Saving your Work
The most important factor is saving your work. Queen's provides a fully backed up service, the Q: Drive. On campus save your work to the Q: drive. The files on the Q:drive are accessible from outside Queen's via Queen's Online.
Every Queen's student is allocated 200Mb of personal space on the Queen's network.
How do you access the Queens drive outside Queens?
Within Queen's Online click on Files QDrive - this gives you access to Queen's Drive Web Access where you can upload and down your files. Learn about how to use Queen's Drive Web Access: Queen's Drive off-campus [PDF].
How reliable are USBs?
USBs can not be considered totally reliable while working at a PC as they will eventually fail so only copy the saved files to the USB when you are about to logoff. Please note that on a USB, applications such as Microsoft Word create a number of temporary files which are only removed when you exit, and, if you are editing directly to a USB, there is a risk that the device will fill and you will lose all the changes that you have made.
Are there any other alternatives?
Although it is recommended that you use your Queens drive to store documents related to your course at Queen’s, you may wish to avail of cloud computing services provided by companies such as
- Google Docs http://docs.google.com
- Microsoft SkyDrive http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/download or
- Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com)
