Saving Your Work
Self Help Guide
File Management and Storage: saving your work
You should always save and backup your work and run a virus check regularly to ensure your work does not become corrupt or lost. You should also store your saved work in at least two places. See also UPR SA12 Section 8.2.5.
Saving your work
Save your work at regular intervals so that if there are any problems with the computer, network, disk or USB device you are using, you do not lose your work in its entirety.
Use the Save or Save as option on the File menu that is available on most applications to save or copy your work.
You can save your work either to your personal storage U:\ drive on the computers in the Learning
Resources Centres (LRCs) or to a pen or flash drive on drive E:\ or F:\. Please note that outside the LRCs, for Apple Mac users the U:\ drive (StudentStore) is only available via StudyNet
Check that the files have been saved and copied correctly before logging out.
Emailed yourself a file?
If you email yourself a file, before working on it you MUST save it to a known location before opening it. DON’T work on it from within your browser or you may not be able to find it when you think you have saved it.
Virus protection
CDs and other storage devices are checked automatically when they are inserted into any
computer in any of the University’s LRCs and disinfected wherever possible.
While you are at UH you can download free antivirus software for PCs from StudyNet:
Click on Help & Support on the top menu bar of StudyNet.
Click on Computers, laptops, software and email (under Get information and help about).
Click on Dealing with viruses and worms and follow the instructions (under Install Antivirus software). USB storage devices
On a PC, Windows will assign the next available drive letter, usually E:\ or F:\.
To remove USB devices from PCs, click on the small green arrow found in the task bar at the lower right hand side of your screen and then confirm that
File Management and Storage: saving your work
You should always save and backup your work and run a virus check regularly to ensure your work does not become corrupt or lost. You should also store your saved work in at least two places. See also UPR SA12 Section 8.2.5.
Saving your work
Save your work at regular intervals so that if there are any problems with the computer, network, disk or USB device you are using, you do not lose your work in its entirety.
Use the Save or Save as option on the File menu that is available on most applications to save or copy your work.
You can save your work either to your personal storage U:\ drive on the computers in the Learning
Resources Centres (LRCs) or to a pen or flash drive on drive E:\ or F:\. Please note that outside the LRCs, for Apple Mac users the U:\ drive (StudentStore) is only available via StudyNet
Check that the files have been saved and copied correctly before logging out.
Emailed yourself a file?
If you email yourself a file, before working on it you MUST save it to a known location before opening it. DON’T work on it from within your browser or you may not be able to find it when you think you have saved it.
Virus protection
CDs and other storage devices are checked automatically when they are inserted into any
computer in any of the University’s LRCs and disinfected wherever possible.
While you are at UH you can download free antivirus software for PCs from StudyNet:
Click on Help & Support on the top menu bar of StudyNet.
Click on Computers, laptops, software and email (under Get information and help about).
Click on Dealing with viruses and worms and follow the instructions (under Install Antivirus software). USB storage devices
On a PC, Windows will assign the next available drive letter, usually E:\ or F:\.
To remove USB devices from PCs, click on the small green arrow found in the task bar at the lower right hand side of your screen and then confirm that