Storing personal and work files

[LibbyG]

For the OP, do you have administrator rights to your work computer or do you have to ask for software to be installed? If you can't install Dropbox, I would do an offline backup to a personal hard drive (or two) periodically. If it's just an emergency backup in addition to OneDrive, it doesn't need to be perfectly up to date. Even though all of my stuff is in the cloud, I still back up to an offline hard drive every month or so.

I don't have admin rights. I've gradually moved all my work stuff to OneDrive. It's clunky, but whatever. I'm ready to take Dropbox off my work computer, but apparently I need an IT person with admin rights to do that too. And that's been outsourced from campus to system. So now, instead of starting a chat and a remote session and getting things taken care of in the 20 minute window I have, I start a ticket and then get a call back when I'm out of the office. And then I call back, and the person assigned to the ticket is busy or the person doesn't actually have admin privileges and needs to hunt up someone who does. And five or six volleys later, it actually works out.

I'll pick up a flash drive. Efficient, passive syncing was nice while it lasted. So was timely IT service.

[FishProf]

We are a Google School, so my work stuff in synced there. I use Dropbox on my home computer for personal stuff.  We are a public school and I don't trust FOIA would regard any of my personal stuff as "Not Work" so I keep it separate. 

The exception is that i do check my home email on my work computer b/c Thunderbird pulls both accounts.  I do wonder if that is a bad idea...

[tuxthepenguin]

We are a Google School, so my work stuff in synced there. I use Dropbox on my home computer for personal stuff.  We are a public school and I don't trust FOIA would regard any of my personal stuff as "Not Work" so I keep it separate. 

I always bring my personal laptop with me. I don't want to be accused of doing the wrong thing with work equipment. I pull out the laptop if there's any doubt about it being too much on the side of personal - something like my mortgage.

[Biologist_]

We are a Google School, so my work stuff in synced there. I use Dropbox on my home computer for personal stuff.  We are a public school and I don't trust FOIA would regard any of my personal stuff as "Not Work" so I keep it separate. 

Dropbox has "selective sync," so I suppose it would be pretty easy to set it so that work files are synced to the home computer but personal files are only on the hard drive of the personal computer and in the cloud. My files are organized so that it is very clear which high level folder contains all of the work files and which one has all of the personal files. I haven't used the selective sync function, but it's something I might think about.