Как изменить название onedrive

After installing Office 365, I have a new special folder in Explorer called «OneDrive — Company Name LLC».

I found a registry key at ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace whose value matches that text (and it’s the only match in the registry), and I confirmed previously that deleting it will remove the entry from Explorer, so I assumed I could rename it here. However, it does not seem to work. I changed the value and even rebooted, but the display value did not change.

How can I rename my personal OneDrive folder?

Background/reasoning:

I have synced a Sharepoint document library as a public share of sorts. It shows up as «Company Name LLC». My personal OneDrive shows up as «OneDrive — Company Name LLC». This has already led to confusion with some employees. They thought they were putting files in a public space but were not. Ideally it would be named something like «OneDrive — Personal Folders».

asked May 16, 2018 at 20:28

@the-joatmon is 100% correct: end users confuse their private onedrive folders for the companies’ folders.

It annoyed me enough that I came with an easy solution that works for me:
Hide OneDrive on the explorer left pane. To do so, use regedit —

navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID
and search for: System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree
Than change the DWORD value from 1 to 0

Then to see the effect, kill explorer in Task Manager and restart it.

Typically OneDrive syncs Documents and Pictures that are pinned to QuickAccess, so there is no reason to see them twice.

If your users have other folders that are synced, I suggest pinning them also to Quick access. Finally to cleanup I prevent Explorer from adding recently visited folders to Quick access by

right click Quick access on left pane in explorer
select Options and uncheck: Show frequently used folders in Quick access

answered Dec 13, 2021 at 6:19

If you are a «global admin» of the Office installation which gives you the business OneDrive, then changing the OneDrive root folder name is easy without changing the registry or adding filesystem links, because «Currently, updating the organization name does not update it for configured clients.» (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/admin/manage/change-address-contact-and-more).

This means, in summary, that you can change the organization name to anything you like, call it string S, trigger each OneDrive installation to use the new name, then change the organization name back to what it should be for billing, etc.

This works for me as of day of posting on my Windows 10 Pro machines, which are not associated with a Windows domain.

1. Log into Office admin center (admin.microsoft.com). Go to Settings >
   Org settings page > Organization profile tab > Organization
   information. Change the «Name» to the string you want to use,
   and save the changes. For new OneDrive installations, your root
   OneDrive folder name is required to be «OneDrive — S«. Existing
   installations will NOT be changed.
2. Steps 2-4 must be done for each OneDrive root folder whose name
   should be changed (i.e., repeat for each user/machine). In OneDrive
   settings, unlink the PC. OneDrive will probably pop up a new sign-in
   window, which you can leave open.
3. In Explorer, change the root OneDrive folder name to «OneDrive —
   S«.
4. Return to the OneDrive sign-in window (or launch OneDrive again; or
   open another running OneDrive such as a personal OneDrive and «add
   account» in settings). Sign in with the business credentials and
   proceed to the screen which lists and confirms the location of the
   OneDrive. The default OneDrive folder root name will be your new
   name. (If you’ve moved the location of the OneDrive root folder, you
   may need to navigate there. Wherever it is located, the root folder
   name must be «OneDrive — S«.) On the next screen, you will get
   warning that the selected location already exists and has files in
   it, and you get the choice whether to re-use the folder or create a
   new one. Choose to re-use. OneDrive will go comparing all the
   contents looking for changes. Assuming the folder was synced before
   you started and no changes in the cloud while you worked, OneDrive
   will simply count down from the total number of files to zero,
   making no changes to your local folder.
5. Go back to the online admin center and change the organization name back to
   whatever is right there. The documentation link above lists where
   that name is used across the Office environment.

answered Jan 22, 2021 at 15:20

The solution that worked for me (to avoid spaces and special characters) was to assign the path to the onedrive folder to a virtual disk with the command subst (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst).

For instance: subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" uses the drive letter O to point to the onedrive folder in disk C.

One problem with this approach is that the mapping is temporary. It can be made permanent following How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?. However, I chose to create a shortcut to subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" in C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup.

Another minor problem is that it assigns the same label as that of the original disk. Following https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/how-to-assign-a-custom-icon-and-label-to-a-drive-letter, I removed the label (of disk C:) and added new default labels (and an icon) with the regedit keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultIcon]
@="%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultLabel]
@="OneDriveCompany"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsCDefaultLabel]
@="System"

answered Mar 5, 2022 at 0:14

My answer is based on Oz Edri’s answer , but with a spin:

1. Setup OneDrive , specifying a folder name that you are sure is unique inside your PC
2. Quit OneDrive
3. Rename OneDrive Folder as you desire
4. Open a registry editor and search for your unique folder. Replace every occurrence possible (you might not have permission to change some, that’s fine)
5. Steps 6-8 from Oz Edri’s answer
6. Reboot

answered Mar 29, 2022 at 14:12

After installing Office 365, I have a new special folder in Explorer called «OneDrive — Company Name LLC».

