Grade 9 - Social Studies

How to Manage your Storage Quota

The default quota for students is 500 megabytes of storage on a central server. This should be sufficient for general school computer use. Sometimes, students will find that they fill it up and can no longer save their documents. Note that the Pictures, Movies, and Music folders in a student's Macintosh account also count towards this quota

To check the size of all of your folders on a Macintosh:

Open the Macintosh HD
From the icons on the left side of the window, click once on the Icon with your name
From the File menu, select Get Info (or type Open-Apple I)
Wait for it to calculate the folder size (for a very large staff account, this could take many minutes) Don't forget to look at the units.
Follow this link for more instructions with screen shots.

To check the size of all of your folders on a Dell:

Open My Computer
Double-click on the link to last_first on 'sofs02.asdk12.org\Home\SOStaff' (Z: share)
Right-click on Documents and select Properties
Wait for it to calculate the folder size
Do the same for Desktop. The sum of these two is how much storage you are using.
Follow this link for more instructions with screen shots (and a shortcut for staff)

As a reminder, a summary of units is shown below.

Unit
bit	1 piece of data
byte	1 character	1 keystroke
kilobyte	1024 bytes	small files (e-mail messages) are measured in K
megabyte	1024 K	big files (pictures), old RAM, Student Storage, old flash drives are measured in Megs
gigabyte	1024 Meg	a bit larger than a CD (RAM & flash drives are 1 gig or larger))
terabyte	1024 Gig	School-wide storage for everyone
petabyte	1024 terabytes	NASA, etc.

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