Author: Emma
Subject: Accessing files from past classes on Zoo
Date: Friday, 08 May 2020, 16:24:16

There seems to be some worry about accessing your Cs223 files after this semester, so I wanted to clarify - these files will be archived at some point before next semester, but you will still be able to access them on the Zoo (until you lose netID access one year after you graduate)! 

This only applies to your own personal files in your cs223 directory - you may still lose access to Prof. Eisenstat's files, so if you want to access any of them later (ie. if you are perfecting your solution and want some public test case files), you would need to make copies in your own directory.

After the files are archived, they will show up in a compressed tar.gz form. For example, the archive for my Cs201 files is called AY16-17-cs201-20170706.tar.gz. To unzip this file into a folder called cs201-archive where I can access the contents normally, I ran the following commands:

elp34@~$ mkdir cs201-archive
elp34@~$ tar -xf AY16-17-cs201-20170706.tar.gz -C cs201-archive

(Replace with your own tar.gz archive for cs223 and your own destination folder name.)

The new folder cs201-archive will now contain the unzipped contents of my old cs201 class folder. It's in an annoying nested format, but I can move all the relevant contents into cs201-archive and remove the rest of the nested folders like so:

elp34@~$ mv cs201-archive/home/classes/cs201/class/lastname.firstname.netid/* cs201-archive/
elp34@~$ rm -r cs201-archive/home/

(Replace cs201 with cs223 and put in your own last name and first name and net ID & destination folder before running the commands.)