The available storage capacity in next.Hessenbox is 100 GB for TU Darmstadt employees and 30 GB for TU Darmstadt students. We recommend reviewing in advance which data should be migrated and archiving any data that is no longer needed elsewhere.
Important note
Only migrate folders that you are the owner of. Folders that have been shared with you by other people must be migrated and shared again by them. If you migrate such folders yourself, you will lose the connection to the original owner and to the other users.
You can recognise folders shared by other people by the name of the person sharing the folder in brackets next to the folder name. Alternatively, you can click on ‘To me’ in the sidebar.
To transfer your data to the new system, follow these steps:
Step 1: Prepare data migration
Clean up the data in your previous Hessenbox (https://hessenbox.tu-darmstadt.de). Delete any data you no longer need, reducing the amount to be migrated to only the files you will require in the future.
You can archive files that are no longer needed by downloading them and storing them on a separate storage medium. Then, upload the data you still need to next.Hessenbox.
Step 2: Downloading the data from the Hessenbox DA
If you have not already done so, log in to the previous Hessenbox at https://hessenbox.tu-darmstadt.de with your TU-ID.
Click on ‘My’ in the bar on the left-hand side to display only the folders of which you are the owner.
To download individual folders, tick the box in front of the desired folder.
Click on ‘Download’ in the top right corner.
The folder will then be saved as a .zip file in your download directory.
Open the download area, right-click on the .zip file, select ‘Extract all’ and follow the instructions.
Step 3: Upload the downloaded data to next.Hessenbox
Login to the next.Hessenbox at the following address:
Select the Technical University of Darmstadt at the bottom of the homepage and log in with your TU-ID and your personal password.
You will then be automatically redirected to the next.Hessenbox homepage.
You have two options for uploading your data:
- Option: Drag and drop a file or folder onto the next.Hessenbox web interface and upload it.
- Option: Click on ‘New’ and select ‘Upload files’ or ‘Upload folders’ to upload your data to next.Hessenbox.
Step 4: Check uploaded data
Check whether the folders/files have been successfully uploaded.
In the next step, you must define the access rights. Separate instructions are available for this purpose in the next.Hessenbox authorisations instructions .
Note: To ensure that the data on the old Hessenbox DA is no longer edited, we recommend removing the existing authorisations for the invited persons there.
