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OneDrive for all my user profiles
When I got my new surface pro I went to set it up as recommended by some articles. First set up a user admin account. And also set up a standard user account for my daily access. Supposedly that was to facilitate security concerns. Well now I see that the Onedrive access from the two accounts are different. Headman account accesses all of my 4 gigabytes of Onedrive. But my standard user account seems to only access a small portion of my OneDrive. This is not convenient because the reason I use a Onedrive is to share files when I am signed in on my various but separate computers.
I have tried to figure out how to configure but cannot make it happen. As a sideline, I do not use OneDrive to back up any of my main computers. I only use Onedrive to make files and folders accessible to all my various computers when I am signed in.
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Each Windows account is isolated — OneDrive won’t automatically share files between them.
You can’t merge or automatically access the other user’s OneDrive unless you:
Log into that user account
Or share files manually between the accounts (via OneDrive's “Share” feature or Windows folder sharing).
You cannot run two OneDrive accounts in the same Windows profile unless:
One is a personal account. The other is a business/work/school account (OneDrive for Business).
-Thanks Nikolino. That is what I am finding out I have to go to the other account and somehow transfer whatever file/data I am looking for. I had thought (hoped) that since both accounts were created from within the same Microsoft Windows Live account (same username and same password) and on the same computer that they would be somehow linked. One was an admin user and the other was a standard user.
I will try the "sharing" scheme. Since my other computers are operated from a single admin user account, they all have a full access to all data in the Onedrive. So sharing is not required.
