HowTo Transfer Files: Difference between revisions

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== If you're in YSTV ==
== Inside YSTV ==
If you have less than a few gigabytes to move, find a flash drive or external hard drive and copy it off an edit PC, it'll be quickest.
If you have less than a few gigabytes to move, find a flash drive or external hard drive and copy it off an edit PC, it'll be quickest.


Otherwise, on the desk next to the Mac, there should be a spare network cable (by the window, currently grey), plug this in and turn off your wireless - it should be a faster than eduroam.
Otherwise, connect to the YSTV WiFi network, or plug in to a spare network port


=== On Windows ===
=== On Windows ===
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* Pick a folder, and copy away!
* Pick a folder, and copy away!


== If you're not in YSTV ==
== Outside YSTV ==
If you only want to download files, read [[HowTo Add a file to user space on YSTV website]]
If you only want to download files, read [[HowTo Add a file to user space on YSTV website]]


''If you're off campus, you'll need to tunnel in to the VPN first for any of this to work: go to [https://webvpn.york.ac.uk https://webvpn.york.ac.uk]''
''If you're off campus, you'll need to tunnel in to the VPN first for any of this to work: go to [https://webvpn.york.ac.uk https://webvpn.york.ac.uk]''


# Using your favourite SFTP client ([http://winscp.net/eng/download.php WinSCP] is recommended for Windows, or [http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck] for Mac, Linux users you can probably figure it out), connect to <code>ystv.york.ac.uk</code> with your server username (the <code>firstname.lastname</code> one) and password.
# Using your favourite SFTP client ([http://winscp.net/eng/download.php WinSCP] is recommended for Windows, or [http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck] for Mac, Linux users you can probably figure it out), connect to <code>filestore.ystv.york.ac.uk</code> with your server username (the <code>firstname.lastname</code> one) and password.
# Browse to the location of the file you want (probably somewhere in <code>/data</code> or <code>/mnt</code>). For uploading shows go to <code>/mnt/UserData</code> and upload it there to put on the website.
# Browse to <code/tank</code> and from there you will see the usual selection of folders.


== If these all fail/you can't see the file ==
== If these all fail/you can't see the file ==
Tweet/email/call/smoke signal a techie or computing type and they'll help you (and should chastise me for writing shoddy instructions).
Tweet/email/call/smoke signal a techie or computing type and they'll help you.


[[Category:Tutorials]]
[[Category:Tutorials]]