Oh man!  Are you tired of this giant screw-up with OneDrive (formerly known as SkyDrive)?  I’m tired of wasting my time with MS and reading their non-solutions.  When I found syncDriver referenced in the link above, I decided this might be the fix I’m looking for.  It’s small, it’s simple…and it’s an application…not a part of the operating system!

I installed it, fired it up, told it where to sync the files (c:\users\rwright\onedrive) in a folder I provisioned myself, and it was off to the races!

Look!  It has a user interface!  It actually tells you what’s going on!

Cool…options!  Exactly what you would expect.

And…oh boy…wait for this!  You can choose the folders you want to sync!

Need some proxy-ing to get in/out of your environment?  Thar it is!

Look, it’s in your tray…because it is…wait for it…an application!

And look-ee here.  It’s got a right-click menu…just like a reel application!

So far, so good.  More to come.

2014-06-25 Update:

syncDriver is operating well and I have moved all my documents from my “broken” SkyDrive folder in my old user profile to my new OneDrive, powered by syncDriver, folder in my new user profile.  I used WinDiff to compare the two directories to validate I wasn’t missing anything…except for those in the old SkyDrive folder that hadn’t been kept up-to-date.

2015-07-17 Update:

Okay, now to turn off the original OneDrive sync completely refer to this article.  Basically you are editing this registry setting.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Skydrive]
"DisableFileSync"=dword:00000001

2016-05-12 Update:

Well, my OneDrive has been broken on my Yoga for several months and I just got to looking at it.  syncDriver could not log into my OneDrive account.  However, my OneDrive account and my credentials were just fine.  I was getting an error, “Your IT department made a change that prevents you form syncing your personal OneDrive on this computer” when I viewed the OneDrive settings.  I uninstalled syncDriver, thinking I was going to get rid of it and try to go back to the MS OneDrive sync, but then found there’s a group policy that might be causing the problem.

In gpedit.msc (Group Policy editor) find this:  Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | OneDrive | Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage.  The default for me was Not Configured.  I changed it to Disabled and that appears to have made OneDrive available again. 

I re-installed syncDriver and it immediately started syncing once again.  Yay!

Best I can tell, moving the location of your OneDrive folder from one user profile folder to another doesn’t work.

Navigating to my SkyDrive (OneDrive) folder in my former user profile (c:\users\Russell)…

And attempting to change it to my new profile location, c:\users\rwright\onedrive…

Selecting “Yes…”

After a little while of Windows churning…

Just FYI, I’ve tried moving it to a folder named SkyDrive and OneDrive and both give the same results.

If it can’t be moved here, where can it be moved?  And why?

Here’s the response:

The reference for moving a OneDrive folder is exactly what I tried to do.

And more FAQ information:

So, what I want to do is use a new domain account for logging on to my PC and simply “link” my domain account to my existing OneDrive account.  Doesn’t sound like a big deal, does it?  Worked fine on Windows 7.

And then, in this OLD response, Edmond_A says to use the “Unlink” function, which of course he doesn’t detail where one finds it or how one runs it, but I can only assume it’s for Windows 7, since it’s so old.

If you go online, you can see how to remove PCs, but this appears to be for fetching files and is no longer supported on Windows 8.1, so this appears to be a dead end.  I’ll go ahead and remove Tabula from the list of PCs.

So if I go to the OneDrive settings, it is not obvious how to set an account for OneDrive to use.  Wouldn’t it make sense here to store the account OneDrive uses to log in?  Isn’t that how it worked on Windows 7?

When I look at my accounts under PC Settings on the metro side, it shows my domain account and my Microsoft account, but no where can I find how to link a OneDrive account back to my PC.

So my question remains.  How do I associate my domain account to my OneDrive account and move its current location, which is under my previous profile?  This should be easy, guys…