Backing Up Information

Backing up your information is the only way to ensure that you do not lose any of your important documents. Backing up is very simple and should be done on a regular basis.

If you wish to back up all of your documents, simply copy your documents folder to a blank CD, a thumb drive, or some other form of media. Please note this requires that all of your documents are in your documents folder. Please see File and Folder Management for more information on this. You can access your documents folder in two different places. The first is in the sidebar of a window in the Finder.

 

The second place is in your user directory.

 

If you wish to back up all of your files (movie clips, mp3s, documents, images, etc.) copy your user folder to a storage media. Please know that if you have a large files, this will require a lot of space and may require multiple CDs or DVDs.