Online Storage: Education (EDUC) Netdrive

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Please create only one folder named after your NetlinkID and try to keep all of your data in that one folder. If you need to share a folder, you may either change the permissions on your personal folder or create an additional folder using your Netlink ID as a name with "share" after it.

Please do your part to keep the clutter down by keeping your files inside your NetlinkID named folder. Please delete all work that is no longer required in order to free up disk space for yourself and others.

We strongly advise against opening files or working directly from the netdrive. Aside from being much slower, corruption and complete loss of data may occur. We recommend downloading files to the local computer, working from the local copies, and then uploading files to the netdrive when done.

If your files are very large and take a long time to down/upload, see the section on "Local Student_Files storage" below.

If your files are very large and take a long time to down/upload, you can save your work to a special "Student_Files" folder located at the top level of the harddrive (on both Mac and Windows sides.) Folders and files located in the "Student_Files" folder will not be deleted when you logout!

There is a shortcut to this folder on the Desktop. To setup this folder:

• Windows: Just open the Student_Files folder and create a new folder (named with your NetlinkID).
• Mac: Launch (double-click) the "Create a Local Secure Folder" application. A folder will be created in "Student_Files" named with your NetlinkID.

The contents of folders saved in the local "Student_Files" (if you followed the above setup) will:

• only be accessible by you;
• only be accessible on the specific station you created them on;
• will normally be left until the end of term (like other "Student-..." folders) and then deleted sometime in late April, August and December.

Warnings: Folders and files located in a local "Student_Files" folder:

• are not backed up;
• may be deleted at anytime by lab staff if the station is running out of harddrive space (older files usually deleted first) or the computer needs to be rebuilt;
• will not be backed up by lab staff if they are going to be deleted.

We recommend using the online storage on the EDUC netdrive to backup your local files.

WARNING: All folders and files located in any "Student-..." folders (including Course and local Student_Files folders) will be deleted at the end of each term (late April, August, December.) See the "Where did my files go?" tab.

• Repeated disregard of the terms of use will result in your loss of access to the Student Folder.
• Do not remove or alter the permissions associated with "Administrators", "Domain Admins", "EducLabs" or "SYSTEM" from your files or folders.
• By default, only the System Administrators and yourself will have access to your files and folders; you may grant additional rights to other UVic Netlink IDs if you choose; this is particularly handy for collaborating on group projects.
• fFiles that are offensive in any way, or are clearly in violation of copyright, will be removed immediately upon discovery or complaint.
• Folder names which are offensive in any way, or are longer then 30 characters, will be renamed immediately upon discovery or complaint; the renamed item will include your Netlink ID as part of the new name.
• Do not use special characters, blank spaces, numbers, extra "a" or "z" characters and so on to name your files and folders. Long file and folder names which fall outside of this convention may be renamed without warning - the renamed item will include your Netlink ID as part of the new name.
• Files which are left laying around inside the main folder will be moved to the "_TO_BE_DELETED_" folder on a periodic basis and without warning.