E-mailing your data to yourself

Very popular in the clusters, but tricky to use correctly.  Students e-mail a paper to themselves to store it temporarily online until they can get back to writing it later.  This works fine as temporary backup, but it’s easy to make a mistake that could lose your paper. 

Some tips: 

If you e-mail a paper to yourself, make sure it went through and is safely in your e-mail before you go.  When you resume writing, make sure to save the paper to the desktop first.  If you open the paper in e-mail and start writing without saving it to the desktop first, none of your changes will be saved!

If you have any questions, call the UNet Help Desk at 781-529-UNET.  We're always happy to help!

This page was last modified on: Oct 04, 2007