

This guide will teach you how to use OneDrive effectively to achieve maximum business results. You can copy, rename, and open files from this mapped drive.Īnd, by the way, you can right-click on the drive name, which will likely be named with your OneDrive CID, and rename it to something more meaningful.OneDrive offers a user-friendly experience to beginners and advanced users alike. You should now see all of your OneDrive folders and files under This PC in Windows Explorer-whether or not they are stored locally on your computer. Click Finish and enter your OneDrive login. Check the "Connect using different credentials" box.ħ. In the Folder field, enter followed by the CID you copied in step 1.Ħ.

Click on the Computer tab then "Map network drive".ĥ. Don't include any other characters that separate the CID, such as % or &.Ĥ. These are the digits and letters after the "cid=" part of the URL.

Copy the CID number from the address bar. Once you map OneDrive, you can double-click a file that's stored online only to download it to your machine.Ĭhoose OneDrive Personal or OneDrive for BusinessĢ. You'll see the full list of folders and files available, even the ones not stored locally on your computer. Mapping OneDrive in Windows 10 will make it work similarly to the way OneDrive works in Windows 8.1. There's a workaround, however, that lets you see and access all of the files you have in OneDrive: Map it as a network drive. In Windows 10, you can select which folders get synced between OneDrive online and the OneDrive folder on your hard drive, but File Explorer won't show you the data that's stored only on the OneDrive cloud storage space.
