How to Migrate from Dropbox to OneDrive Effortlessly

A cloud drive helps access data from any geographical location, and is a highly secure and reliable mode. Some of the popular cloud drives these days are Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Each one of these has their own pros and cons.

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OneDrive is integrated with the Windows system as it is developed by Microsoft itself. This is the reason many people these days tend to prefer it over other cloud drives. This article teaches how to safely migrate your precious data from Dropbox to OneDrive with ease. The solution provided only works on platforms where both OneDrive, and Dropbox apps work.

Solution : Sync through Local File System

Syncing data through a local file system is quite useful to migrate certain files, and automate file synchronization. In the previous example with Mover, every root folder along with their files will be migrated to the destination location. This process has to be done over and over again whenever a file or a folder is added to Dropbox. In terms of productivity, this might not be ideal if someone wants to use both Cloud Drives without migrating all of their data from Dropbox. This solution is for those who want to keep both drives, and migrate files from Dropbox to OneDrive from time to time, or more often, automate the process.

Open up File Explorer, and then check whether the Navigation pane is opened. If it’s not opened, then enable it through the View option.

Once the Navigation pane has been opened, scroll through the list to find both Dropbox, and OneDrive folders. Since this guide is about migrating Dropbox files to OneDrive, it assumes both folders already exist in the file system.

Open up both the OneDrive, and Dropbox apps from the start menu. OneDrive is already a part of Windows 10 operating system; hence it is not needed to install it, but Dropbox app has to be installed if it doesn’t exist in the operating system. Download Dropbox from this URL https://www.dropbox.com/.

Once Both apps are installed, open them via the Start menu.

Navigate to the Dropbox folder, copy all the data you want to move to OneDrive. Now navigate to the OneDrive folder and paste all the copied files, and folders. As long as both apps are open, they will sync their status with their cloud systems, which means all the files that used to be in Dropbox will be migrated to OneDrive once the sync process concludes successfully. If you want to remove files from Dropbox after they have been pasted in OneDrive, migrating, it is better to use the cut option rather than copy, because cut moves files.