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# Cloud Drive for Windows | # Cloud Drive for Windows | ||
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Cloud Drive is included with the [[: | Cloud Drive is included with the [[: | ||
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## Overview | ## Overview | ||
- | The Cloud Drive App for Windows allows users and applications to access all their private and public cloud storage, network file systems and other distributed storage from their Windows desktop as if it were a single virtual filesystem. The drive, a component of the Enterprise File Fabric | + | The Cloud Drive App for Windows allows users and applications to access all their private and public cloud storage, network file systems and other distributed storage from their Windows desktop as if it were a single virtual filesystem. The drive, a component of the Nasuni Access Anywhere |
Users can browse and open remote files with their favorite desktop applications including Microsoft Office. The drive includes a local cache and upload manager for performance. It is accessible from the command prompt and can be used in scripts. | Users can browse and open remote files with their favorite desktop applications including Microsoft Office. The drive includes a local cache and upload manager for performance. It is accessible from the command prompt and can be used in scripts. | ||
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### Installation | ### Installation | ||
- | After the Enterprise File Fabric | + | After the Nasuni Access Anywhere |
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* **Enable Cloud Actions context menu** - Access sharing, comments, locking from within File Explorer. | * **Enable Cloud Actions context menu** - Access sharing, comments, locking from within File Explorer. | ||
- | * **Enable move hook for folder operations** - Rename and move operations are processed by the File Fabric. | + | * **Enable move hook for folder operations** - Rename and move operations are processed by Access Anywhere. |
These options are also available via Cloud Drive Menu or Settings: | These options are also available via Cloud Drive Menu or Settings: | ||
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### Startup | ### Startup | ||
- | After installing the Enterprise File Fabric | + | After installing the Nasuni Access Anywhere |
- | ### Connect to File Fabric | + | ### Connect to Access Anywhere |
- | You will need a username and password, as well as the endpoint for your instance of the Enterprise File Fabric | + | You will need a username and password, as well as the endpoint for your instance of the Nasuni Access Anywhere |
- | If your system is set up for single sign on, you may be asked to use your corporate credentials. Two factor authentication may have also been configured for your account. | + | If your system is set up for single sign-on, you may be asked to use your corporate credentials. Two-factor authentication may have also been configured for your account. |
- | Once you have logged in the drive will be connected to the File Fabric. You'll also see the Settings screen below. Click the **" | + | Once you have logged in the drive will be connected to Access Anywhere. You'll also see the Settings screen below. Click the **" |
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- | ### Folders, Files and the Cache | + | |
+ | ==== Folders, Files and the Cache ==== | ||
Open the drive in the Windows File Explorer by clicking on the drive letter. You can also click on the taskbar icon. | Open the drive in the Windows File Explorer by clicking on the drive letter. You can also click on the taskbar icon. | ||
- | All folders and files indexed by the File Fabric, potentially from many different cloud and on-premise storage services will be shown through the single virtual drive. | + | All folders and files indexed by Access Anywhere, potentially from many different cloud and on-premise storage services will be shown through the single virtual drive. |
For performance, | For performance, | ||
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- | Note: Your organization may have pre-configured several drive letters each with unique views into the File Fabric. For more information see [[: | + | Note: Your organization may have pre-configured several drive letters each with unique views into Access Anywhere. For more information see [[: |
### Drive Uploader | ### Drive Uploader | ||
- | After files are created or changed the drive sends the file to the File Fabric. A separate process, the Drive Uploader, coordinates the uploading of files and folders to maximize network bandwidth, but also to allow the local application (and user) to continue work. | + | After files are created or changed the drive sends the file to Access Anywhere. A separate process, the Drive Uploader, coordinates the uploading of files and folders to maximize network bandwidth, but also to allow the local application (and user) to continue work. |
+ | #### Exclusion/ | ||
+ | Files that start with ~ (tilde) and files that match the exclusion list are not uploaded unless those files already exist on the backend storage. | ||
+ | Temporary and backup with .ac$ and .bak extensions are also excluded. | ||
## User Guide | ## User Guide | ||
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Access the Cloud Drive menu by right-clicking on the taskbar icon. | Access the Cloud Drive menu by right-clicking on the taskbar icon. | ||
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* **Browse Drive** - Opens Windows File Explorer | * **Browse Drive** - Opens Windows File Explorer | ||
- | * **Refresh now** - Forces the drive to refresh folder listings | + | * **Refresh now** - Forces the drive to refresh folder listings |
- | * **Stop Drive** - Stops the drive letter but not the app | + | * **Stop Drive** - Stops the drive letter but not the app |
* **Manage uploads** - Opens Uploader window permanently | * **Manage uploads** - Opens Uploader window permanently | ||
* **Hide uploads** - Don't show Uploader window during uploads | * **Hide uploads** - Don't show Uploader window during uploads | ||
* **Show overlay icons** - Indicates if cache status is shown on File Explorer icons | * **Show overlay icons** - Indicates if cache status is shown on File Explorer icons | ||
- | * **Enable logging** - Logs drive activity for troubleshooting | + | * **Enable logging** - Logs drive activity for [[: |
* **Browser logs folder** - Opens logs folder in File Explorer | * **Browser logs folder** - Opens logs folder in File Explorer | ||
* **Start with Windows** - Start the drive automatically | * **Start with Windows** - Start the drive automatically | ||
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* **About...** - Shows version, terms of use and privacy policy | * **About...** - Shows version, terms of use and privacy policy | ||
* **Wiki/ | * **Wiki/ | ||
- | * **Sign Out** - Stops the drive and logs out of File Fabric | + | * **Sign Out** - Stops the drive and logs out of Access Anywhere |
- | * **Exit** - Stops the app (doesn' | + | * **Exit** - Stops the app (doesn' |
