Each Maseeh College Windows account is allotted file-storage space.

This space is called your "disk quota," and it resides on your N:\ drive. In this space is your "My Documents" folder, and your "Desktop" folder (shortcuts). In addition, there is a separate "Windows Profile" space. In this space your IE & Firefox bookmarks, favorites and cookies, e-mail settings, printers, screen Colors, desktop picture, and all application settings (eg. Office settings) are stored. The default quotas for each are:

Disk Quota:   1.0 GB

Profile Quota:   150 MB

Checking Your Quota Usage

You can check how much space you are using at https://intranet.cecs.pdx.edu (login required), you can also request a details usage report by asking one of the CAT front desk persons.

Exceeding Your Quota
If you exceed either your disk quota or your profile quota, you will be sent an e-mail to your MCECS account. The e-mail will let you know if you have used up your disk quota, or your profile quota. In the case below, the disk quota was approaching the limit.

If you would like a more detailed report of what is making you go over your allotted quota, please e-mail us at support@cat.pdx.edu and ask for a disk usage report.

What to Do When You Are Over Disk Quota

If you find that you are over your disk quota, there are some things that you can do:

• Remove any old documents that you no longer need, or archive them on CD. See CD/DVD Burning

• Store your extra files on the U:\ drive, an additonal 1 GB space on the linux/unix servers. See Understanding the U Drive

• Compress files that you may need, but rarely use. See zip files in Windows XP

• If you still find this to be inadequate storage space, you can request that your storage space be increased. This request, however, will need to come from a faculty member. If you are a student in need of additional space, please contact a faculty member to sponsor you, and have the faculty member email support@cat.pdx.edu with username, how much and when it should expire.

What to Do When You Are Over Profile Quota

Things to do when you are over Profile Quota:

• Ask for a disk usage report.

• Check for U3 software:

• If you see a line in your usage report that looks like: "\\KHENSU\PROFILE02\USERNAME\APPLICATION DATA\U3," remove the U3 software. Most people do not use its features. (See below)

• Try deleting your cookies. (Note that this will require that you re-authenticate any passwords you may have had saved in your web browser)

• If your Mozilla files are larger than 10-20MB, this likely means that your e-mail on Thunderbird is being stored locally on the machine, rather than staying on our mail servers. If you would like the mail to stay on the servers, so that you can still access mail from webmail, use IMAP. If you have further questions regarding this, e-mail support@cat.pdx.edu or stop by the front desk (FAB 60-06).

• If you are running very large applications, and need additional space in your profile, you will need to email a request to support. This request will need to come from a faculty member. If you are a student, please contact your professor to sponsor you.

A common culprit for making a user go over their profile quota is the U3 software. The U3 thumbdrives automatically install additional software when they are plugged into a computer.

• To remove the U3 software: http://www.u3.com/uninstall

• To prevent the U3 software from running: PRESS and HOLD the SHIFT key as you insert the USB device.

• U3 software will no longer run on CAT supported systems, but there will still be leftovers from before.

For more information about Windows Profiles, visit the Profiles page.