M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

Making technology easier for people

Backing up your home folder to “files1”

The new system for backing up your Home folder from a Mac (or Documents & Settings from a PC) is working pretty well. We’ve run into a few glitches but on the whole it is running very smoothly.

Here’s what we have found so far:

Problem: Your password doesn’t work.
Fix: Go to https://password.lane.edu/
Enter your email password in all three password boxes (old and new). This syncs the passwords for the different systems.

Problem: When you transfer your home folder, you get a message saying that you do not have read privileges to some of the files in your library.
Fix: Tell it to copy the files anyway.

Problem: When you try to delete a file from the server, you get a message saying that it cannot be deleted because the file is locked.
Fix: Select the file, click command/I to open the “info” window. Open the “General” section and unchecked the “locked” box. Now you can delete the file.

 Uncheck the “locked” box

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