USING YOUR HOME DIRECTORY
(directions for staff using
their own classroom computer)
YOU CAN SAVE 3 PLACES… A FLOPPY DISK, YOUR
LOCAL COMPUTER’S HARD DRIVE, OR TO YOUR HOME DIRECTORY. FLOPPIES ARE VERY UNDEPENDABLE,
YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER’S HARD DRIVE IS MORE DEPENDABLE BUT COULD DIE ESPECIALLY IF
YOU HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER. YOUR HOME
DIRECTORY IS THE SAFEST PLACE TO STORE A COPY OF IMPORTANT FILES BECAUSE IT IS
BACKED UP ON TAPE EVERY SCHOOL DAY! IF
YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER DIES, EVEN IF THE SERVER DIES WE WILL HAVE YOUR FILES ON
TAPE. CONSIDER YOUR HOME DIRECTORY THE BEST
PLACE TO STORE COPIES OF YOUR WORK ALTHOUGH YOU
MAY WANT TO HAVE THEM ON YOUR LOCAL MACHINE TOO FOR CONVENIENCE. NEVER HAVE YOUR ONLY COPY OF A FILE ON A
FLOPPY.
IF SAVING A NEWLY
CREATED DOCUMENT
- Click
“File” then “Save As”.
- Pull
down menu in “Save In” box at top of “Save As” window and click “desktop”
at top of list.
- Double
click the folder name that is your files on server. (Your name should appear in the “Save
In” box at the top now)
- Name
the file and click the save button or press the enter key.
IF RE-SAVING A
DOCUMENT AFTER EDITING
- If the
file was opened from your home directory and then modified click “file”
then click “save” and it saves the changes under the same file name in the
same place it was opened from. (or
just click the little picture of a floppy disk on the toolbar, it does the
same thing)
COPY A LIST OF FILES
FROM A FOLDER ON YOUR LOCAL MACHINE TO YOUR HOME DIRECTORY
- Right
click on the start button and click “explore”.
- In the
left pane navigate (click on +’s to expand the tree) to the folder that
contains the files you want to transfer and click on the name of the
folder to display it’s files in the right pane.
- Highlight
with a single click the files you wish to transfer. (Hints: Hold down the
control key while clicking on them to choose more than one file randomly
in the list. If selecting a bunch
of files that are consecutive, click the first file and then click the
last file while holding the shift key to highlight all in between. If you wish to select all the files in
the right pane the easiest way is to press the ‘A’ key and the ‘control’
key simultaneously.)
- Once
the files you wish to transfer are highlighted from step 3 right click on
any one of them and click ‘copy’.
- Minimalize the “explore” window by clicking the ‘-‘ sign at the top right and right click the shortcut on
your desktop to your home directory.
Click ‘paste’.
- You
can then close out of “explore’
HOW TO VIEW OR OPEN
FILES IN YOUR HOME DIRECTORY
- Just
click the shortcut on your desktop to your home directory and you’ll see
the list of files you have in your home directory.
- Double
click on any file to open it.