Your non-network programs and personal files are stored on your Macintosh hard drive or on your floppy disks. Storage on the User Volume drive The user volume drive is designated as your personal storage area and no one else has access to this area. You are allotted 10 MB of storage on the server for this folder. Currently, the Mac cannot properly show you how much free space you have in this volume. Your user volume drive contains four main folders, plus any others that you create.
DOCS is usually for word processing files.
DATA is for spreadsheet files. It is recommended that you not make any file changes in this directory. Storage on the Shared Volume drive The shared volume drive is designated as a shared area within a department or office group. There may be several people who have access to this area. This is the place to share documentation and data needed by multiple people in a department or office group.