OneDrive — Your Personal File Storage

Applies to: CRL staff with an assigned OneDrive license  |  Category: Files & Storage  |  Est. time: 5 minutes

Your personal files live in Microsoft OneDrive — a secure cloud storage space provided to individually licensed CRL users. OneDrive lets you store and back up your files, share and collaborate on documents, and sync files to your CRL computer so they’re available on the web and offline.

Most of your files sync to OneDrive automatically, including files on your Desktop and in your Documents and Pictures folders. It’s also the default save location for your Office apps, including:

• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Visio

Opening OneDrive

Open File Explorer from the taskbar icon on your desktop:

— or type “OneDrive” in the search bar:

Once open, select OneDrive in the left pane:

Using OneDrive

Use OneDrive just like any other folder — open, save, move, and organize files as usual. Changes sync to the cloud automatically.

Note — .zip files

The OneDrive web interface cannot unzip .zip files. To open a zipped file, use the OneDrive desktop app: in your synced OneDrive folder, right-click the .zip file, choose Extract All, and the contents will be unzipped on your computer.

Learn more

For Microsoft’s full OneDrive help and training, see OneDrive help & learning (Microsoft Support).

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