Self-migration of Box to OneDrive

Microsoft365-OneDrive Purdue-Box OneDrive

Overview

Instructions on moving content from your Purdue Box acount toMicrosoft OneDrive.

Instructions

If you have Box and/or OneDrive software already synced to your machine, you may simply drag and drop the contents from your Box folder to your OneDrive folder on your machine and allow it to sync.

The above option will take a potentially substantial amount of hard drive disk space, and may not be feasible. The recommendation is to first download content from Box and then upload to OneDrive via web browser. Note that depending on the amount of content and available drive space on your machine, you may need to do this in batches (a few folders or files at a time). NOTE: This method is not to be used with sensitive / restricted (REED) content. This content may remain where it is; If there is a need to migrate this content, please contact Purdue IT at it@purdue.edu

Sign-in to https://purdue.box.com in one browser
Open another browser, and sign-in to https://onedrive.microsoft.com
Download the target content from Box, by selecting the ellipsis next to the file or folder and then choose “download”:

The next steps outline how to upload the content into your OneDrive folders:

Open the browser that you’ve signed into OneDrive at in the previous steps
Select “Create or upload” in the top-left
Select the appropriate option (Files upload or folder upload)
Navigate to and select the appropriate content. In this example, we’ve downloaded a folder from Box that now needs to be uploaded to OneDrive
Click the “Upload” button when ready
Select “Upload” again
Locate the content and ensure it is accurate and completely uploaded
When finished, you may remove the downloaded content from your PC