This article describes how to upload files from, and download files to, your local comptuer's storage.

The "local computer's storage" refers to storage on the computer running the Web browser used to access the ecocloud Platform.

Uploading files

To copy a file from your local computer's storage to ecocloud's internal storage:

1. Start at the JupyterLab page.
2. If the file browser is not showing, bring it up by clicking on the “Files” tab on the left edge of the window.
3. Navigate to the folder where the files are to be uploaded to.
4. Press the “Upload Files” button in the file browser’s toolbar (it is the icon with the line and arrow pointing up). The browser’s file selector dialog box appears.
5. Select the file(s) and press the choose/ok button. The file(s) will be uploaded and appear in the file browser.

Large data files should be uploaded to the server's scratch storage. The server's scratch storage is anywhere on the server that is outside the "workspace" folder (the /home/jovyan/workspace directory). Warning: data in the scratch storage is lost when the server is terminated. The workspace folder (the /home/jovyan/workspace directory) corresponds to the ecocloud workspace storage: Notebooks and scripts can be stored there.  For more details, see the storage overview.

Downloading files

To copy a file from ecocloud's internal storage to your local computer's storage.

1. Start at the JupyterLab page.
2. If the file browser is not showing, bring it up by clicking on the “Files” tab on the left edge of the window.
3. Navigate to the folder where the files are.
4. Select a file to download.
5. Right click on the selection and choose “Download” from the context menu. The browser’s save dialog box appears.
6. Navigate to the folder where the file is to be downloaded to and press the OK button.

Note: only one file can be downloaded at a time. Although the user interface allows multiple files to be selected, only one is downloaded.