Temp Drive

The temp drive is useful if you do not have enough space on your home drive to save the files you are working on. For example, if you need to save multiple, large files during a single session, you can save them for that session while you work.

Warning

The Open Access Labs (OAL) temp drive share is a temporary storage area. It should NOT be used for storage of critical data or as a backup storage.

Each file in the temp drive share is checked and removed after seven days of inactivity. Any programs that you create yourself, document files of any type that you edit frequently, and other files that you have created and modify with some frequency within the seven day guideline limit should be safe from removal. However, there is NO GUARANTEE.

According to the guidelines, most executables (and some other files) will be removed within a twenty-four hour period of being 'installed' onto the temp drive share.

Space consumption is monitored on a 'per user' basis. In other words, if you make thirty directories with one megabyte of data in each one, your user ID is taking up a total of 30 megabytes of space. Anything over the 100MB space limit will be considered an infringement of these practices.

• The temp drive share (M:) is for academic use only.
• Files will be removed after seven days.
• There is NO backup for this drive.
• Create subfolders instead of storing files in the root (main folder) of the drive share.  Files in the root will be removed.
• Do not install or launch programs on the temp drive share (M:).
• Do not abuse your privileges to this resource or your access may be denied.