File Storage: Personal H: & I: Drives

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H: and I: drives (also referred to as Home and Web folders) provide UWF students, faculty, and staff with electronic storage space on the UWF server. The H: drive is a secure storage space for academic and work-related files. Files on the H: drive can only be viewed after logging in with your username and password. Saving to your H: drive is much like saving to your computer’s hard drive but with the added benefits of regular backups and the ability to access your files from any computer with an Internet connection. The I: drive is just like the H: drive, with one exception - I: is a web folder, so anything saved on the I: drive is posted to the Internet.

How to Open Your H: and I: Drives

Your H: and I: drives can be opened from File Storage in MyUWF. Links to H: and I: are also available in eDesktop, computer labs, and on many office computers. More advanced users can access their drives with Secure FTP.

Storage Limits

Students, faculty, and staff are allocated 500MB. This space can be split in any proportion between the H: and I: drives.

Web Page Hosting

Your I: drive is your personal web hosting space. This allows you to create a website for class, post your resume to the web, or just share information with friends. The I: drive works like a folder on your computer, except anything saved on the I: drive is posted to the Internet.

If you are interested in creating webpages on your I: drive, there are many software programs to help. Dreamweaver is available in eDesktop and select computer labs. Advanced web developers can request a data source (from Web Publishing in MyUWF) to create dynamic web pages. Instructions are available to include podcasts and videostreams on your website.

Recovering a Lost or Deleted File

The best reason to use your H: and I: drives is so that you can recover old versions of your files if the originals are accidentally lost or deleted.

The backups are stored in "snapshots." A snapshot is a read-only copy of your folders and files. When you open the snapshot, your folders and files appear as they were at the time that the snapshot was made. The folders you typically work from are referred to as your "active folders". Snapshots, which are taken on a regular basis, are shadow versions of your active folder. You can recover your own files, in almost all situations, by copying an older version from a snapshot folder into your "active" folder.