[lm-announce] IMPORTANT: Data on workstations and Zeus guest accounts

[Sam Swift]

Dear All,

Due to the ever increasing number of users in light microscopy and  
the volume of orphaned or neglected data on the microscopes and  
workstations, Chris and I need to do the following -

1.  Delete ALL data on ALL the local light microscopy hard drives.
2.  Delete ALL data from and remove the LMFguest01 and 02 accounts on  
Zeus
3.  Remove data more frequently from the hard drives if it is  
clogging the system up (this happens a lot now and it needs to stop).

We will be doing this on Monday June 12th, so you all have about 5  
weeks to shift any data you need from these microscopes and  
workstations into your Zeus accounts and check that there is no data  
you need on the LMFguest accounts either on the microscopes or on Zeus.

In order to move your data from a guest account, simply log in with  
your own user name, open the guest folder up and drag the data over  
to your own folder.  You can view the guest account under your own  
log in.

I will be on annual leave from May 18th to June 2nd so please direct  
questions to Calum Thomson, Paul Appleton or Chris Allan in my  
absence.  I can help you before next Thursday or the week I get back.

There are far too many people with stray data on the LMFguest  
accounts for us to chase you up personally, but even if you think  
you've got nothing on there you really do want to check.  There are  
backups and data copies from the DVs, workstations, SP2 and BioRad on  
here that have since been wiped from those microscopes.  Please refer  
to my previous emails for a list of data that was left on the  
DeltaVision microscopes and workstations; funnily enough it wasn't  
all moved the last time I asked :-)

A lot of this stuff is totally ancient and this is just overdue  
housekeeping on our part, but there may be some gems in there that  
you don't want deleted.  The onus is on you guys to save it and  
you're not going to get a second chance.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Sam