Updated the howto to reffer to version 2.5.2 of nextcloud desktop client
Updated features and account setting procces Added integration with nautilus file manager
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Using the Nexcloud desktop client provides a way to sync your files stored in your Disroot cloud with a local folder on your desktop.
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Meaning you can access/add/remove/edit the files in your Disroot account on your desktop without needing to log to your account via
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web-browser.
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# Meta information
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This howto was last updated on 06-04-2019 and it reffers to:
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- Nextcloud Desktop sync client: version - 2.5.2git
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- nautilus-nextcloud integration plugin - 2.5.0-1 AUR
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**NOTE:** If the howto reffers to an older software version than the provided by **Disroot**, or the one you're using in your device, there could be missing features or small parts of the information that may have changed.
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**Disroot's** how-to documentation is a community driven procces. We try to keep it as updated as we can.
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---
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Using the Nexcloud desktop client provides a way to sync your files stored in your **Disroot Cloud** with a local folder on your desktop.
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Meaning you can access/add/remove/edit the files in your **Disroot** account on your desktop without needing to log to your account via web-browser, and can access them when offline.
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# Install Nexcloud app (client)
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If you don't have Nextcloud-client installed on your desktop yet, you can see how to do it [here](https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients).
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For users of ubuntu or ubuntu based distributions you can find better detailed instructions [here](https://www.c-rieger.de/how-to-install-nextcloud-desktop-client-for-ubuntu/).
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You can see how to install the Nextcloud desktop app [here](https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients).
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Users of ubuntu or ubuntu based distributions you can find better detailed instructions [here](https://www.c-rieger.de/how-to-install-nextcloud-desktop-client-for-ubuntu/).
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# Add a new account
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The first time you run Nextcloud-client you will be directly greeted with account setup.
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Add disroot's address in URL field **https://cloud.disroot.org**, then press "next".
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The first time you run the Nextcloud Desktop client you will be directly greeted with account setup:
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- **Select:** Log in
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- **Server Address:** [cloud.disroot.org](cloud.disroot.org)
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- Press: Next
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Next add your disroot account details:
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Username: *your Disroot username*
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Password: *your Disroot account password*
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Then press **"next"**
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## Login into your account<br>
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There are two ways of doing it:
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- **App Password (for Two factor authentication)**
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- **Normal Credentials**
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## App Password (for Two factor authentication)
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If you have enabled **Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)** in your **Disroot Cloud**, then you need to:
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Now it's time to choose what do you want to sync and where should it be synced on your harddrive. By default Nextcloud wants to create a folder called "Nexcloud" in your home folder. This folder will be used to sync all the files you store on your cloud to.
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- Generate an "App Password", in the **Security** section of your **Disroot Cloud** account web interface, to generate an especific **App Password** for the Nextcloud Desktop Client. You can read on how to do that [here](https://howto.disroot.org/en/cloud/introduction#app-password).
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You can choose to sync everything or select which folders you would like to have synced. This is specially useful if your cloud storage is huge and you don't want to have exact copy of it on your desktop or laptop. This setting can be changed at any time later on.
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Once you have your **App Password** token **created** and **copied**, in the login menu:
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Once you are happy with the settings, just hit "Connect"
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- **Select:** "Alternative login using app token"
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- **Username:** *your_disroot_account_username*
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- **App Token:** Paste the App Token you created
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- **Press:** Grant Access
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And then **finish**
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Any file you edit in this folder (.txt, spreadsheet, word) will be synced with your Disroot cloud. Any files you remove or add will be removed or added in your Disroot cloud. This of course works the other way around. Any change done on Disroot cloud interface will reflect your synced folder on your desktop, unless you opted out from synchronizing a particular file or folder.
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## Normal Credentials (no Two factor authentication)
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If you do not have 2FAenabeled then just:
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- Press the Log in button
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- **Username:** *your_disroot_account_username*
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- **Password:** *your_super_secret_password*
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- Press the Log in button again
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- Then press **"Grant Access"**
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## Configure sync folder
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Final step in addin a new account is to configure the sync folder.
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After you successfully log in you will be prompted with a options panel where you can:
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- Select what folders to sync from your **Disroot Cloud** to your machine, by pressing "Choose what to sync"
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- Set a limit to not sync any file above a certain size you decided (this can be changed later at any point).
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- Authorize if you also want to sync external storages (you can know more about External Storages [here](https://howto.disroot.org/en/cloud/introduction#external-storages))
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- Change the destination folder where your files will be synced in your hard drive (The Nextcloud Desktop Client will by default create a folder called "Nextcloud", in your home folder).
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Once you are happy with the settings, just hit "Connect" at the lower left corner of the menu.
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Any file you edit in the local folder in your machine (.txt, spreadsheet, word) will be synced with your **Disroot Cloud**. Any files you remove or add will be removed or added in your **Disroot Cloud**. Any change done from the interface will reflect your synced folder on your desktop, unless you opted out from synchronizing a particular file or folder.
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# General options
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Nextcloud-client opens by default in the background. By interacting with nextcloud systray icon you can focus the app.
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Nextcloud client opens by default in the background. By interacting with nextcloud systray icon you can focus the app.
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The app consists of 4 main tabs:
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- Your account
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- Activities
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- General
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- Network
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- [Your account tab](#your-account-tab)
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- [Activity tab](#activity-tab)
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- [General tab](#General tab)
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- [Network tab](#network-tab)
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## Your account
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Gives you general sense of what's the current status of your app. You can:
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- see the status of any synchronization
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- choose what folders to sync by clicking in the checkbox option
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- confirm the signature of the ssl keys by pressing the padlock button
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# Your account tab
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Gives you general sense of what's the current status of your app.
