Creating and setting up drives
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The New button creates a drive or a folder:
- New disk and New folderNew folder is created in the open drive or folder.
- Edit diskappears when a drive is selected, to change its name, its description and its visibility.
Creating a drive
Click New, then New disk:
- Disk nameas it will appear in the left column.
- Descriptionoptional, to say what is stored there.
- Public diska new drive is private: the toggle is off. Turn Public disk on to open it to members. The sentence below recalls who will see it.
Click Create.
Editing a drive
Select the drive in the left column, then click Edit disk. Right-clicking a drive also offers Edit disk, Rename and Delete drive.
- Disk namecan be changed at any time.
- Public diskthe toggle, here off: the drive is private. Turning it on opens the drive to all members straight away.
- Visible to (groups)for a private drive only. Choose the groups whose active members will see the drive; left empty, the drive stays open to all the roles that have the View right. A group deleted in the contacts disappears from the drives restricted to it; if it was a drive's last group, the drive becomes visible again to all the roles that have the View right, and stays private.
Preparing the access groups
The Visible to (groups) field only offers the groups declared in Settings › Documents:
- Documentsthe settings entry.
- Access groupschoose the groups that will be able to open private drives, then click Save. Only the groups with no subgroup are offered.
As long as no group is declared there, the drive's window says that no group is available.
Creating a folder
Open the drive or the parent folder, click New, then New folder. Type the name and click Create:
Deleting a drive
Right-click the drive, then Delete drive, and confirm. The drive must be empty: no folder, no file, trash included. First empty its trash with Delete permanently.