Shared folders — durable storage you share

A transfer disappears when it expires. A folder stays. Folders are

the durable storage in WeGotFiles: you upload once, give the right

people access, and the files are there until you delete them

yourself.

Every signed-in account can create folders, free ones included.

What separates the plans is how much space you get, not the

feature itself. See the article on folder storage for the numbers.

Create and fill a folder

Go to Share folders, type a name and press Create folder. You

can nest subfolders several levels deep — one folder per project,

per client or per occasion.

Upload with Upload files, or drag files straight into the

list. They go through the same virus scan as ordinary transfers

before becoming available.

The same file can sit in several folders without taking up space

twice — it is linked in. In return, deleting applies everywhere:

delete the file and it disappears from every folder it was in.

Three ways to share

Named people. Enter the email address under **Share → Grant

access**. The folder shows up under "Shared with me" for them the

next time they sign in.

Contact groups. Share with a group and access follows

membership. Add someone to the group later and they get access

without you touching the folder.

Share link. A web address that grants read access without

signing in — handy for recipients who shouldn't need an account.

If someone has access both through a group and directly, the

direct grant is the one that applies to them.

Read only or can edit

Every grant is one of two levels:

• Read only — view and download the contents.

• Can edit — also upload, rename and delete.

Share links always grant read access only. Changing anything

requires an account with a named grant, so the activity log can

show who did what.

About share links

The link is shown only once, right after you create it. Copy

it immediately — we can't show it again, only create a new one.

You can password-protect the link, and revoke it at any time. If

you create a new link, the old one stops working immediately and

everyone who received it loses access.

Under Who can open the link you choose what the link demands of

whoever holds it:

• Anyone with the link — as before, no account needed.

• Must be signed in — whoever opens it has to sign in with a

  WeGotFiles account. An account is free.

• Must be signed in with two-factor — the account also needs two-factor. You need two-factor yourself to choose this. Two-factor needs Pro, on their side too.

The requirement covers the whole folder and its subfolders, and comes

on top of the password if you use both. It applies to the link only:

people you gave access by name open the folder as themselves and

notice nothing.

Announcing new files

Recipients don't get an email every time you upload something.

Instead the changes accumulate, and you press Send update

when you're done. That sends one email to your subscribers

instead of one per file.

To stop notifications from a folder someone shared with you, use

Mute notifications for this folder.

The activity log

Every folder keeps a log of who uploaded, deleted, renamed or was

granted access, and when. The log is visible to the folder's

owner.