Uploading and downloading files to and from your ZEDAT account

You may need to download files from your ZEDAT account that you have created with the tools provided there (for example, CQP or the TreeTagger), or upload files that you have created on your own computer in order to process them further. There are several ways of doing this, we describe the ones we find most useful.

The first way of uploading or downloading files is to access your ZEDAT account using the web interface provided by the ZEDAT itself. While this is not the quickest or most elegant way, it has the advantage that it only requires a browser and that it will feel very familiar even if you do not have any advanced experience with computers:

1. Go to https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/Home
2. On the left hand side, there is a light gray box containing links to the ZEDAT webmail interface, the portal, your file storage (Datenablage) and a shell. Click on Datenablage.
3. You will be taken to the ZEDAT's central single sign-on page. Sign in with your username and password.
4. You will be taken to your file storage. Open folders by clicking on them. Edit, delete, download or rename files by pointing your mouse or trackpad arrow at the file and choosing the desired option from the context menu that will be displayed.

Another way of uploading and downloading files is to access your ZEDAT account using an SFTP file browser that allows you to sign into our ZEDAT server using the standard Secure File Transfer Protocol.

Most operating systems these days have this functionality built into their own file browsers (for example, Nautilus on Ubuntu, the “Connect to server” function on macOS, or the Windows explorer). Using this functionality, you can login to your account and access the files on the server as though they were on your own computer.

Tutorials:

1. Windows: https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/tip4u_118.pdf
2. MacOS: https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/tip4u_121.pdf
3. Linux: https://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/tip4u_119.pdf

The built-in functions can sometimes be slow, in which case you may want to use a third-party program. There is a range of such programs available, both free and paid. Below are two suggestions based on what we like, but feel free to try out other programs!

• Cyberduck. Available for macOS and Windows in free and paid versions. Hands down the best file browser we know, allowing you not only to access SFTP servers (like the ZEDAT Linux server), but also some major file storage providers like Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
• FileZilla, Available for Linux, macOS and Windows as a free and open-source program. It is a very good and stable program. The interface is less user-friendly than what you might be used to, but the functionality is great.

To access your file storage with one of these (or similar) programs, you need to set up a connection to the server in the settings or preferences of the respective program. To do so, you need your ZEDAT username and password and the following information (which you enter into the corresponding fields in the settings of your program):

1. URL: sftp://login.zedat.fu-berlin.de/
2. Host: login.zedat.fu-berlin.de
3. Port: 22

If you are using the terminal application on Mac or Linux or Windows Powershell, you can download files easily with scp. Open your terminal, and type scp USERNAME@login.fu-berlin.de:“~/FILEPATH” . Just replace USERNAME with the same username you use when you ssh and PATH with the path you saved the file to. For example:

  scp musterperson@login.fu-berlin.de:"~/myconcordance.txt" .

The dot . refers to your current working directory. By default this is C:\Users\USERNAME on Windows and the home directory ~/ on Mac and Linux. You can replace it with any custom path. If you want to copy an entire directory, use the -r flag. You can also use wildcards like *. For example, scp -r musterperson@login.fu-berlin.de:“~/*” Data will download a copy of your entire server space into the folder Data.