Suggestions to Users

  • See someone from the tech team to help you in person
  • Please remember that moving files into a folder does not change their status; they still take up K and MEG
  • 1,000 bytes (keystrokes) = 1 K (kilobytes) and 1,000K = 1 megabytes ... 1000 meg = 1 gigabyte
  • most of you have between 5 megabytes and 500 megabytes on our system ... we do not want anyone to have more than 200 megabytes on our system
  • you can have up to 1 gigabyte on our file server ... any Chapin employee can have an account
  • please see http://gatornet.chapin.edu/~techmsus/servers/ for more info and send a note to HELP if you wish to have a file server
  • typical e-mails take up 5-10 K, so storing 1000 such e-mails would be 10,000K which is 10 meg
  • even storing 5000 such e-mails would only be 50,000K which is 50 meg
  • since we give each FacStaff user 200 meg, it is generally not text e-mails which cause the problem
  • storing hundreds of graphics or dozens of videos usually is the problem
  • Files in your mailbox, in sub-folders or on your desktop all count as part of your storage allocation; however files in public conferences or FacStaff conferences do NOT count as part of the storage allocation
  • Each FacStaff member can have a portfolio which can be useful for extra storage ... the portfolio does NOT count against your account
  • there is a wonderful feature called SUMMARIZE SELECTED under the MESSAGE MENU which can be used to take hundreds of e-mails (perhaps to parents) and combine then into ONE Microsoft Word document that can then be saved on your computer and backed up onto your file server
  • Click here to see what a user sees when he/she tries to send e-mail (when over the limit)
  • Click here to see what others see when sending e-mail to someone who is over the limit
  • We have accounts on www.box.net that can provide you with 500 meg of disk space accessible from any machine that can get onto the Web (home or school) ...

Current Limits for Fac/Staff

 

Last updated 07.07.07

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