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The account button let's you remove your account from the desktop client or add a new one. Nextcloud client work with multiple accounts. You aren't even restricted to only disroot accounts either. You can add any nextcloud/owncloud account from any other server (including your own server of course).
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**You can:**
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- See the status of any synchronization, and remaining disk space on your **Disroot Cloud** account
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## Adding another account
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Adding extra account is the same as adding the first one. You will be asked the same questions during the setup. The important thing to keep in mind. **You can't use the same Nextcloud folder** with multiple active accounts. You should therefore make sure you are syncing to another folder.
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- Choose what folders to sync or stop syncing by clicking in the checkbox option. You will need to press the Apply button on the lower right corner of the window for the changes to take effect
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- Confirm the signature of the ssl keys by pressing the padlock button
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- Pause/Restart synchronization
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- Open the desktop folder where your files are
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- Remove folder
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All by pressing the three dotted button
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- Add a new account
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- Remove account
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- Logout
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All by pressing the **"Account"** button on the upper right side of the window
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## Adding multiple accounts
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Nextcloud Desktop Client works with multiple accounts. You aren't even restricted to only **Disroot** accounts either. You can add any Nextcloud account from any other server (including your own server of course).
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Adding extra account is the same as adding the first one.
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In the **"Account"** button:
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- Press **"Add new"**
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- Follow the same steps as you did to register the first account (adjust the URL's if it's a different server)
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**NOTE:** The important thing to keep in mind. **You can't use the same Nextcloud folder** with multiple active accounts.<br>
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During the configuration process of a second account, Nextcloud Desktop Client will create in your home folder a folder called **Nextcloud2"**. Keep and eye out for this.
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After you add a second account your, it will show up on the top bar of the app. This is how you also switch between accounts if you need to change settings.
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You will also see one separate **Activity tab** for each account.
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## Activity tab
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**Activity** tab gives you an overview on all the uploaded/downloaded/added/removed files and folders from your accounts. Similar to Activity app in disroot cloud interface.
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## General tab
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# Activity tab
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**Activity** tab gives you an overview on all the uploaded/downloaded/added/removed files and folders from your accounts. Similar to Activity app in **Disroot cloud interface.**
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# General tab
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**General** tab lets you:
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- Set the limit for files sizes that you download to you local folder
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- Set if the client should ask permission to sync external storages
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- Set to show notifications on your desktop
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- Launch this panel when the system starts
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- Launch Nextcloud Desktop Client when the system starts
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- See legal notice and if there are any updates
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## Network tab
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- Configure your nextcloud desktop client for your proxy setting (if you are using a proxy)
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- Set maximum download and upload bandwidth (can be use full if your bandwidth is limited)
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**Edit Ignored Files**
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Some files are ignored by default, and not synced by Nextcloud Desktop Client. For example hidden files or files that the name starts with: "~/", "."
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If this affects you, you can change this by:
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- Pressing the button **"Edit Ignored Files"**
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- Press the option **"Sync hidden files"** (if you want to sync all hidden files)
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- Press the checkbox options to edit manually what files to allow to sync
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- To add new rules for files to ignore press **"Add"**
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- At the end press **"ok"**
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- You can set the rules back to the original setting by pressing **"Restore Defaults"**
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# Network tab
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The Network tab allows you to:
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- Configure your nextcloud desktop client for your proxy settings (if you are using a proxy)
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- Set maximum download and upload bandwidth
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## Sharing From Your Desktop (macos and windows only!)
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# Sharing From Your Desktop
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If you are using Windows or MacOS it's possible to create share links directly from the local folder of a file or sub-folder to send by email to someone else. By right clicking on the file/or folder
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Nextcloud Desktop Client allows integration, with some linux file managers, allowing you to share a file without needing to open the web interface of your **Disroot Cloud** account.
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Supported file managers at this moment are:
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- Nautilus
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- Nemo
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- Caja
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- Dolphin
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And you will be presented with the same sharing options as if you where accessing your files in your Disroot account using a browser.
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For the first three file managers you need to install
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- `Nextcloud-client-nautilus` plugin.
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The plugin name might be different in some linux distributions e.g in Arch Linux it's `nextcloud-nautilus`.
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- `python-nautilus` a dependency.
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KDE/dolpfin file manager users must install the dolphin plugin for nextcloud.
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This feature does not exist when using Linux :(
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Though if you use nautilus file browser (gnome,unity,etc) you could install additional plugin called owncloud-client-nautilus (naming depends on the distribution, could be nextcloud instead).
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This integration allows you to:
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- Create Share links of files or folders
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- Manage those share links
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- Delete them
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- Set expiry date
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- Set a password to open the link
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- Share directly with other users or groups (if you know their usernames, or group name)
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To create a **share link** go to the Nextcloud folder on your machine with the file or folder you want to share.
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Once you copied the link just send it via email, or some other way.
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To share directly with **another user or group** of **Disroot Cloud** (if you the persons username, or the group name)
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Just:
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- Write the username or group name in question in the textbox
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- Press the arrow button on the right side of the textbox
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And you will see in the botton of the window information regarding that particular share.
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And manage the share with the user in question:
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- Deleting the share
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- Allow resharing
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- Allow editing
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You can manage these shares you create from your file manager at any time by the same process you used to originally create the share:
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- Right clicking on the file or folder
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- Select the nextcloud option
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- And press share
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**File status icon**
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With file manager integration, the file manager generates icons on the folders and files inside your nextcloud folder.
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This allows you to quicklly see which files and folders where:
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- Successfully synced or not
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- That are still syncing
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- Shared
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