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Managing Files

Contents

1. The file manager
   
2. Default files
   
3. Allowed file types
   
4. Storage limits
   

The file manager

The scholars.forum file manager is at files.scholars.forum and can be accessed by clicking the Login button in the scholars.forum site header.

Log in using the username and password emailed to you when you joined. If you need to reset your password, email support@scholars.forum from your institutional email address.

Using the file manager, you can create, edit, and delete pages and folders, and upload or delete images or PDF documents.

Editing, deleting, and uploading files

After you’ve logged in, you can browse and make changes to your files.

Browse

Click files to edit or view their contents. Click folders to navigate to them. The up toolbar button will bring you back to the folder you just left. The home toolbar button will bring you to your primary folder.

Upload

Upload new files by dragging them onto the file manager page or by clicking the upload button in the toolbar.

Download

Download an existing file to your computer by clicking the download button in the actions column.

Edit

You can edit Markdown files directly in the file manager. To edit a Markdown file, simply click its name. Alternatively, choose the edit button from the actions column.

Rename

Rename an existing file by choosing the rename button from the actions column.

Move

Move files or folders by clicking the move button from the actions column, then selecting a new folder to move the item to.

Delete

Delete files or folders by clicking the delete button in the actions column.

Create

You can create a new file or folder by clicking the corresponding button in the toolbar.

Default files

When your scholars.forum account is created, your file folder will contain some default pages to help you get started. You can modify or delete these files.

• index.md is your homepage¹
  
• photo.jpg is a placeholder image
  
• research.md is a second page, in the style of a publications page
  

To get started, edit the placeholder text in index.md and research.md, and upload a photo of yourself with the filename photo.jpg.

The default pages also link to a file named cv.pdf. If you upload your cv with that title, those links will point to it.

Allowed file types

scholars.forum is designed for simple web profiles. As a result, only a few basic file types can be stored in your file folder.

Images

.jpg/.jpeg, .gif, .png

Documents

.md, .pdf

More complex files can be stored elsewhere (e.g. Dropbox) and linked to directly from your pages.

Storage limits

Accounts are “soft” limited to 50MB of total storage. If you need more space, email support@scholars.forum or consider hosting your files on another platform and linking to them from your scholars.profile pages.

You can see the total storage space used in a folder (not including sub-folders) at the bottom of the file manager.