Saving Your Work

It’s very important while you’re working in the Tufts Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to save your work to your local device so that it doesn’t get lost!  Any files you haven't saved outside of the VDI will be lost upon disconnecting from the VDI.

Saving options may vary between the Omnissa Horizon web and native client, but may include:

  • Saving to your Tufts Box account
  • Saving to a local storage location that you have connected to the VDI
  • Saving content to locally-connected USB drives, etc.

Like a regular computer, you can store and access Box content through the Tufts Box website or Box Drive on the VDI.

 

Using the Tufts Box Website on the VDI

  1. On the VDI, open up a browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.).
  2. Visit the Tufts Box website and log in with your Tufts credentials.
  3. From here, you can upload, download, and work on files as needed.

 

Using Box Drive on the VDI

  1. Shortly after logging into the VDI, a Box Drive login window should appear. This may take a minute, so be patient. Within the Box Dive window, click Log In.option to log in to Box Drive
  2. A web browser will open with a Box login window. Log in with your Tufts credentials.
  3. Box Drive will launch.
  4. Once you’ve logged into Box Drive, you can access your Box contents by opening File Explorer and selecting the “Box” location.screenshot of Box Drive opened on VDI, with content visible

When using the Omnissa Horizon native client, removeable storage (USB drives, etc.) that is connected to your local device should be automatically detected and available in the VDI as a network drive (Z:, Y:, etc.).

example of a connected USB drive visible on the VDI

If your local removable storage isn’t being detected, check the settings on your VDI application. (Settings > Drive & Folder Sharing > Allow auto access to removable storage)

option to allow access to removable storage

 

You can temporarily connect storage locations on your local computer to the Tufts VDI so that content syncs between the two. To learn more, visit the page on Connecting Folders Between Your Device and VDI.