Home Drive to OneDrive Migration for Macs

This guide will help you move your home drive files and folders to OneDrive. Please note, you'll need to be on a Mines network (or on VPN if you're off campus) to follow these steps.

Overview

  1. Add/map the home drive to your laptop (if that hasn't been done already).
  2. Downloading the Microsoft OneDrive for the App Store.
  3. Setting up your Mines OneDrive account.
  4. Copying the files and folders from your home drive to the OneDrive folder.


Adding/Mapping Home Drive to Your Mac Computer

If your home drive is not mapped, please follow step 1-5. If you do see a Z: Network Drive, please proceed to step 6.

  1. Select Go on your Mac.

Shows the GO option detailed in the steps

Shows the GO options

 

  1. Enter the path to your Home Drive as shown below. Click Connect.

Shows connecting to the Home drive with path

 

  1. Enter your credentials (username and password), when you are prompted.
  2. You will see your data in the Home Drive. Your home drive is now connected to Mac laptop. 

Shows you connected to the home drive

 

  1. You might also see the drive on your desktop, once it is connected.

Shows the network drive mappedD


Downloading Microsoft OneDrive

  1. Go to the App Store.
  2. Search for OneDrive and download.

Shows results of OneDrive in the app store

 

Setting up your Microsoft OneDrive account

  1. Open Microsoft OneDrive. Click the settings icon (looks like a gear) and click Preferences.

Shows OneDrive settings for OneDrive App

 

  1. Click on the Account tab.

Shows preference settings for OneDrive App

 

  1. Enter your account information (email address) and sign in.

  2.  

Shows logon screen

 

  1. Select use this folder.
  2. Click Next until you see a screen where you can select Later.

OneDrive config screen

 

Shows config for Mobile

 

  1. Your OneDrive is now set up.

Shows OneDrive folder on Mac

 

Copying Files and Folders From Your Home Drive to Your Mac OneDrive

  1. Highlight the files you're moving from your home drive and select copy.

Shows Home drive to copy files

 

  1. Open up your OneDrive folder.

Shows where to copy to in OneDrive

 

  1. Select the folder location in OneDrive you would like to copy your files to. In the example below, we've selected Test folder.

Shows test folder and menu options

 

  1. Right click in the folder you're moving your files to.
  2. Select paste.

Shows files you copied from Home Drive within the OneDrive folder

Once your files and folders are moved, OneDrive will automatically back them up to the cloud. You can access these files from any device with OneDrive set up or directly through the web.