### Settings | ### Settings | ||
Access Cloud Drive **Settings** via the right-click menu from the taskbar icon. | Access Cloud Drive **Settings** via the right-click menu from the taskbar icon. | ||
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- | * **Sign Out** - Change | + | * **Sign Out** - Change |
* **Edit Drive** - right-click on Cloud Drive (S:) to change the drive letter or label (default is //S:// and //Cloud Drive//). Additional letters can be added through the [[: | * **Edit Drive** - right-click on Cloud Drive (S:) to change the drive letter or label (default is //S:// and //Cloud Drive//). Additional letters can be added through the [[: | ||
- | * **Refresh folders contents** - Click on //X minutes// to change | + | * **Refresh folders contents** - Click on //X minutes// to set the cache duration for folder listings |
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+ | This setting applies when a user navigates to a folder in the Cloud Drive. | ||
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+ | When Cloud Drive version 22.05.25 or later and Access Anywhere v2106.06 or later are used together with a provider for which real-time cloud refresh is active, a request by the Cloud Drive to Access Anywhere for a fresh directory listing causes the following to happen: | ||
+ | * Access Anywhere immediately sends the Cloud Drive the most recent listing information that Access Anywhere already has. | ||
+ | * The Cloud Drive displays this listing immediately. | ||
+ | * Access Anywhere fetches an updated listing from the storage. | ||
+ | * When the updated listing is available, the Cloud Drive retrieves it from Access Anywhere and displays it. | ||
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- | * **Allow server realtime folder refresh** - Enable this option so that folder listings will use realtime refresh setting. Requires File Fabric Sync option " | ||
* **Always show icons, never thumbnails** - Enable this option so that Windows Explorer doesn' | * **Always show icons, never thumbnails** - Enable this option so that Windows Explorer doesn' | ||
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* **Exclusion list** - Enable this option to change the temporary files the drive ignores by default. | * **Exclusion list** - Enable this option to change the temporary files the drive ignores by default. | ||
- | * **Don' | + | * **Delete files cached for more than X hours** - If enabled remove files in local cache after a configurable number of hours. |
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- | * **Delete files cached for more than X hours** - If enabled remove files in local cache after configurable number of hours. | + | |
* **Delete cached files larger than X MB after upload** - If enabled remove files larger than configured size from local cache after uploading. | * **Delete cached files larger than X MB after upload** - If enabled remove files larger than configured size from local cache after uploading. | ||
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* **Delete cached files when Windows shuts down** - Clears cache on reboot. | * **Delete cached files when Windows shuts down** - Clears cache on reboot. | ||
- | * **File cache folder** - Change location of the local cache. Network locations are not supported. | + | * **File cache folder** - Change |
* **Clear** - Clears files in the cache that have not been uploaded. | * **Clear** - Clears files in the cache that have not been uploaded. | ||
* **Browse** - Opens the cache location in File Explorer. | * **Browse** - Opens the cache location in File Explorer. | ||
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### Bandwidth Settings | ### Bandwidth Settings | ||
- | There are a few Enterprise File Fabric | + | There are a few Nasuni Access Anywhere |
- | Access **Settings** via the right-click menu from the Enterprise File Fabric | + | Access **Settings** via the right-click menu from the Nasuni Access Anywhere |
* **Transfer up to** - Number of simultaneous uploads for the Drive Uploader | * **Transfer up to** - Number of simultaneous uploads for the Drive Uploader | ||
To use M-Stream with the Cloud Drive you'll need to explicitly allow multistream uploads and downloads. | To use M-Stream with the Cloud Drive you'll need to explicitly allow multistream uploads and downloads. | ||
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### Cloud Actions | ### Cloud Actions | ||
Through the Windows File Explorer users can 'right click' folders and files access to 'Cloud File Actions' | Through the Windows File Explorer users can 'right click' folders and files access to 'Cloud File Actions' | ||
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The following actions may be available depending on the type of file: | The following actions may be available depending on the type of file: | ||
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* **Properties** - Cloud properties for a file or folder, showing description, | * **Properties** - Cloud properties for a file or folder, showing description, | ||
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+ | ### Cloud Search | ||
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+ | Cloud Search finds files with names that match a search string provided by the user. Cloud Search is available from the right-click context menu for every folder: | ||
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+ | Regardless of the folder that is highlighted when the option is selected, the search operates across all of the directories in all of the providers to which the user has access through the Cloud Drive. | ||
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+ | To search the Cloud Drive, select the Search menu option to expose the Cloud Search window: | ||
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+ | Then enter at least three characters into the search box and click on the magnifying glass symbol or press Return. Files with names that contain the character string you entered will be listed in the Search Window: | ||
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+ | Double clicking on a found file opens it in the editor that is associated with it (if there is one). | ||
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+ | Right-clicking on any of the found files opens a context menu that provides additional actions you can take on the file: | ||
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+ | #### Download | ||
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+ | The Download feature downloads the contents of the selected directory to the folder of your choice. Download is available from the right-click context menu for every folder: | ||
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+ | After highlighting the folder and clicking on the menu option, choose the destination folder for the download from the Browse for Folder window and click on Ok: | ||
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+ | The Downloading window will appear and show the progress of the download: | ||
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+ | ## Embedded External File References | ||
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+ | Many applications, | ||