All student personal local storage drives (J: drives) will be disabled on January 31^st, 2025. It is recommended that users transfer any locally hosted data to OneDrive before this time.
After this deadline, any data left on these drives will be inaccessible.
OneDrive is a Microsoft cloud storage service, which comes bundled with your university Microsoft 365 student licensing.
Your OneDrive account already exists and is linked to your USCA email address.
Your login credentials to access OneDrive are the same as your university email account.

How to access OneDrive:

• OneDrive can be accessed at https://www.office.com/

• With the Microsoft OneDrive app, available in the Microsoft Store, users can quickly and easily access their files and folders.

• OneDrive storage: 60 GB for students / 110 GB for faculty

To transfer your files from shared drive to OneDrive, please follow the instructions below:

Files and Folders can be uploaded individually

1. In OneDrive found on the left task bar, click the My files tab
2. Click the + Add new button at the top. A drop-down window will reveal the upload options. Choose either the Files upload or Folder upload option
3. Once file explorer opens, navigate to your local drive. (This PC >> your_local_drive)
4. Select what you would like to upload
5. Click Open

Multiple files can be selected and uploaded at once

1. In OneDrive found on the left task bar, click the My files tab
2. Click the + Add new button at the top. A drop-down window will reveal the upload options. Choose the Files upload option
3. Once file explorer opens, navigate to your local drive. (This PC >> your_local_drive)
4. Click Organize, located at the top left corner
5. Next, click Select all. (Even if this highlights everything, only individual files will upload – not folders)
6. Finally, click Open

All files and folders can be moved into a single folder for speed and ease when transferring to OneDrive- assuming everything needs to be moved over:

First, outside of OneDrive, open file explorer

1. Navigate to your local drive.  (This PC >> your_local_drive)
2. Left click + drag your mouse to highlight everything in your local drive
3. Right click the highlighted folders/files
4. Select Cut

A Windows Security message may pop up: Opening these files might be harmful to your computer. Click OK.  Select Cut.

5. Off to the right or down at the bottom, right click – New > Folder.

6. Open the folder you just created, right click and paste
7. Now in OneDrive, found on the left task bar, click the My files tab
8. Click the + Add new button at the top. A drop-down window will reveal the upload options.
9. Choose the Folder upload option
10. Once file explorer opens, navigate to your local drive. (This PC >> your_local_drive)
11. Finally, select the New Folder you just created and click Open

If you have technical issues, please contact the USC Aiken Help Desk (http://help.usca.edu 803-641-3391 or [email protected])