Local data policy

In an effort to secure and maintain freely available local storage capacity on SCF microscope acquisition PCs for ongoing experiments, we have developed a local data policy as follows:

Starting February 2022, unused local data on SCF microscope data drives will be periodically migrated to network-based medium-term storage:

• Any files not accessed in the previous 90 days will be moved to the N-drive, for safekeeping an additional year (in the SCU space)
• This is done for drive cleanup purposes, it is not intended as a means for long-term user data storage
• If users need access to local data that has been moved, they can contact us at
• Local data that is migrated to the N-drive and remains unclaimed for another year will be deleted!

We kindly remind SCF users of the following:

• Local data on the acquisition computers is not backed up and not intended for longer term storage
• SCF users themselves are responsible for their data following acquisition
• We offer different solutions to move your data to longer-term storage:

           a) Strongly recommended: use the Annotation Tool (oBIT) to easily move your data to a centralized openBIS database

• easy transfer, annotation, in-browser data access & visualization           

b) Not recommended: manually move your data to an accessible network space (e.g. personal or group network drive)