9.1 Understanding My Files

My Files is an optional personal storage area that you can make available to your Filr users. It can include two possible data storage locations, as illustrated in Figure 9-1 and explained in the table that follows it.

Figure 9-1 My Files’ Possible Storage Locations

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If you enable personal storage for users as outlined in Figure 9-2, then Filr automatically creates a personal storage directory on its data disk.

If your LDAP users have home directory attributes associated with them in the identify store (eDirectory or Active Directory), then when their users accounts are synced, Filr creates special Net Folders that link to their home directories.

If you have enabled personal storage for users who do not have home directories as described on the previous row, then those users see only what is stored in the Filr data store in their My Files.

If you have enabled personal storage for users, and those users also have home directories associated with them in the identity store, they see what is stored in the Filr data store and a folder named Home under My Files. The Home folder provides a distinction between files and folders in the Filr data store and those in Home directories on the file server.

If you haven’t enabled personal storage, but your users have home directories, then the files and folders in their home directory display as direct entries within My Files.

NOTE:Of course, if you don’t enable personal storage, and users don’t have home directories, then their My Files is empty and not usable.