However if you login, either when prompted on startup, or by right-clicking the OneDrive icon in the Taskbar (I logged into my personal OneDrive on my Windows 10 PC) then it synchronises with that OneDrive in the cloud, and what appeared to be four OneDrives now become three.Ĭan I access more than one OneDrive simultaneously? You see Windows 10 comes with a OneDrive app already installed, but unless you log in to one of your OneDrive accounts (at which point the icon shows a green tick on it), it works simply as a local drive, so it looks like it’s an entirely separate OneDrive from the others. A Windows 10 PC at home – my home machine – I login to this machine with my personal Microsoft account, but I’ve installed O365 using one of the five O365 computer licenses available to my business account.įor a while I thought I had a fourth OneDrive.A MacBook Pro at home, for my own business, with O365, OneDrive and apps paid for by my business.A MacBook Pro at my client, with O365, apps and OneDrive paid for by my client.

I suspect this is also 1TB, but given that it’s a 400+ employee company and it’s using Office 365 (O365) with Exchange in the cloud it may well have even more online space than that. And finally I have one provided by the company for which I’m doing some work at the moment – I’ll call this my “client” account. This gives me a 1TB OneDrive for Business. I don’t have just one OneDrive, I have three: one for my personal account (which is free, and therefore 5GB), one for my business account, with which I pay for Office 365. However there are some wrinkles and it’s taken me a while to work them out. You can choose which folders to synchronise, or to synchronise all of them (which is the default action). This then shows up as a local drive on your PC or Mac which appears in Explorer/Finder and which is synchronised with the cloud version.

In principle, it’s very straightforward – OneDrive is a cloud drive, the size of which depends on how much you pay for it, but it’s at least 5GB for a free account.

Finally, I think I’ve got the idea of Microsoft OneDrive, and it works!

Onedrive for business user guide