This guide explains how to provide useful details when requesting assistance and authorize Infomaniak Support to access your products online and in particular their content.

Preamble

• Only Infomaniak employees who will process your support request will be able to access it.
• You can revoke this access at any time or wait 7 days for access to close automatically.
• Different content can be accessed (read below): allow access to one does not allow access to the other - these are specific authorizations.
• It is also possible for you to share a single specific e-mail Very easily.

Allow Support to access your content

To this end:

1. Click here in order to access the management of accesses by Support to your products on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click on the toggle switch to allow access to the contents of the...
   1. ... email addresses attached to the Mail Infomaniak interface
   2. ... folders among the existing kDrive(s) in organizations of which this user is a member
   3. ... discussions among the existing kChat product(s) in the organisations of which this user is a member
      

Make screenshots...

... on Windows

Microsoft proposes a softwarepre-installed dedicated to screenshots. But to achieve them manually:

1. Display what you want/have to pass on to the screen.
2. Press the PRINTSCREEN key on your keyboard (or PRTSCR, IMPR. ECRAN, etc.) once.
3. In Microsoft Word (or similar), do "Edit" -> "Coller" to place your image on the page.
4. "Save" your file.
5. Repeat the operation from point 1 to point 5 as many times as the number of catches desired.

... on macOS

1. Simultaneously press the keys "CMD" + "majuscule/shift" (the sharp arrow upwards) + the key "3".
2. Every time you press these keys, an image file is created on your computer's desktop.

... on iOS (iPhone, iPad...)

1. Simultaneously press the buttons "Power" + "Home( The only two physical buttons.)
2. Then get the screenshots in the "Photos" app of your device.

... on Android (e.g. Samsung, LG or Huawei)

1. Simultaneously press the key Volume Bas (on the slice) and the locking key.
2. The captured image is saved automatically in a screenshots folder of the gallery.

Windows Popup

To copy and paste as text an error message present in Windows popup, just press the key CTRL + C on your keyboard just copy the message to the clipboard. You can then paste it (CTRL + V) in the body of the message you send us.

Browser Javascript Console...

... on Windows

Chrome, Firefox and Safari: Enter the combination of keys CTRL + MAJ + i
Internet Explorer and Edge: type the key F12

... on macOS

Chrome: Enter the combination of keys ⌘ + ⌥ + J
Safari: Enter the combination of keys ⌘ + ⌥ + C

1. Then click on the barred or similar round icon to reset the log to zero.
2. Display the page of your site concerned by the concern.
3. The tab console displays the JavaScript Errors and online resources not found.

This guide details the structure kDrive Infomaniak: online interface, menus to manage and retrieve shares, utility and meaning of default folders, etc.

Preamble

• This guide applies to the Web app kDrive (online service) kdrive.infomaniak.com).
• The kDrive desktop app (desk application on macOS / Windows / Linux) is not directly affected (and will not display certain items).
• The files Common and menu Sharesare visible only with certain multi-user offers.
• Do not rename and/or move folders created by default or on the web version and even less locally, as this creates synchronization problems.

Architecture of a kDrive

The kDrive interface offers a left side menu that leads you to the main user directories:

1. The menu Common folders (Common folders - previously visible with the mention Common documents) displays the folder tree shared automatically to some or all users of the same kDrive; if they contain documents they will be displayed at the centre of the interface.
2. The menu My personal file (My personal folder) displays the folder tree of the user's own folders: indeed, each user kDrive has its own personal space which will not be shared with other users of the same kDrive; any documents will be displayed at the centre of the interface.
3. The folder Shares (Shares) displays:
   • items that are shared to you by other kDrive users, among the kDrives you have access to with your login ID
   • the items you share with other users
   • the elements you have shared by creating a sharing link
   • on Deposit boxes

Set default display when starting

You can choose with which home page to start browsing within the online kDrive, from the following 3 proposals:

