Map OneDrive as a network drive in Windows 10

You may not know, but one of the biggest advantages of using OneDrive is its great feature, called a placeholder.This feature allows OneDrive clients on your Windows computer to display all files and folders in the cloud, and when you try to open a file, the file will be downloaded immediately from the cloud.However, this feature has been deleted in Windows 10.

The good news is that this feature can return to Windows 10 in the upcoming RedStone build.From now on, if you are a fan of OneDrive's placeholder feature, you can completely replicate this feature by adding OneDrive as a network drive in Windows.

It can be said that this is a good way because you will not have to sync each file on your local machine, but you can access all files with just one or two clicks as if they were in Your local memory.This approach can also be deployed with Windows 7.

Map OneDrive as a network drive in Windows 10

To map OneDrive as a network drive in Windows, you need to have your specific OneDrive account ID.Log in to your OneDrive account and in the browser address bar, you'll find your account ID.The path ID you need to use will look like this:https://onedrive.live.com/?id=root&cid=xxxxxxxxxxx.

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Next, open some text editors, copy the URL below and replace 'yourUniqueID' with the ID you see in the OneDrive URL.

https://d.docs.live.net/yourUniqueID

Once you have the necessary URL, open File Explorer with the Win + E shortcut, select the Computer tab, and then select the Map Network Drive option.

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This will open the Map Network Drive window. Here, you select the drive letter, enter the unique URL you created earlier in the Folder field and click the Finish button to continue to the next step.

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As soon as you click the Finish button, Windows will start the connection.

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After the connection is successfully established, you will be asked to enter your username and password.Before clicking the OK button, don't forget to check the Remember my credentials section so that you don't have to enter your username and password every time you need to access the network drive.

Note : if you are using two-factor authentication, you should use an application-specific password instead of your regular account password.You can create application-specific passwords using this link.

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Now, you have successfully set up OneDrive as a network drive in Windows.Don't worry about disk usage statistics on network drives because they simply reflect statistics on your C drive.

From this point, you will be able to access your OneDrive account and all files and folders directly from your File Explorer without having to worry about losing space by having to sync all files .

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If you think the default name of the OneDrive network drive seems a bit boring, you can rename it.To rename the OneDrive network drive, just right-click on the drive and select the Rename option and enter the new name you want to set.

Good luck!

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