I have had many questions on the fate of your hard earned intellectual property that resides on our Windows server. Here is the tutorial for retrieving this.
Please be aware this may be a time intensive activity. It needs to be done, and at least, until you get the “My Documents” safely on to your desktop, must be done at school. You can take it home to do housekeeping and transfer if you wish.
OK After I typed all of this out I remembered that I have a small-in-size, large in capacity USB drive that I can probably use to copy of everyones profile and work from there. SO you can read and follow directions if you are anxious or you can wait for me to get things copied and out to you. Your choice!
Start on you MacBook desktop in Finder. Under the GO menu you will see Network. Hit it.
You will see a window that allows you to select a server– select Planter and double click.
You will get a notice that the connection failed. Look to your right, click on the Connect as… button
You will get this box…
Put in your Windows Network user name and password ( this is what you use every time you log into your computer) 
Now you are on Planter. Select Profiles.
Double click on YOUR profile and it will open. Select your “My Documents” folder with one click.
With your “My Documents” Folder selected, go to the top of your screen and select Edit and “Copy ‘My Documents.’”
You can now click on the desktop, go back to Edit and select “Paste Items.”
When pasting is done, there is your documents folder (NOTE: If you have a LOT of files this process may take a l-o-n-g time)
You can even open it and check it. You can also (and should) take this opportunity to clean out stuff you no longer need–just drag it to the trash.
Now you can put your MY documents into your Macbook Documents folder.
Go back to GO and double click your HOME folder.
Double click on you “Documents” folder. (Yours probably won’t have anything in it.)
Open up your “My Documents folder from the desktop.
Select the first document in your list. Now on your keyboard hit the “command” button then teh leter “A.” All your documents are selected.
Go up to the edit menu and click on it. Select “Copy XX items” (XX being the number of documents selected)
Go to your Mac Documents file and click in that window. Go back to Edit and select “Paste items” (again paste will take from a few seconds to several minutes depending on how well you cleaned up).
Your documents from “My Documents” are now in the MacBook documents file (you can compare).
After that, close both windows and drag your “My Documents” folder off your desktop and into your trash.
Be aware that you just added anywhere from a few to many, many megabytes of data to your MacBook and so the next time you sync up (logging off the network) it may take a while to get everything where it is going. This is not a process to be rushed. Give it time.
If you also have data stored on the “Public” drive, you can grab it the same way, going to “Public” instead of “profiles” and finding your files there.
Flash drives also work to grab and transfer data and I will have some available. I would not trust the “Planter” server over the summer to hold “way too precious to lose” data. It has been acting funky for a time and I think we have learned not to trust such things. Word.