I found a registry key at ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace whose value matches that text (and it’s the only match in the registry), and I confirmed previously that deleting it will remove the entry from Explorer, so I assumed I could rename it here. However, it does not seem to work. I changed the value and even rebooted, but the display value did not change.

How can I rename my personal OneDrive folder?

Background/reasoning:

I have synced a Sharepoint document library as a public share of sorts. It shows up as «Company Name LLC». My personal OneDrive shows up as «OneDrive — Company Name LLC». This has already led to confusion with some employees. They thought they were putting files in a public space but were not. Ideally it would be named something like «OneDrive — Personal Folders».

asked May 16, 2018 at 20:28

@the-joatmon is 100% correct: end users confuse their private onedrive folders for the companies’ folders.

It annoyed me enough that I came with an easy solution that works for me:
Hide OneDrive on the explorer left pane. To do so, use regedit —

navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID
and search for: System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree
Than change the DWORD value from 1 to 0

Then to see the effect, kill explorer in Task Manager and restart it.

Typically OneDrive syncs Documents and Pictures that are pinned to QuickAccess, so there is no reason to see them twice.

If your users have other folders that are synced, I suggest pinning them also to Quick access. Finally to cleanup I prevent Explorer from adding recently visited folders to Quick access by

right click Quick access on left pane in explorer
select Options and uncheck: Show frequently used folders in Quick access

answered Dec 13, 2021 at 6:19

If you are a «global admin» of the Office installation which gives you the business OneDrive, then changing the OneDrive root folder name is easy without changing the registry or adding filesystem links, because «Currently, updating the organization name does not update it for configured clients.» (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/admin/manage/change-address-contact-and-more).

This means, in summary, that you can change the organization name to anything you like, call it string S, trigger each OneDrive installation to use the new name, then change the organization name back to what it should be for billing, etc.

This works for me as of day of posting on my Windows 10 Pro machines, which are not associated with a Windows domain.

1. Log into Office admin center (admin.microsoft.com). Go to Settings >
   Org settings page > Organization profile tab > Organization
   information. Change the «Name» to the string you want to use,
   and save the changes. For new OneDrive installations, your root
   OneDrive folder name is required to be «OneDrive — S«. Existing
   installations will NOT be changed.
2. Steps 2-4 must be done for each OneDrive root folder whose name
   should be changed (i.e., repeat for each user/machine). In OneDrive
   settings, unlink the PC. OneDrive will probably pop up a new sign-in
   window, which you can leave open.
3. In Explorer, change the root OneDrive folder name to «OneDrive —
   S«.
4. Return to the OneDrive sign-in window (or launch OneDrive again; or
   open another running OneDrive such as a personal OneDrive and «add
   account» in settings). Sign in with the business credentials and
   proceed to the screen which lists and confirms the location of the
   OneDrive. The default OneDrive folder root name will be your new
   name. (If you’ve moved the location of the OneDrive root folder, you
   may need to navigate there. Wherever it is located, the root folder
   name must be «OneDrive — S«.) On the next screen, you will get
   warning that the selected location already exists and has files in
   it, and you get the choice whether to re-use the folder or create a
   new one. Choose to re-use. OneDrive will go comparing all the
   contents looking for changes. Assuming the folder was synced before
   you started and no changes in the cloud while you worked, OneDrive
   will simply count down from the total number of files to zero,
   making no changes to your local folder.
5. Go back to the online admin center and change the organization name back to
   whatever is right there. The documentation link above lists where
   that name is used across the Office environment.

answered Jan 22, 2021 at 15:20

The solution that worked for me (to avoid spaces and special characters) was to assign the path to the onedrive folder to a virtual disk with the command subst (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst).

For instance: subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" uses the drive letter O to point to the onedrive folder in disk C.

One problem with this approach is that the mapping is temporary. It can be made permanent following How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?. However, I chose to create a shortcut to subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" in C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup.

Another minor problem is that it assigns the same label as that of the original disk. Following https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/how-to-assign-a-custom-icon-and-label-to-a-drive-letter, I removed the label (of disk C:) and added new default labels (and an icon) with the regedit keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultIcon]
@="%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultLabel]
@="OneDriveCompany"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsCDefaultLabel]
@="System"

answered Mar 5, 2022 at 0:14

My answer is based on Oz Edri’s answer , but with a spin:

1. Setup OneDrive , specifying a folder name that you are sure is unique inside your PC
2. Quit OneDrive
3. Rename OneDrive Folder as you desire
4. Open a registry editor and search for your unique folder. Replace every occurrence possible (you might not have permission to change some, that’s fine)
5. Steps 6-8 from Oz Edri’s answer
6. Reboot

answered Mar 29, 2022 at 14:12

After installing Office 365, I have a new special folder in Explorer called «OneDrive — Company Name LLC».

