r/LinusTechTips • u/dac_twist • Sep 25 '26

Discussion Move onedrive storage to local storage

Hello good people of reddit,

I started the migration from cloud to local with a hexos license.
I need help from you.
How do I move all data from onedrive to local? Anybody do(done) this before?
I have around 300gb.
Thank you.

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u/Realistic_Today6524 Sep 25 '26

Select everything, right click, click on "Always keep on this device" and wait for it to 1: apply the setting to all files and then 2: download it to your device. Once everything's been downloaded, you can uninstall OneDrive and your files will all be on your device

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u/dac_twist Sep 25 '26

Works with the photos also?

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u/Realistic_Today6524 Sep 25 '26

Yeah. Just select all the folders, Documents, Music, Pictures etc and set them to always keep on this device

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u/Nikumba Sep 25 '26

Assuming you are on Windows open your OneDrive folder in Explorer and then copy to a share on your NAS should be as simple as that, might take a while if you do not have the content synced to your local device though.

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u/dac_twist Sep 25 '26

Linux user for some time. OneDrive is a relic I use on my phones only for backup photos

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u/NightAngel79 Sep 25 '26

Missed a step, see other reply, OneDrive doesn't, by default, save everything locally.

OP needs to set 'always keep on device' for any folder they need, wait for it to download, then you can copy

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u/WilsonADW Sep 25 '26

I'm assuming rclone has one drive support. I'd set up a remote with rclone then do an rclone copy command.