How to Transfer Data from your C Drive to your OneDrive

ITS strongly recommends that you save all of your work on the OneDrive, both to conserve space on your hard drive and to keep your data safely and securely backed up to the cloud so that your data is not lost if your hard drive or PC fails.

Instructions

1. Launch File Explorer - it’s the icon on your taskbar that looks like a file folder

   

2. Click on OneDrive - Seattle University

3. Position the window in such a way as to make space for another window that you can view at the same time, as well as leaving some blank space on the right side to drop files

   

4. Open a second File Explorer window by right-clicking the File Explorer icon and choosing File Explorer

   

5. In the second (newly opened) window, expand This PC by clicking >

   

6. Click on the various folders (Desktop, Documents, Dowloads, etc.) to display their contents on the right side of the window and begin dragging them from the C Drive window to the blank space in the OneDrive window. You may do them one at a time, or you may select all (Ctrl + A) to select all the files in the window and drag them all at once. Depending on the amount of data you are transferring, this may take a few minutes.
   

7. OPTIONAL: You may now choose to delete any of the copied files from your C Drive (to free space) as they are now safely saved to your OneDrive

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