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Can you give us a few more details, Ryan?  I'm thinking that users aren't really logging into the OS with their campus credentials, in the sense of every student user having a separate Mac OS user account on the local machine.  I'm guessing that their login gets them through a security layer, which then puts them into some sort of standard, generic student user account, possibly a shared student workspace.  I'm also unsure about what you mean by "user folder".  I'm again guessing that you don't mean the user folder that would be found as a student-named subfolder in Macintosh HD/Users/.  Is the user folder your referring to on the Desktop, in the Documents folder, or is it even stored on the local workstation?  Can other student users see each others folders?  

What is the size of a busy student's data?  How are you recommending that they back up their data- flash drive, external hard drive, campus server, or something else?  There is probably a good reason why you don't simply suggest that students put everything in one folder, and back up that folder to their flash drive.  But without knowing more, I would tend toward either letting them manage their flash drive, which they usually know how to do, or creating a small script that would prompt them for the source folder name and the backup destination.  

Derek








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