'your user' and will be named using this format: 'OneDrive - Old Company Name' To make sure that everything has been removed and cleaned up we need to perform a few more steps: > The cloud-only available files will be automatically removed, they were never really stored locally anyways.
> If you have synchronized your files with local availability, those will be kept in your PC even if you disable the synchronization. Locally available files will remain on this device while online files will be removed.Īs explained in the previous step when you unlink your ODB account from your PC, 2 options are possible: Confirm that you want to Unlink your account from your PC. This will open the configuration settings of ODB, make sure that you have selected the tab 'Account', then choose 'Stop Sync'.Ĭ. Right-click on the ODB icon, this will display the ODB configuration menu, then hit 'Settings'.ī. To do so, in the bottom-right corner of your PC's desktop, you can find the OneDrive for Business instance by clicking on the arrow to show the hidden icons (if OneDrive for Business (ODB) icon is not already displayed).Ī. Today we will go through the steps you need to perform in order to delete this folder and synchronize a new one. When a user synchronizes OneDrive for Business, with File Explorer, a folder is created locally and can be recognized by the name format of the folder: 'OneDrive - Company Name'. If you recently had a new job within a new organization or migrated from an existing Office 365 tenant to a new one, or you simply just want to clean up your PC from previously synchronized files & folders, then this article is for you.
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