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Quick Start Guide: kDrive
Thank you for choosing kDrive, an independent and privacy-respecting solution for collaborating, sharing, and accessing your data from all your devices. Your data is encrypted, permanently backed up, and exclusively hosted in Switzerland.
Collaborative Storage on a 100% Swiss Made Cloud
- Discover kDrive in video (the interface has evolved since then)
Getting Started
- Synchronize kDrive between different devices
- Manage kDrive Lite Sync option (macOS)
- Manage kDrive Lite Sync option (Windows)
- Install kDrive on Linux
- kDrive folders (personal, common, shared)
- Choose kDrive folders to synchronize
- Edit a file on kDrive (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- kDrive subscription via Apple iOS
- Manage kDrive storage space
- Search for data on kDrive
Sharing Your Data
- Manage kDrive drop boxes
- Customize kDrive shares and drop boxes
- Share data from kDrive (Web interface)
- Share data by email from kDrive (Web interface)
Filling Your kDrive
- Import external data to kDrive
- Import data to kDrive (iOS)
- Import data to kDrive without kDrive app
- Import data to kDrive via WebDAV
- Import photos to kDrive (iOS / Android)
- Transfer data from an external Cloud to kDrive
- Connect to kDrive via WebDAV
- Access kDrive files locally and online
- Scan documents with kDrive (iOS / Android)
With Others
- Manage kDrive data of a removed user
- Manage kDrive user rights
- Manage kDrive users
- Manage multiple kDrive (iOS / Android)
- Manage multiple kDrive (macOS / Windows)
Advanced Usage with kDrive
- Manage kDrive categories to classify data
- Synchronize Joplin notes via WebDAV with kDrive
- Sync Qnap with kDrive
- Sync Synology with kDrive
- Record a kMeet meeting on kDrive
- Export email attachments from Mail
- Export an email to kDrive
- Add an attachment to an event in Calendar
For Power Users
Troubleshooting
- Resolve a kDrive blockage (antivirus, firewalls, etc.)
- Resolve a kDrive sync conflict
- Resolve a kDrive synchronization issue
- Resolve a kDrive issue on smartphone (don't kill my app)
- Resolve a Lite Sync plugin error on macOS
- Clear browser cache
- kDrive application version (macOS / Windows / Linux)
- Restore a kDrive file to its previous version
- Restore a deleted kDrive file
- Force kDrive to synchronize hidden and excluded files
- Allow access to your products / Complete a support request
- Display kDrive debug info
Learn More About kDrive
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- Contact Infomaniak support
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