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Boiler Backpack, powered by Syncplicity Operating System: Mac OS X (10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, Intel only)
Sign Up To sign up for this service, go to http://www.purdue.edu/boilerbackpack/ to create a new account. Once you have signed up with your Purdue username and password, it will take one business day for your storage to be available.
Navigation After you have signed up and returned the next day, navigate to https://purdue.syncplicity.com/Files/Default.aspx in your browser. Here you will find the following useful information: • •
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News Feed: notifications of what has happened in your Syncplicity folder Files: All files that are in the system. You can add new files and folders here as well as download items. As a general rule of thumb, I like to create new folders from this page and then they will sync to all your devices automatically. Shared Links: You can share files with Purdue users and non-Purdue users and collaborate on projects. This tab will show you all links that have been sent and received Install: to install the client on your machine, go to this tab Account: Here you can change your name, email, and password. You can also erase your devices if you ever lose your phone or tablet
Menu Icon After the app is installed on your mac machine, it will look like this when running:
