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Once you have signed into OneDrive and have it set up on your PC you are ready to start using it. We highly recommend using the PC Backup setting to automatically add all of your Desktop, Documents, and Photos folders to OneDrive but if desired you can add files to OneDrive manually by following this guide. This guide is also how you would move for moving any file or folder to OneDive OneDrive that is outside of your PC’s backed up Desktop, Documents, and Photos folders.
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In one window navigate to the documents you want to add to OneDrive (I will be moving some files in the downloads folder as an example) and in the other open your newly set up OneDrive folder.
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Now we will begin moving over the files to the new OneDrive folder. To do this we you will want to select the files in the folder you are moving fromyou want to move, and then either click and drag them over to the OneDrive folder or right-click on them, select Cut and then Paste them in the OneDrive folder.
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Once you have moved the files and folders they will start to upload/sync to OneDrive. If you moved a large amount of files this step will take a fair amount of time. While waiting you can continue to use the computer for normal tasks as it syncs. You can track the sync progress and confirm that it is done using this guide: Monitoring OneDrive Sync Progress & Troubleshooting.