With Finder selected (click anywhere on your desktop), click on Go in the menu bar along the top of the screen and then select Home from the dropdown menu to access your local user profile, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + H. You can launch File Explorer by pressing Windows Key + E on your keyboard, which works for all versions of Windows. To locate your local user profile, open File Explorer on your computer, type %userprofile% into the path bar, and press Enter. P: Drive Step 1 - Locate Your User Profile Windows If you have questions about these procedures or run into difficulties executing them, contact your Computing Coordinator. Instructions are included for both Windows and Macintosh. This article will show you how to back up your computer's local user profile, which is stored on your computer's hard drive, to either your P: drive, Google Drive, or an external device such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive.
