Home Drive to OneDrive Migration for Mac's

Overview: 

Colorado School of Mines are currently using home drives that are utilizing storage from a Cohesity appliance. This initiative will move the data from user’s home drive to the Microsoft OneDrive storage.

Standard Operating Procedure

  1. We will first add the home drive to the laptop if we do not have it mapped to your laptop
  2. Downloading the Microsoft OneDrive for the App Store
  3. Adding your Mines OneDrive account
  4. Copying the files from your home drive to the OneDrive folder

Mapping/Adding Home Drive

We will first connect to a server on the Mac laptop

Select "go" on your Mac

Shows the GO option detailed in the steps

Shows the GO options

Shows connecting to the Home drive with path

  1. Enter the path to your "Home Drive" as shown above
  2. Click on "Connect"
  3. Enter your credentials, when you are prompted
  4. You will see your data in the Home Drive

Shows you connected to the home drive

Your home drive is now connected to Mac laptop

Shows the network drive mapped

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

Downloading Microsoft OneDrive

Shows results of OneDrive in the app store

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

Setting up the Microsoft One Drive account

Shows OneDrive settings for OneDrive App

Click on Preference

Shows preference settings for OneDrive App

Click on the Account tab.

Shows logon screen

  1. Enter your account information (email address) and sign in
  2. Select use this folder

OneDrive config screen

Select Next again on other screens until the screen below and you can select "Later"

Shows config for Mobile

Shows end of config

Shows OneDrive folder on Mac

Copying data from Home Drive to your Mac OneDrive

Shows Home drive to copy files

Highlight the files from your home drive and select "copy"

Shows where to copy to in OneDrive

Select the location to copy it to. As an example, I am selecting "Test Folder"

Shows test folder and menu options

  1. Right Click in the "Test Folder"
  2. Select paste

Shows files you copied from Home Drive within the OneDrive folder