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Getting Started Guide: kDrive
Thank you for choosing kDrive, the independent and privacy-respecting solution for collaborating, sharing, and accessing your data from all your devices. Your data is encrypted, continuously backed up, and exclusively hosted in Switzerland.
Collaborative storage on a 100% Swiss Made cloud
- Discover kDrive in video (the interface has evolved since)
Getting Started
- Synchronize kDrive across different devices
- Manage the kDrive Lite Sync option (macOS)
- Manage the kDrive Lite Sync option (Windows)
- Install kDrive on Linux
- kDrive folders (personal, shared, common)
- Choose the kDrive folders to synchronize
- Edit an Office-type file on kDrive (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- kDrive subscription via Apple iOS
- Manage kDrive storage space
- Search for data on kDrive
Share your data
- Manage kDrive drop boxes
- Customize shares and kDrive repositories
- Share data from kDrive (Web interface)
- Share data by email from kDrive (Web interface)
Fill your kDrive
- Import external data to kDrive
- Import data to kDrive (iOS) or just the photos from the iPhone automatically
- Import photos to kDrive (Android)
- Import data to kDrive without the kDrive app
- Import data to kDrive via WebDAV
- Connect to kDrive via WebDAV
- Access kDrive files locally and online
- Scan documents with kDrive (iOS / Android)
With multiple people
- Manage a kDrive user's rights
- Manage folder and subfolder access permissions
- Manage kDrive users
- Manage multiple kDrive (iOS / Android)
- Manage multiple kDrive (macOS / Windows)
- Copy certain data between kDrive you have access to
Go further with kDrive
- Modify an existing kDrive offer
- Manage kDrive categories to classify data
- Sync Joplin notes via WebDAV with kDrive
- Sync Qnap with kDrive
- Sync Synology with kDrive
- Save a kMeet meeting on kDrive
- Export email attachments from Mail
- Export an email to kDrive
- Add an attachment to an event in Calendar
For advanced users
In case of a problem
- Resolve a kDrive blockage (antivirus, firewall, etc.)
- Resolve a kDrive sync conflict
- Resolve a kDrive synchronization issue
- Resolve a kDrive issue on Android device (don't kill my app)
- Resolve a Lite Sync plugin error on macOS
- Clear the browser cache
- Clear the kDrive mobile app cache
- kDrive application version (macOS / Windows / Linux)
- Restore a kDrive file to a previous version
- Restore a deleted kDrive file
- Force kDrive to sync hidden and excluded files
- Authorize access to your products / Complete a support request
- Display kDrive debugging information
Learn more about kDrive
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