• your personal file
• the file of common documents
• favourites (which gathers documents added as a favourite by your user)

To access kDrive and change the home page:

1. Click here in order to access the management of your product on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click on the icon Parameters ‍‍ Top right.
3. Check or select the relevant kDrive from the drop-down menu in the left side menu.
4. Click on General in the left side menu.
5. Choose the page that will be displayed by default upon arrival at the home page:
   

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Starting

• Synchronize kDrive between different devices
• Manage Lite Sync kDrive (macOS) option
• Manage Lite Sync kDrive (Windows) option
• Install kDrive on Linux
• kDrive folders (personal, common, shared)
• Choose kDrive folders to sync
• Edit a file on kDrive (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• kDrive subscription via Apple iOS
• Manage storage space kDrive
• Find data on kDrive

Share your data

• Manage kDrive deposit boxes
• Customize kDrive shares and repositories
• Sharing data from kDrive (Web interface)
• Share data by mail from kDrive (Web interface)

Fill in your kDrive

• Import external data to kDrive
• Import data to kDrive (iOS)
• Import data to kDrive without app kDrive
• 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)

Has more than one

• Manage user rights kDrive
• Manage access permissions to folders and subfolders
• Manage users kDrive
• Manage multiple kDrive (iOS / Android)
• Manage multiple kDrive (macOS / Windows)
• Copy certain data between kDrive you have access to

Go further with kDrive

• Manage kDrive categories to classify data
• Synchronize Joplin notes with WebDAV with kDrive
• Synchronize Qnap with kDrive
• Synchronize Synology with kDrive
• Save a meeting kMeet to kDrive
• Export e-mail attachments from Mail
• Export an e-mail to kDrive
• Add a file attached to an event in Calendar

For informed users

• Move local location kDrive
• Rename a kDrive
• Show statistics and activity report kDrive

In case of a problem

• Solve kDrive blockage (antivirus, firewall, etc.)
• Solve synchro conflict kDrive
• Solve a kDrive synchronization problem
• Solve a kDrive problem on Android device (don't kill my app)
• Solve an error Lite Sync plugin on macOS
• Empty the browser cache
• Empty the kDrive mobile app cache
• kDrive application version (macOS / Windows / Linux)
• Restore a kDrive file to its previous version
• Restore deleted kDrive file
• Force kDrive to synchronize hidden and excluded files
• Allow access to your products / Complete a request for help
• Show kDrive debugging info

Learn more about kDrive

• Data security kDrive
• Data analysis kDrive

A question or feedback?

• Contact Infomaniak Support
• Click here in order to share a review or suggestion on a Infomaniak product

This guide explains how transfer a Infomaniak product from one Organization to another.

Preamble

• You can move any product subscribed to Infomaniak to a Infomaniak Manager interface different from the one on which the product is currently located; it is therefore an internal transfer.
• Besides, if your user gives access to several organizations it's very easy to send to one of these the product of your choice.
• This operation does not train no interruption.
• The users currently having access to the selected products will not be transferred (therefore potentially no longer have access to the products).
• The Invoices of selected products will not be transferred.

Generate a transfer link

Prerequisites

• To be Administrator or Legally responsible‍within the Organization.

To transfer a product:

1. Click here in order to access the management of product transfers on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click on the button Transfer products:
   
3. Check the product(s) to be moved.
4. Get to know and accept the General conditions.
5. Click on the button Transfer.

The transfer has begun. From now on, Choices:

1. Copy the transfer link.
2. Send it to the email address of your choice.
3. Complete the transfer by selecting one of the Organizations to which your user is attached, and the selected product will be transferred:
   

Alternative method

In the case of transfer punctual you can also go directly to the dashboard of the product concerned and click on Manage (example on the image below) however this menu is not always present it is better to prefer the first method above which allows in addition Batch transfer:

Be aware of this other guide concerning Jelastic Cloud.

