Transfer Files Between Two Different OneDrive Accounts

“I need to transfer my OneDrive account from my former university account to my new one. I have tried some tools, but they charge $1/GB, and I have a few hundred GB of data. How can I transfer files from one OneDrive account to another free of charge?”

Necessity of Moving Files between OneDrive Accounts

Many people use OneDrive, an internet-based storage platform, to store their important files. Certainly, many people own more than one OneDrive account, for which they use different accounts to store different files, such as photos, videos, work documents, etc. Here are some benefits of transferring files from one OneDrive account to another:

Transfer Files from One OneDrive Account to Another with 4 Free Ways

You can copy files from one OneDrive account to another in four easy methods. Here we will show you the best free way first - using CBackup, a free cloud backup tool that can transfer files from one OneDrive account to another in minutes. Then, three more solutions will be introduced. You can download and re-upload files to achieve that, which could be time-consuming and cumbersome, but achievable, or use the Microsoft Power Automate Template. Let's get down to business.

Way 1. Best free way to Transfer Files from One OneDrive account to Another

To copy OneDrive files to another OneDrive account, you can turn to professional but free software, CBackup, to help you transfer files more quickly and simply.

CBackup is a cloud backup and sync service, which not only allows you to achieve automatically migrate OneDrive data to another OneDrive account for free but also supports transferring OneDrive files to other mainstream cloud storage providers, like Google Drive, Dropbox, FTP/SFTP, and so on. And there are no limitations to the size and speed of uploading files in CBackup.

Here is the step-by-step tutorial on how to move all files from one OneDrive account to another via CBackup.

Step 1. Get started with signing up for a CBackup account. And then, log in to CBackup desktop app.

Step 2. In the Storage tab, click on OneDrive and hit Authorize Now. Then, you need to grant CBackup to access your OneDrive files. After that, you can add another OneDrive account to CBackup by clicking + Add Cloud and repeating the cloud-adding steps.

Step 3. Go to the Sync tab > Sync Public Cloud to Public Cloud.

Step 4. Hit the New Task button then. And click on Add Source to select the targeted OneDrive account and tap Add Destination to select another OneDrive account.

Step 5. Click the Start Sync button to transfer OneDrive files to another account easily.

CBackup entitles office 365 to transfer OneDrive files to another user as well. Furthermore, you can combine two OneDrive accounts to get more OneDrive storage space for free with the CBackup desktop application.

If you are struggling to find a large backup space to store your important files, CBackup Cloud is an effective option. It offers 5GB of free storage space for each account, and you can upgrade to a huge storage space like 1TB or 5TB at a good price. CBackup also helps you backup files to OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc easily.

Way 2. Move Files Between OneDrive Accounts via Downloading and Uploading

Downloading files from one OneDrive account and re-uploading them to another OneDrive account is a manual way to move data from one OneDrive account to another. But there is a catch that the speed of files' download and upload is influenced by your network and Dropbox limits the size of uploading files to 250GB. To move files from one Microsoft account to another:

Step 1. Navigate to the OneDrive login page and sign in to it with your OneDrive credential.

Step 2. Select the files you want to migrate to another account and click the Download button (OneDrive for personal users can only download a single folder one time).

Step 3. Log out of your original account and log in with the account you want to transfer data.

Step 4. Tap on Upload to select Files or Folder to locate downloaded files and finish the uploads.

Way 3. Transfer OneDrive files to another account with Microsoft Power Automate

1. Please go to Microsoft Power Automate template website.

2. It will bring you to the page about copying files from one OneDrive account or folder to another information, click Try it now.

3. Sign in to your OneDrive account. Then it will take you to the following page. Then press the three dots icon, and click Add new connection, hit Continue if you added another OneDrive account.

4. Then specify the source folder from one OneDrive, and configure the destination folder on another OneDrive account, then click Save.

Notes:✎...

If you choose Root on both OneDrive accounts, it will transfer everything from one OneDrive account to Another.

You could choose the icon behind the Root to select some of the files and folders in OneDrive, then it will transfer files between OneDrive accounts.

Then your OneDrive flow is ready to go, you just need to test it. Then I just upload 1 file to My OneDrive, then after a while it has been synced to another OneDrive account.

As you can see, it’s quite difficult to operage for ordinary people who is not familiar with Microsoft Power Automate template. And this way only works for files, not folders, so, it’s not recommended.

Way 4. Transfer Files from One OneDrive Account to Another by Sharing

If you want to move OneDrive data to another account, you could share files from one OneDrive account to another one, then use it directly.

Here are the steps to move files between OneDrive accounts by sharing:

1. Please sign in your OneDrive account, and right-click the OneDrive files that you want to transfer, and click Share (or select the OneDrive files, and hit Share on the top).

2. Modify the link settings, like Anyone with the link or People you specify can edit, the email address, the message you want to send, etc.

3. Then the person you specified will save an email about the shared folder, then they can open it directly and download the shared folder to their computer.

Now, migrating OneDrive files to another account has been done successfully. And it's available to transfer OneDrive for Business to another account as well.

In the End

We have shared with you 4 workable ways to transfer files from one OneDrive account to another on this page. You can choose the right one according to your preference.

If you want to sync files between two OneDrive accounts more smoothly and promptly, you can try CBackup. Besides the transferring feature, it provides a cloud storage combination feature to merge OneDrive accounts effortlessly. It is worth having a try.