Student E-mail and Network Accounts: Every registered student automatically has an e-mail and network account.  Both are accessible when logging in using your MyMail login and password.  Each student's network account has 100MB of private storage on the network that may be accessed from any campus computer.  Only you have access to your private storage. 

LOGGING INTO LABS, CLASSROOMS, AND LIBRARY COMPUTERS: All public or departmental labs and classrooms, as well as the Library computers require students to login using their MyMail login and password.

HAVING TROUBLE LOGGING INTO A NETWORK COMPUTER?
•  If you changed your password from the original default password in STINF, and do not remember the password, you can go to http://reset.bloomu.edu to reset it back to the default. 
•  If you don't recall the default password, log into STINF using your student ID and PIN number.  You can find your default password under Biographical Information.
•  If you don't know your PIN number to log into STINF, please visit the Registrar's office.

NETWORK DRIVES: Once students are logged into a campus computer, the following drives will appear under the "My Computer" icon:

LOGGING OFF LAB, CLASSROOM AND LIBRARY COMPUTERS: Since network storage is connected to a particular computer when you log in, always remember to LOG OFF campus computers when you are finished with them.  If you don't, the next person using the computer will be able to access, change or delete your personal files.

Warning: No file storage is absolutely secure. You are always responsible for backing up your files and maintaining your personal storage space.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR PERSONAL NETWORK DRIVE (P DRIVE):
•  Each person who logs onto the network has their own personal network space to save documents. This is the P drive.
•  The P drive has an allotted 100 MB of space for your use.

Benefits of saving documents on the P drive :
•  No one else will be able to access your files.
•  Your files will be automatically backed up nightly.
•  Your files will be able to be easily restored if accidentally overwritten or deleted.

To save a document on your P drive : Create your document and then click on File - Save as, follow these instructions:

* Click the drop down button next to Save in.
•  Click on the P drive.
•  If you have folders created under the P drive, click on the folder you would like your document to go into.
•  Enter a file name (bottom of window).
•  Click Save button (bottom right of window).

Snapshots (shadow copies) of your network files: The server provides a feature called shadow copies (for PCs running Windows XP or Windows 2000; earlier versions not supported) .

•  Snapshots are created of documents saved on network at 6 am & noon daily.
•  The server will create up to 64 snapshot copies. This gives you lots of opportunity to pull from older versions!
•  Once 64 snapshots have been created, the oldest files will be purged and overwritten with newer copies.

To find shadow copies of your file(s), follow these steps:
•  Right mouse click on the Start button.
•  Click on Explore.
•  Click on the network drive you have your document stored on.
•  Find the folder where your document is/was; right click on it.
•  If your document was not saved in a folder, right click on the drive name.
•  Click on Properties and choose the tab for "Previous Versions"

You will see a screen similar to this when you right mouse click on a folder:

When the window appears, click on the Previous Versions Tab.

You will see documents or folders containing documents. This depends on how you organize your documents.

Highlight the document, folder, or the P drive itself and choose View or Copy.   Be cautious using "Restore" - you could accidentally restore an entire folder and overwrite some documents you didn't intend to overwrite.

•  If a document had been accidentally deleted, right click on the folder (or drive) it was stored in before deletion to find it.
•  Look at the previous versions and you should easily be able to find your deleted document.

Note: The shadow copy client is only available on documents saved to a network drive. If you save something to your C drive, you will not see a tab for previous versions!