Manually Backing Up User Profile Data

Objective

Backing up your computer user profile data to another location

Users

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Students

Before You Begin

Locate data and prepare to move data to an external hard drive, OneDrive/SharePoint, or another location.

Common Locations with Data

These are some general folders or items that may need to be backed up, however there may be additional folders depending on where data has been saved:

  1. Desktop folder - C:\Users\(Your username)\Desktop
  2. Documents folder - C:\Users\(Your username)\Documents
  3. Downloads folder - C:\Users\(Your username)\Downloads
  4. Pictures folder - C:\Users\(Your username)\Pictures
  5. Bookmarks - Export bookmarks from your browser of choice - Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Etc.
    1. Bookmarks can be imported into the same browser in a new profile
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