How to Set Up OneDrive Connections

FileZilla Pro supports OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.

Below you find a step by step guide, if you prefer you can watch our How to Upload Files to OneDrive video tutorial.

To connect to OneDrive, make sure you have the following:

• A OneDrive account
• Your OneDrive login details (these will usually be the same as your Microsoft login)

Configuring FileZilla Pro for OneDrive

Please follow the next steps to configure FileZilla Pro to connect to OneDrive.

1. In the menu bar, click on File › Site Manager…. See Using Site Manager for more details.
2. Click on New Site.
3. Select Microsoft OneDrive from the Protocol drop down list.



4. Optionally enter a login as a hint for Microsoft authentication.
5. Click on Connect.
6. FileZilla Pro launches the default browser, then you need to authenticate and grant access.



Enter your credentials to continue.

7. OneDrive asks to grant access.



Click Yes.

8. An authorization code is generated.



Copy the code to the clipboard or click the Copy to clipboard button.

9. Paste the code in the Authorization window or click the Paste from clipboard button.



10. FileZilla Pro will check the server’s TLS certificate and display a window like this:



Check the server certificate details displayed – Common name should include microsoftonline.com.

Click OK.

11. Your OneDrive directories and files will be displayed in the Remote directories section of the main window.
    

    

    If your OneDrive account is a personal OneDrive account you will see the following directories:

    • My Drives, with your personal OneDrive drives;
    • Shared with Me, with items shared with you by other users.

    If your account is OneDrive for Business account you will also see:

    • the directory Groups with your organization group drives;
    • SharePoint with your organization SharePoint drives;
    • Sites with your organization site drives

You can now transfer files between your local machine and your OneDrive account.

Can I move files directly between an FTP server and OneDrive?

Not directly — there’s no server-to-server transfer that skips your computer, in FileZilla Pro or any other client. Files still have to pass through your machine: download from your FTP server, then upload to OneDrive. What FileZilla Pro removes is the friction around that round trip. Save both connections in Site Manager — your FTP or SFTP server as one site, OneDrive as another — and switch between them in the same window, so the download-then-upload takes a few clicks instead of needing FileZilla for one half and a separate OneDrive app or browser upload for the other.

Is OneDrive an FTP server? Can I use OneDrive as an FTP server?

No — OneDrive does not speak the FTP protocol, and you can’t point a generic FTP client at a OneDrive address the way you would at an FTP host. FileZilla Pro connects to OneDrive through Microsoft’s own API instead, selectable as its own protocol in Site Manager alongside FTP, FTPS, and SFTP, so it behaves like any other saved connection even though OneDrive itself has no native FTP interface. The same applies to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint — see Access to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for the organization-account setup.

The video tutorial below shows how to connect to OneDrive with FileZilla Pro.

Video tutorial: How to connect to OneDrive

• How to access Microsoft OneDrive for Business and SharePoint