I found a registry key at ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace whose value matches that text (and it’s the only match in the registry), and I confirmed previously that deleting it will remove the entry from Explorer, so I assumed I could rename it here. However, it does not seem to work. I changed the value and even rebooted, but the display value did not change.

How can I rename my personal OneDrive folder?

Background/reasoning:

I have synced a Sharepoint document library as a public share of sorts. It shows up as «Company Name LLC». My personal OneDrive shows up as «OneDrive — Company Name LLC». This has already led to confusion with some employees. They thought they were putting files in a public space but were not. Ideally it would be named something like «OneDrive — Personal Folders».

asked May 16, 2018 at 20:28

@the-joatmon is 100% correct: end users confuse their private onedrive folders for the companies’ folders.

It annoyed me enough that I came with an easy solution that works for me:
Hide OneDrive on the explorer left pane. To do so, use regedit —

navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID
and search for: System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree
Than change the DWORD value from 1 to 0

Then to see the effect, kill explorer in Task Manager and restart it.

Typically OneDrive syncs Documents and Pictures that are pinned to QuickAccess, so there is no reason to see them twice.

If your users have other folders that are synced, I suggest pinning them also to Quick access. Finally to cleanup I prevent Explorer from adding recently visited folders to Quick access by

right click Quick access on left pane in explorer
select Options and uncheck: Show frequently used folders in Quick access

answered Dec 13, 2021 at 6:19

If you are a «global admin» of the Office installation which gives you the business OneDrive, then changing the OneDrive root folder name is easy without changing the registry or adding filesystem links, because «Currently, updating the organization name does not update it for configured clients.» (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/admin/manage/change-address-contact-and-more).

This means, in summary, that you can change the organization name to anything you like, call it string S, trigger each OneDrive installation to use the new name, then change the organization name back to what it should be for billing, etc.

This works for me as of day of posting on my Windows 10 Pro machines, which are not associated with a Windows domain.

1. Log into Office admin center (admin.microsoft.com). Go to Settings >
   Org settings page > Organization profile tab > Organization
   information. Change the «Name» to the string you want to use,
   and save the changes. For new OneDrive installations, your root
   OneDrive folder name is required to be «OneDrive — S«. Existing
   installations will NOT be changed.
2. Steps 2-4 must be done for each OneDrive root folder whose name
   should be changed (i.e., repeat for each user/machine). In OneDrive
   settings, unlink the PC. OneDrive will probably pop up a new sign-in
   window, which you can leave open.
3. In Explorer, change the root OneDrive folder name to «OneDrive —
   S«.
4. Return to the OneDrive sign-in window (or launch OneDrive again; or
   open another running OneDrive such as a personal OneDrive and «add
   account» in settings). Sign in with the business credentials and
   proceed to the screen which lists and confirms the location of the
   OneDrive. The default OneDrive folder root name will be your new
   name. (If you’ve moved the location of the OneDrive root folder, you
   may need to navigate there. Wherever it is located, the root folder
   name must be «OneDrive — S«.) On the next screen, you will get
   warning that the selected location already exists and has files in
   it, and you get the choice whether to re-use the folder or create a
   new one. Choose to re-use. OneDrive will go comparing all the
   contents looking for changes. Assuming the folder was synced before
   you started and no changes in the cloud while you worked, OneDrive
   will simply count down from the total number of files to zero,
   making no changes to your local folder.
5. Go back to the online admin center and change the organization name back to
   whatever is right there. The documentation link above lists where
   that name is used across the Office environment.

answered Jan 22, 2021 at 15:20

The solution that worked for me (to avoid spaces and special characters) was to assign the path to the onedrive folder to a virtual disk with the command subst (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst).

For instance: subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" uses the drive letter O to point to the onedrive folder in disk C.

One problem with this approach is that the mapping is temporary. It can be made permanent following How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?. However, I chose to create a shortcut to subst O: "C:OneDrive - <Company>" in C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup.

Another minor problem is that it assigns the same label as that of the original disk. Following https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/how-to-assign-a-custom-icon-and-label-to-a-drive-letter, I removed the label (of disk C:) and added new default labels (and an icon) with the regedit keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultIcon]
@="%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsODefaultLabel]
@="OneDriveCompany"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsCDefaultLabel]
@="System"

answered Mar 5, 2022 at 0:14

My answer is based on Oz Edri’s answer , but with a spin:

1. Setup OneDrive , specifying a folder name that you are sure is unique inside your PC
2. Quit OneDrive
3. Rename OneDrive Folder as you desire
4. Open a registry editor and search for your unique folder. Replace every occurrence possible (you might not have permission to change some, that’s fine)
5. Steps 6-8 from Oz Edri’s answer
6. Reboot

answered Mar 29, 2022 at 14:12