Receiving the product

Once a transfer is started:

1. Click here in order to gain access to the Organization that is to receive the product(s) (the user must have administrative rights).
2. Run the link obtained in the first step above.
3. Select the Destination Organization from the drop-down menu if necessary.
4. Read and accept the General conditions.
5. Click on the button Receipt of products (If the button is not clickable, make sure you have selected the Organization).

Find at all times an ongoing transfer from the bottom icon on the left side menu of the Manager Infomaniak:

This guide details possible solutions when the kDrive desktop app icon (desktop app on macOS / Windows / Linux) changes to orange which means that there has been conflict during synchronization.

Preamble

• Be aware of this other guide if you notice a problem while the kDrive desktop app icon is still Green.

What is a synchronization conflict?

Conflict files are created when...

1. ... a file is edited at the same time on both sides, either locally or on the kDrive web (its size and/or date are different); the local file is then renamed as "conflict" and the kDrive file is downloaded
2. ... files/folders are created/moved at the same time on both sides with the same name in the same folder; the local file/folder is then renamed as "conflict" and the kDrive file is downloaded
3. ... a file is edited on one side and on the other one of its parent folders is deleted; the edited file is then moved and renamed to "conflict" in the root of the drive
4. ... the resolution of a conflict involving the moving of a file/folder cannot succeed, this file/folder is then moved and renamed into "conflict" in the root of the drive
   

In cases 1 and 2, you can...

• ... keep both files locally, knowing that the file "conflict" is not synchronized on the kDrive
• ... on the local disk, delete the "conflict" file if it is the least up-to-date of both
• ... on the local disk, delete the non-conflict file if it is the least up-to-date of both, then rename the "conflict" file to synchronize it online via the kDrive application
• ... on the local disk, merge the two files into the non-conflict file and then delete the "conflict" file

In any case, please always be careful to keep the most up-to-date version on the online kDrive.

Note that the case one can also occur when the computer application is uninstalled and then reinstalled while keeping the configuration and in the meantime changes take place on the drive. In order to avoid this, it is recommended not to uninstall the kDrive application by keeping the configuration (other recommendations are presented below).

How to display conflicts?

To view files in conflict:

1. Make one left click on the desktop app icon in the notification area of your computer (top right on macOS, bottom right on Windows and a double left click in the Linux taskbar).
2. Click on the information button at the top.
3. Click on the listed event to see its details:
   
4. Conflicts and errors are displayed in 2 separate tabs allowing you to read unsynchronized data:
   
   
    
5. The first tab allows you to resolve conflicts:
   
6. You will then have to choose how to resolve the conflict by deciding to send the local version
   1. on the server (= sync)
   2. or to the computer basket
      

Avoid synchronization conflicts / blacklist

The recommendations:

• Do not work on the same file with multiples (unless you work online on a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document).
• Sync your offline changes before editing the same files online
• Avoid creating folders with the same name as folders that you do not sync on a device

A blacklist conflict may also occur if problematic characters are found among the synchronised filenames, such as the tilde ~ the slash (oblique bar) / or backslash \ and certain types of files like System Volume Information and certain extensions such as .idlk,.parms.db,.directory, ._* etc.

If necessary, for manually resolve some synchronization conflicts which would not have been automatically:

1. Open both files.
2. Compare differences.
3. Retrieve the information of the conflict file (the one with the exclamation point) in the base file.
4. Remove the conflict file that is not synchronized (this with the exclamation point and the mention conflicted copy):
   

This guide explains how to import (only once) to kDrive data (file, folder, etc.) from an external cloud, that of your previous provider e.g.:

• Dropbox
• OneDrive
• OwnCloud
• NextCloud
• any device with a service WebDAV including kDrive external (be aware of this other guide)
• other kDrive to which your user account has access (except "external" access)

For iCloud and Google Drive, read the last chapter at the bottom of this guide.

