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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
- Sync kDrive between different devices
- Manage kDrive Lite Sync option (macOS)
- Manage kDrive Lite Sync option (Windows)
- Install kDrive on Linux
- kDrive Folders (personal, shared, public)
- Choose kDrive folders to sync
- 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 via 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 user rights
- Manage kDrive users
- Manage multiple kDrive accounts (iOS / Android)
- Manage multiple kDrive accounts (macOS / Windows)
- Copy certain data between kDrive accounts you have access to
Going Further with kDrive
- Manage kDrive categories for organizing data
- Sync 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 Advanced Users
In Case of Problems
- 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 browser cache
- kDrive application version (macOS / Windows / Linux)
- Restore a kDrive file to its previous version
- Restore a deleted kDrive file
- Force kDrive to sync hidden and excluded files
- Allow access to your products / Complete a help request
- View kDrive debug information
Learn More About kDrive
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