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Setting Your Preferences
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As a user, you can manage your personal settings.

To access your personal settings:

1. Clicking on your username in the top, right corner of your ownCloud instance.

   The Personal Settings Menu opens.

   .. figure:: images/oc_personal_settings_dropdown.png
      :alt: screenshot of user menu at top-right of ownCloud Web GUI

   **Personal Settings Menu**

2. Choose *Personal* from the drop down menu.

   The Personal Settings Page opens in the main viewing window.

   .. figure:: images/personal_settings.png
      :alt: screenshot of user's Personal settings page

.. note:: If you are an administrator, you can also manage users and administer 
   the server by using the related links in the Personal Settings Menu. 
   However, these links do not appear to a normal user.

The options listed in the Personal Settings Page depend on the applications 
that 
are enabled by the administrator.  However, some of the default settings for 
this page include the following:

Usage and available quota
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Appearing at the top of the page, this information provides the amount of space
used and available for the user (in Megabytes).

.. figure:: images/usage_indicator.png
   :alt: screenshot of space used/available indicator

Password
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Enables you to change your password.  To change your password, you must provide
your current password along with your new password. When creating a new
password, ownCloud provides a dynamic password strength indicator for your
assistance.

.. figure:: images/password_change.png
   :alt: screenshot of password management form

.. note:: If you would like the ability to recover your password through
     e-mail, specify your email address in the Email field (see below).

Full Name
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Enables you to specify your full name. This name appears at the top of the
Personal Settings Menu.

   .. figure:: images/full_name.png
      :alt: screenshot of Full Name form

Email
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Enables you to specify an email address for use by the ownCloud server and
administrator in sending you notifications. For information about setting email
notifications, see "Notifications" below.

.. figure:: images/email_address_personal_settings.png
   :alt: screenshot of email address form

Profile picture
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Enables you to specify a new avatar (profile image) that identifies you on the
ownCloud server. By default, the profile picture is the first initial of your
username. You can choose to keep the letter designation, upload a new image
from an external source, or select an image from any existing images in your
ownCloud folders.

.. figure:: images/profile_picture_personal_settings.png
   :alt: screenshot of profile picture management form

Language
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Enables you to change your Web interface language, if you want to override the
browser settings.

.. figure:: images/language_personal_settings.png
   :alt: screenshot of language dropdown selector

Notifications
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Enables you to specify what notifications you receive for activities on your
ownCloud instance. You can choose to receive messages through an email
notification or online stream notification. In addition, the Notifications
settings enable you to exclude changes that you make yourself and obtain only
changes made by others on your account. You can obtain email notifications
hourly, daily, or weekly.

.. figure:: images/notifications_personal_settings.png
   :alt: screenshot of notifications management form

Limit notifications to your favorite files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Since ownCloud 8.1 it is possible to "Limit notifications about creation and
changes to your favorite files". This means you will no longer receive
notifications for all files, but only those which are marked as favorite or are
in a folder that is marked as a favorite, using the new :ref:`favorites-label`
feature.

.. note:: This option is only available for the notification stream at the
  moment, due to the way the email notifications are generated in ownCloud 8.1.

Save New Documents Location
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If your ownCloud server admin has enabled the Documents app, you can specify a 
location (folder) to which newly created documents are saved.

.. figure:: images/documents_personal_settings.png
   :alt: screenshot of Documents form

Version
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Specifies the ownCloud software version that you are using along with links to
the ownCloud community, source code, and licensing information.
