Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal [2 Ways]

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• Why Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal?
• How to Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal Normally
• Easier Way to Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal
• ​Final Words

Why Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal?

OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are excellent and popular cloud storage services for individuals and businesses to save and manage different types of files. Both two are launched by Microsoft Office and users will find it easy to work with other Office apps such as OneNote, SharePoint, and so on. 

Frankly, users create different accounts for different purposes. For example, if you own a OneDrive account, you might save personal data and if you own a OneDrive for Business account, you would save business data. In this way, data can be organized and you can access the data you want as soon as possible. To make it easier to manage and access all different data, some people want to set up OneDrive and OneDrive for Business on the same computer. Besides, connecting OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal also has the following benefits, including:

1. Seamless File Sharing: Easily share files between your personal and work account without downloading and uploading files manually.

2. Free up Storage Space: Storing all files in your personal OneDrive account will consume all the limited storage space quickly, so using an OneDrive for Business account to store work-related files can help free up space in your personal account.

3. Improved Collaboration: After connecting your personal and work accounts, you can collaborate more easily with colleagues and clients by sharing files and folders across accounts.

Then, how to accomplish this target? In this article, you will learn 2 major and useful solutions to solve the problem. Continue to read, please!

How to Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal Normally

The first method is using the OneDrive desktop app to add a new account. The steps are very simple and you can get started by following the operations below:

Step 1: Launch your OneDrive desktop app on your computer, and press the Help & Settings > Settings.

Step 2: Go to Account on the upper ribbon and hit the Add an account button. Then add your OneDrive for Business account,

Step 3: After adding your accounts, you can then access them in the File Explorer.

Easier Way to Connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive Personal

If you want to add multiple OneDrive personal accounts and/or OneDrive for Business and manage them on the same computer, you should ask a professional cloud management service named MultCloud. As you can see from its name, MultCloud is a service that helps you manage multiple cloud accounts and/or services, such as Google Drive, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Dropbox Business, Dropbox, Flickr, MEGA, Amazon S3, Google Workspace, Google Photos and so on.

As a popular cloud file manager, MultCloud offers you wonderful features to make it easier to deal with your cloud services. For instance, you are able to share a folder on Google Drive, upload a folder to OneDrive, download a picture from Dropbox, and sync Google Photos to a PC. At the same time, you can also move, sync, and back up data from one cloud to another.

Thus, you only need to add these cloud accounts/services you use to MultCloud. And then you can access different cloud services with only one click. Then, you can manage the data on each cloud easily and quickly. So, how to connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive personal via MultCloud? You can follow the detailed operations in the following part.

Step 1: Create a MultCloud account for free on the browser. Or, you can log in with your Google account directly.

Step 2: Hit the Add Cloud tab on the left taskbar. Then click on the icons of OneDrive and OneDrive for Business and grant MultCloud permission. If you want to add more OneDrive/OneDrive for Business accounts, you can repeat the steps above to add them. The good thing is that MultCloud doesn't limit the number of how many clouds/cloud accounts you can add.

Step 3: Now, the adding cloud services/accounts will be displayed on the left taskbar. When you want to manage data on each cloud, you can head to them by clicking it.

As mentioned before, there are many features that you can take advantage of, such as transferring, syncing, and backing up files from one cloud to another without downloading and uploading. Specifically speaking:

Final Words

After reading the article, you now know how to connect OneDrive for Business to OneDrive personal accounts. Anyway, if you only wonder how to connect to OneDrive for Business and OneDrive on the same computer, you can utilize the OneDrive desktop app. And if you want to add multiple OneDrive and OneDrive for Business accounts on the same PC, then MultCloud is your best choice.

By using MultCloud, you not only can manage multiple cloud services and accounts easily, but also can make data migration between each other without downloading and uploading. When you want to turn to another cloud drive, this service is of great importance since you don't need to go through a troublesome download-and-upload process.