So, you know you have that file somewhere, but where is it? There's some tips I can share that can help....

I talked about searching your email in a prior post, but you can do similar things with the files on your hard drive, your meetings in MeetingMaker, and even large documents. It's our little friend, Ctrl-F. (I like to think of it as F for friend, rather than find!)

Do your backup. I don't care how.

It's a new academic year and the kids are back. I always love this time of year because I don't work directly with the kids, so my work load is roughly the same, but everyone seems so much more urgent and energetic around me and it rubs off... It's a good time to make a "new academic year's resolution", and here is mine.

We have a shared folder our department uses to keep track of stuff, but it's grown by leaps and bounds and there are a ton of things in there. I've had cause to look for a couple of things recently and found I couldn't tell where things were, then once I found them, I wasn't sure if what I had found was accurate documentation. What should we do?

So I promised to explain the holy grail of a clean backup, especially in the context of the last post regarding massively changing the location of all of your documents. Stick with me on this one, since it's conceptual, but hopefully will help you understand the intricate gears of our backup plan for users.