Accessing Documents and Drives

The File Transfer Utility previously available on RAS has been replaced by two new icons available from the main screen once logged in.

 

You can use these icons to browse and access your University Documents and the Drives on your home computer (including any mapped drives on-campus). These windows also give you the ability to transfer files between home and campus.

My University Documents

Once opened you will be presented with a window like this giving you the ability to browse and access your University Documents.

My Documents

My Drives

Once opened you will be presented with a window like this giving you the ability to browse and access your Drives on-campus and at home.

My Drives

This will show the following drives:

  • Your University Documents - labelled as Documents (H:)
  • Your local drives mapped through from your own computer - in the example above the A, C, D and E drives. These will all be labelled as Disk Type (Letter: on COMPUTER), for example Local Disk (C: on JOHNS-PC)
  • If you have also directly mapped any other drives from within RAS, these will be shown as well. See Mapping Drives in RAS (FAQ 2.9) for further information.

Transferring files between home and campus

a) Transferring files from Home to Campus (H:)

Open My Drives on RAS. 

Navigate to the location where your files are saved on your own computer. For most users this would be Local Disk (C: on YOUR-COMPUTER-NAME) -> Users ->YourUsername -> My Documents
or, if your files are located on a memory stick Removable Disk (X: on YOUR-COMPUTER-NAME)

You may be prompted to give access to files on your computer (FAQ 2.3)
If so, check 'Do not ask me again for this site' and click 'Permit all access'

Locate the file on your computer that you want to transfer to campus, right-click on it and then use Send to -> Documents (H:)

Send to

b) Transferring files from Campus (H:) to Home

Open My Drives on RAS. Once loaded also open My University Documents on RAS.

Position these two windows side by side on your screen.

My Documents and My Drives - Side by Side

Within the Computer window navigate to the location where you want to copy files to on your own computer. For most users this would be Local Disk (C: on YOUR-COMPUTER-NAME) -> Users -> YourUsername -> My Documents
or, to save onto a memory stick Removable Disk (X: on YOUR-COMPUTER-NAME)

You may be prompted to give access to files on your computer (FAQ 2.3)
If so, check 'Do not ask me again for this site' and click 'Permit all access'

Within the My Documents window locate the file you want to copy. You can either drag-and-drop files between these two windows, or right-click on the file and select copy, then paste the file into the location you want to save it to.