Data not imported

• The data that have been shared with you are not imported.
  • Only the data you actually own will be imported.
• The Google documents Gdocs type, Sheets, Slide, etc. are not imported (in an import Dropbox e.g.).
• Documents Dropbox Paper.‍
• The sharing links Dropbox, visible Here.
• Individually shared Dropbox files, visibleHere(on the other hand, file sharing and common documents will be imported)

Copy data from an external cloud to kDrive

In order to import the data:

1. Click here to access the web app kDrive Infomaniak (online service) kdrive.infomaniak.com).
2. Click on the icon Parameters ‍ Top right.
3. Check or select the relevant kDrive from the drop-down menu in the left side menu.
4. Click on Import External Data :
   
5. Click on Start.
6. Choose the service concerned (be aware of the last chapter at the bottom of this guide).
7. Choose the location on which the imported files will be stored.
8. Enter any information if requested and click the blue button Start:
   
9. Enter any information if requested and click the blue button Continue.
10. Finish the assistant.
11. Wait while the data is being imported.

Manage current import

For follow current imports, return at any time to the page mentioned in point 5 above.

For Stop a current import, click on the action menu to the right of the import listed on the page and choose to cancel (in case of a voluntary interruption, an email report is sent to the administrator).

Check your imported data immediately after the operation.

What about Google Drive or iCloud Drive?

Apple does not offer APIs like its competitors, the solution to repatriate documents from a iCloud Drive is to install theapp kDrive macOS in order to synchronize the iCloud folder that must be in your library. You may consider the same solution for Google Drive Google documents such as Gdocs, Sheets, Slide, etc. will be converted to a standard Microsoft .doc format.

This guide explains how to access kDrive files locally on hard drive via desktop app kDrive (desktop application on macOS / Windows / Linux), as well as web app files kDrive (online service) kdrive.infomaniak.com).

Prerequisites

• Install kDrive desktop app on your device.

View kDrive files

When the kDrive application is installed and launched:

1. Make one left click on the app icon in the notification area of your computer (top right on macOS, bottom right on Windows and a double left click in the taskbar on Linux).
2. Click on the action menu ⋮ Top right.
3. Click on Open kDrive Web to access files stored on the server kDrive:
   
4. Click on the above item to open the disk folder on your computer containing your kDrive files, Physical present or Virtually present (as determined by Lite Sync is enabled).

This guide explains how to synchronize files stored in kDrive to easily access it on all your macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android devices.

Preamble

• The kDrive desktop app (desktop application on macOS / Windows / Linux) automatically synchronizes any changes to your files & folders from the desktop (Finder / Explorer) directly or from the mobile app & web app.
  • You have the opportunity to customize your Drive folders that need to be synchronized on your computer.
• The kDrive mobile app (app for iOS/Android smartphone or tablet) allows you to access all your content while on the go but also automatically save photos from your mobile.
  • Be careful, there's no no automatic synchronization between the content of your mobile device and kDrive This operation is identical to competing apps that do not offer it either, since the restrictions of mobile OS are too important to allow it (generally paid alternative solutions exist via third-party apps using the protocol). WebDAV).

Download kDrive to computer

Minimum requirements for using the kDrive desktop app (desktop application on macOS / Windows / Linux)

* no context menu at right click on OS

Your operating system will be automatically detected to offer you the right version to download (be aware of this other guide If you are on Linux) then follow the installation wizard by granting the necessary rights to the application:

1. Open it kDrive download page to download kDrive.
2. Install the downloaded application.
3. When installing, pay attention to authorizations that may be requested by the assistant (especially on macOS) and that must be granted for the proper functioning of the application:
   
4. At the end of the installation, the application must open (if not start the application). kDrive Manually from the device).
5. A form asks you to log in to your Infomaniak account (Need help?):
   
6. Then choose your kDrive offer from the list (if your account allows access to multiple kDrive):
   
7. Activate or not the option Lite Sync (Functionality of the app Windows and macOS which saves space by virtually storing your kDrive files on your computer, downloading them only when necessary):
   
8. A kDrive folder is created on your hard drive in the specified location (location that can be changed by clicking on the icon) pencil and will contain any existing files on your kDrive (some folders can be ignored - read below) and will send all the files you will place on the kDrive server in the future:
   

Sync files with kDrive

Once the app is installed and the connection to your account is established, you have the kDrive app on your device:

• On a computer, the app icon appears in the notification area of your computer (top right on macOS, bottom right on Windows and a double left click on the Linux taskbar) and a folder kDrive is automatically created in your personal documents.
  

