Purpose: A guide to transfer files and folders from operational accounts' H drives and Onedrive to a single Microsoft Team
Environment: Any holder of an operational account transferring data to Teams
Consolidating Data
From the OneDrive App or H Drive
For Windows
- In your file explorer, create a new folder by right-clicking and selecting 'new' > 'folder'
- Move all files into this folder by highlighting all files (single click a file and press CTL+A), cutting them (CTL+X), open the new folder and paste (CTL+V)
For MacBook
- Create a new folder by right-clicking and selecting 'new' > 'folder'
- Move all files into this folder by highlighting all files (single click a file and press CMD+A), cutting them (CMD+X), open the new folder and paste (CMD+V)
From OneDrive Web
- Log into your Office 365 account online
- In the top left corner of your screen, click the App Launcher (should look like 9 little dots), then launch OneDrive.
- You can then choose to create a new file or folder, or upload one from your device.
From OneDrive to Teams
-Begin by creating a team on Microsoft Teams.
-Once your team has been created you can easily move files from your OneDrive folder into your team by creating a shortcut.
-Using the (...) icon located beside sync, open up the drop-down menu and select Add shortcut to OneDrive.
-When you view your OneDrive, a folder will appear where you can then drag and drop all of your OneDrive files that you wish to add to the team into the folder.
-After a couple minutes the files put into the folder will appear in your team's documents, if it does not work right away, exit your teams app and then re-launch.