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OneDrive User Guide for Android

Please note that OneDrive can use up a lot of mobile data – so make sure you’re connected to Wi-Fi before using this app to avoid running out of data. OneDrive User Guide for Android

OneDrive is automatically installed on your device, open the OneDrive application & tap “Sign in” at the bottom of the screen – it should automatically log you in, if not please enter your normal BHCC Email Address & password. How to turn on Automatic Camera Upload

OneDrive gives you the ability to back up your photos & videos automatically to OneDrive so if you lose your phone you’ll have a backup online – its recommended that all users enable this feature. 1. To enable this feature please tap on the “Me” (bottom-right corner) button and then tap “Settings”.

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2. Tap on “Camera Upload”. 3. Tap on “Camera upload account” & select your email address account. 4. Now toggle the “Camera upload” button then tap “Confirm” & “Confirm” again. Then tap “Allow” for access to the photos on your device.

OneDrive will now automatically back up (on Wi-Fi) all the Photos & Videos that are on your Android to your OneDrive BHCC Account (may take a while to upload everything on your phone depending on the size of the files).

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To confirm what photos & videos have been backed up to OneDrive successfully, you can double check this by going to this link on any BHCC device & signing in with your BHCC Email Address & password: https://brightonandhovecc-my.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/MySite.aspx?MySiteRedirect=AllDocuments

You will see all the files that have been stored on your OneDrive account, these can be shared with anyone in BHCC by clicking on a file and select “Share”. You can see the photos & videos that have been backed up from your device by clicking on the folder “Pictures” “Camera Roll”. OneDrive automatically arranges your photos & videos by Year & Month, so within the “Camera Roll” folder, you should see the current year, e.g. “2020” then click on the relevant month you want to see, e.g. “07” for July.

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How to share a Video/Photo from your Android through OneDrive If you have “Automatic Camera Upload” enabled as shown above, then please connect to Wi-Fi and you should be able to find the photo or video you need to share by going directly to OneDrive “Pictures” “Camera Roll” “2020” (Year you took the photo/video) “07” (Month you took the photo/video) as shown below. If you can’t see the photo or video within OneDrive, then you will have to manually upload the file to OneDrive.

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First, select what folder within OneDrive you want to upload your file to (e.g. Pictures), then

tap the “+” button (top-right corner) and select “Upload”.

This then shows your Android’s Photos and Videos, select the file that you want to upload/share then tap “Done”. This will start uploading the file to your selected folder, please wait as it can take some time (please connect to Wi-Fi). Once the file has finished uploading it will eventually appear in the folder you selected above & a notification will appear on the screen.

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Now select the file you want to share by

tapping the “…” button to the right of the

file then tap “Share”

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Now simply enter the name or email address of the person(s) you want to share the file with.

You also have the option to change settings on the link you’re sending by selecting “People you specific can edit” - such as “Allow Editing”, then tap “Send”.

The user will receive an email stating you’ve shared a file with them. You will then receive a confirmation email once the user has opened your link to the Photo/Video.