How to transfer ownership of OneDrive files and folders

OneDrive lacks native support for transferring the ownership of files and folders. Additionally, some of the workarounds familiar to SharePoint users, such as giving another user full access to an item and then removing or downgrading yourself, do not work with OneDrive.

You can, however, effectively transfer the ownership of files or folders in OneDrive with a trick — though there are limits.

By making a parent folder, placing content within it, and sharing the parent folder with a user, another…