At the beginning of August IT implemented a change to how users who traditionally have used an "X drive" type system to save documents.
We announced the change via email and on our intranet site https://smuconnect.sharepoint.com/sites/it
Implications:
Your “Documents folder” location is what is, in the above article, referred to as “On-premises home Directory”. So many of your Word, excel, powerpoint and pdfs, etc, have been saving in your documents folder up until perhaps very recently.
This document applies to you if you are running into errors saying “You do not have permission to save” at this location or getting “read-only” access errors saving your documents where they are saving to by default.
Where to save documents now:
You should have OneDrive installed and available on your PC. The icon looks like this in the lower right or in your list of programs:
Be sure you are signed in to the above OneDrive application with your SMU account, and don’t see any red X’s or errors there (solid blue or spinning white and blue syncing).
Let's look at your existing documents structure in your file explorer:
If you look under Quick access and under this PC, you'll be familiar with seeing “Documents” or “My Documents” listed there. These are your Documents folders that may be mapped to the old X drive Home Directory:
You should see OneDrive for Samuel Merritt University. Let's look in that folder, click on that there:
Next, find the folder below, and double click, it should list a “My Documents" folder inside a "Migrated Home Directory" folder:
This is where your documents are now, and can be open from, saved to, and moved to for safe backup.
Final suggestions:
On the left under Quick access, you can right click the existing Documents folder and select “Unpin from Quick Access”:
Next, double click the above My Documents folder inside Migrated_Home_Directory. Then, right click “Quick Access” and select “Pin current folder to Quick Access”:
