Open OneDrive (it should be installed by default). Note: Windows 7 users will need to manually download OneDrive from Microsoft.
Enter your username@uwaterloo.ca to login. (Your username is your 8-character UWaterloo username, e.g. j25rober).
Click Sign in.
You will be redirected to a University of Waterloologin page.
Verify that your email address is entered as username@uwaterloo.ca (Your username is your 8-character UWaterloo username, e.g. j25rober)
Enter your password.
Click Sign in.
You will be redirected back to the OneDrive application. Select Next
Choose which files and/or folders you want to sync from your account and click Next. All selected files and folders will be copied locally from OneDrive. All new files placed in here will sync to your OneDrive account.
You should see this screen once an account is successfully added. If you would like to open your OneDrive folder, click Open my OneDrive folder. Otherwise, close the window.
OneDrive Files on Demand helps you access all your files in OneDrive without having to download all of them and use storage space on your Windows device. To see how to turn on Files on Demand, mark a file as offline or online-only use, take a look at Microsoft's article Save disk space with OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows 10.
If you don't want to sync all of your folders in OneDrive to your computer, you can specify which folders you'd like to sync. Take a look at Microsoft's article Save disk space with OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows 10
Please refer to the article https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISTKB/pages/2106130444/Troubleshooting%2B-%2BOneDrive%2Bwon%2Bt%2BOpen
Visit the Microsoft OneDrive Download page
Click Download
Run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen prompts.
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