Backing up your computer is essential. Hard drives fail and sometimes data cannot be recovered. If your computer is stolen, you also have a backup of all of your documents. Backing up is easy at St. Edward's. The best place to store a backup copy of all of your important documents and email is to save a copy on your personal EdShare account. The EdShare server is also backed up nightly so you will always be able to recover documents stored there. You may also backup to CD's or USB drives.

How to Back Up Documents in Mac OS X

1. Open the Hard drive icon from the desktop screen and click the Users folder.
2. From the Users folder, click on the folder with your Username.
3. From your Username folder, click on Documents.
4. To backup files in Documents, open Documents and then go to the Edit menu and click on Select All. If you only want to backup selected files or folders from Documents, select the documents and/or folders by holding the Apple/Command key and clicking on the documents and/or folders.
5. Once your documents are selected click on the Edit menu at the top of the screen and select Copy.
   * From the Documents folder, you may also click and drag the folders or documents you want to back up to your destination folder. If you have individual documents saved on your desktop screen, then you should be able to click and drag them to your destination folder, as well.
6. Open the EdShare drive (USB or CD) to which you are backing up your documents. Double click on the drive from your desktop. Your EdShare personal folder should be listed as 'username' on once you have logged into EdShare. If you are backing up to CD or USB drive, select that drive and double click on it.
7. Once the drive is open, click on the Edit menu at the top of the screen and select Paste. This will copy all of the documents selected in Step 5 to the drive (EdShare or CD/USB).
   

Another alternative for individual document saving is to save them to the destination you wish to back them up in from the application you created them in. This is always good to do with documents that are of high importance.

To do this click on File > Save As > select the destination in the Save In field, and click the Save button