This guide explains how to automatically transfer photos from your mobile device (iOS / Android) tokDrive Infomaniak. Once this feature is enabled, the photos of the mobile device (located in the folder of your choice) will be saved in a folder of your choice on kDrive.

Prerequisites

• Possession a kDrive.
• Possession kDrive mobile app (app for iOS/Android smartphone or tablet).

Enable uploading of photos to kDrive...

... on iOS (iPhone, iPad)

1. Open the kDrive mobile app (iOS).
2. Press the photo/initials at the bottom right.
3. Press Parameters:
   
4. Press Photo Backup to activate it
   
5. Enable Automatic backup.
6. Allow kDrive to access the photo location of your choice:
   
7. Choose the kDrive to use as well as the kDrive folder that will host your content:
   
8. Configure the rest (send including videos and screenshots, monthly ranking, request to delete the content left on the device, recursivity, etc.) and press Save:
   

... on Android

1. Open the kDrive mobile app (Android).
2. Press the photo/initials at the bottom right.
3. Press Parameters:
   
4. Press Photo Backup:
   
   
    
5. Enable Automatic backup.
6. Allow the different accesses that the kDrive application needs to access the image tree on the device.
7. Allow operation in the background:
   
8. Read the guide for operation in the background advanced If necessary.
9. Validate the shares.
10. Close this part:
    
11. Choose the kDrive to use as well as the kDrive folder to host your content
    
12. Choose the folder of the mobile device in which your photos are to be sent to kDrive:
    
13. Configure the rest (send including videos, monthly ranking, request to delete the content left on the device, recursivity, timing time, etc.) and press Save:
    

This guide explains how to select folders which will have to be synchronized between the desktop app kDrive (desktop application on macOS / Windows / Linux) and kDrive Infomaniak.

Prerequisites

• Possession kDrive.
• Possession kDrive application on the device to be synchronized.
• Check the parameter for limitation of synchronization of large folders.

Choose kDrive folders to sync

To access the kDrive application settings on your computer:

1. Make a left click on the desktop app icon in the notification area of your computer (top right on macOS, bottom right on Windows and a double left click on the Linux taskbar).
2. Click on the icon ⋮ all right in the app.
3. Click on KDrive Settings:
   
4. Click on the chevron ‍ to the left of the name of your kDrive to deploy the folder list.
5. Possiblely deploy the contents of listed folders and check/uncheck folders to sync with your computer:
   
6. Click the blue button Validate.

Attention

• During the deselect a folder of the list, a message next to the button (point 6 above) warns you that a moving this folder will be made to the trash of your computer.
• This is the folder that was in your kDrive tree on your computer.
• kDrive folders on the web browser-accessible online version will not be affected but you have to make sure, before the operation, that the folder in question was well synchronized and fully present on this online version (especially if you had just placed it in your synchronized directory).
• In case of doubt, also make sure that your computer does not instantly erase the too large items when they are placed in the basket, because of the size of Windows Trash e.g.:
  
   

Add Advanced Synchronization

At the same place accessible according to the above procedure, click on ‍‍ Add Advanced Synchronization :

which will allow you to synchronize one or more new folder(s) of your hard drive with the location of your choice on kDrive.

Stop and remove synchronization

At the same location accessible according to the above procedure, click on the icon ⋮ all right:

which will allow you to:

• Force synchronization
• Break synchronization
• Remove synchronization (only from your device, without affecting your kDrive)