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===== New SCS Accounts =====

** You need a new SCS account! CCS MyCarletonOne accounts are changing that means SCS account names are changing too!**


==== Who is affected? ====

All SCS students that have accounts prior to June 1, 2012. 

<note>An easy way to tell that you have an old account is if your account name is 8 characters long or less. The format was first character of your first name and the last 7 characters or less of your last name.</note>

==== What do I need to do? ====

  - Transition or create your MyCarletonOne account
  - Create a new SCS account: [[accounts_and_labs:account_creation|Account Creation]]

After following those steps you will have two SCS accounts. 


<note>After creating the new account your SCS account name should be the same as your MyCarletonOne account name.</note>

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==== What happens to my old account? ====

SCS will keep both accounts for you. At one point the old 8-character named account will be de-activated that means you will need to transition your data from your old SCS account to your new SCS account.

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==== Transitioning Accounts ====

If you wish to save any data located on your old account you will need to move this data to the new account. 

At SCS we offer a number of accounts and they can be transitioned as follows:

=== Windows ===

  - Log into your old SCS account
  - Copy files to your USB drive and logout
  - Log into your new SCS account 
  - Copy files from your USB to the new account
 
<note>After you have copied your data to your new account make sure that all your files are there and are accessible</note>


=== Linux ===

You can copy files from account A to an account B as follows:

  - ssh access.scs.carleton.ca -l accountA
  - scp my_file accountB@access:my_destination

You can handle copying many files as follows:

  * use the tar command to archive a directory and then copy the archive over
  * or, on a lambda machine you can run gftp and copy files
  * or, on a windows machine you can use winscp to backup your files from 'old_account' and then restore them to 'new_account'

=== Email ===

If you have an SCS email account we recommend the following:

  - log into your old_account and save your inbox to a folder
  - setup a .forward from your old_account to your new_account
  - copy your mail folder to your new_account

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