
If you add, change, or delete a file or folder on the OneDrive website, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted in your OneDrive folder and vice versa. This folder is kept in sync with OneDrive.
To more easily locate the files on your computer, click the OneDrive icon and select Open Folder and your OneDrive - Bowdoin College folder will open with all of the files that are syncing up to OneDrive.When you install the Microsoft OneDrive sync app for Mac, a copy of your OneDrive is downloaded to your Mac and put in the OneDrive folder. Once complete, if you click on the OneDrive icon you will see a notification that all files are in sync. Once complete, if you had any folders to sync, they'll download. Any file or folder you place in your local OneDrive folder will automatically sync up to OneDrive online. If there are no folders or files listed, you're all set. Folders will only show up if there are folders in OneDrive online. Select any listed folder(s) you'd like to have sync with OneDrive. Click Next and continue through Get to Know Your OneDrive tutorial.
Macintosh HD\Users\UserName\OneDrive - Bowdoin College if using MacOS. C:\Users\UserName\OneDrive - Bowdoin College if using Windows. It is our recommendation to keep the default location as presented. You will be brought to the Bowdoin login page. Choose the option Work or School if presented with an option. Enter you Bowdoin email address in the field available on the "Set up OneDrive" window shown below. (If the OneDrive cloud icon disapprears, wait 30 seconds for the application to update and then launch the application again.) A window will appear letting you know that OneDrive isn't set up.
Click on the OneDrive icon either in the Task Tray in Windows, the Finder bar in MacOS or by launching the application itself on either OS. Follow these steps to configure the basic sync settings. ConfigurationĬonfiguration of the OneDrive client is similar for both MacOS and Windows. If you are on a personal computer that does not have the OneDrive sync client, you can download and install it here. SetupĪll Bowdoin computers should have the OneDrive sync client installed. If you see the OneDrive sync client's cloud icon in the Task Tray on Windows 10 or in the Finder menu bar in MacOS then you can skip to the configuration step below. In most classrooms, computer labs and faculty and staff workstations the sync client is already installed. In order to synchronize documents from OneDrive online to a local computer, the sync client needs to be installed and setup.