UCFileSpace: 1 GB of Storage, and More!

UCit provides UC students, faculty, and staff with an online file storage service called UCFileSpace. Your account is automatically created for you, and comes with 1 gigabyte (GB) of storage space. You can use your UC user ID to access your own personal online storage space – your UCFileSpace.  
 
You can access your UCFileSpace from anywhere on the UC campus network. Possible access points include:

• Your dorm room or office
• Almost any computer lab
• Using your laptop, from any campus network port or wireless network area
• For faculty, using the instructor workstation in any electronic classroom

If you connect to the campus network from off campus using UC’s VPN service, or using secure client software (SSH/SFTP), you can access your UCFileSpace from anywhere in the world.
 
Use your UCFileSpace just like you would use a floppy disk, recordable CD, or keychain drive. Copy your computer files for convenient access from multiple locations, or use it as a place to keep a backup copy of a paper that you’re working on. (Note:  Always keep a back-up copy of any files that are important to you. For example, copy the documents on your computer to your UCFileSpace or vice versa, and synchronize them from time to time. We do system backups of UCFileSpace to allow us to restore the entire system in the event of a hardware problem, but we cannot restore individual user files.)

Getting your web pages online is easy. First, create a page in your favorite web page editor (or use Microsoft Word and select “Save as Web Page…” from the File menu). Then, just open your UCFileSpace and drop the new web document into your Sites folder. Instantly, the document will be available online at http://homepages.uc.edu/~username/document (where ‘username’ is your UC user ID, and ‘document’ is the name of your web document file).
 
The first web page that you’ll want to work on is your default, or main, page. This is the page that appears when you leave off the /document part of the web page address (http://homepages.uc.edu/~username). On UCFileSpace, this document is called index.html.  Your UCFileSpace account includes a template index.html file in the Sites folder that you can replace or modify.
 
For complete information about how to access and use your UCFileSpace, please visit the UCFileSpace web site . There you will find instructions for basic file access for both Macintosh and Windows computers, information about all of the services that UCFileSpace provides, and access to online tools to help you manage your account.  If you have questions about UCFileSpace, please send e-mail to UCFShelp@UC.Edu.

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