Synopsis:
Mac OS X: How to copy your H: drive files to your computer when you leave Princeton

Solution:
Your H: drive may contain up to 5 gigabytes of files and folders. Before your account at Princeton is closed, be sure to copy your files and data to your own computer and download them from the server. To find out when your OIT accounts will be terminated after leaving the University, see Solution 5855.

If you have already left Princeton and cannot access the Princeton network, you will need to use VPN (Virtual Private Networking) to connect to your H: drive. If you are still on campus, skip this step.

VPN to the campus network
In order to access the Central File Server from off-campus, you must first connect to the Princeton domain using a VPN (Virtual Private Networking) connection. To establish a VPN connection on your Mac, see Solution 9278 for detailed instructions with graphics.

Mount your H: drive

• OS 10.4 instructions
  Connect to your Central File Server files (H: drive).

1. With the Finder active, select Connect to Server... from the Go menu (or from the keyboard use Command-K)
2. In the Connect to Server window, type the following in the Address field: smb://yourNetID@files.princeton.edu/yourNetID
3. Click the Connect button
4. You will be presented with the SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication window
5. In the Workgroup/Domain field, type Princeton
6. Enter your University netID for Username
7. Enter your University password
8. The mapped drive will appear on your desktop where you can interact with it like any other folder on your hard drive.

• OS 10.5 instructions
  Connect to your Central File Server files (H: drive).

1. With the Finder active, select Connect to Server... from the Go menu (or from the keyboard use Command-K)
2. In the Connect to Server window, type the following in the Address field: smb://yourNetID@files.princeton.edu/yourNetID
3. Click the Connect button
4. An authentication window will pop-up prompting you to enter your username and password to access the file server "files.princeton.edu"
5. Choose to connect as a registered user
6. For name enter Princeton\yourNetID
7. For password enter your University password
8. Click Connect

The mapped drive will appear on your desktop where you can interact with it like any other folder on your hard drive

How to copy your H: drive files to your local computer

1. Create a new folder on your desktop. Title it something identifiable; for this example, the folder will be called My Princeton files.
   

2. Next, double-click on your H: drive. The mapped drive will look like one of these two icons:
   (for OS 10.4)   (for OS 10.5)

3. The window that appears contains all the files that exist in your Central File Server directory.

4. Try to consolidate your personal files by moving them all into one or two folders; in the example below all documents have been moved into a folder called My Documents.

5. Move your windows around so that you see both your H: drive folders and the new folder on your desktop. Drag your H: drive folders one at a time onto the desktop folder. In the image below, My Documents is being dragged and dropped onto the folder called My Princeton files.

6. The files will automatically copy from your H: drive to your computer. Depending on the slowness of your Internet connection or the number of files you are copying, this may a long time. Be patient. If you are off campus and made a VPN connection to copy your files, you should disconnect that VPN connection once your files have copied.
   Important Note! The folder named "~snapshot" contains several backup copies of each of the files in your H: drive. This folder can be extremely large, and can take a very long time to copy. It is recommended that you do not copy the ~snapshot folder unless you specifically need the revision history of your documents contained there.
   
   
7. Public-html folder: If you have personal web pages, those files are now stored separately from your other H: drive intellectual property. The public_html folder you see X'ed out in red in the graphic above is not the correct one! You need to go to a different public_html folder to retrieve your pages. See kb.princeton.edu/9847 to connect to your web site files, and copy the public_html folder to your computer manually to save them.