Chapter 1. What is the Purpose of the Drive Apps?

An Drive app is installed locally on your workstation or mobile device. This Drive app enables you to access files and folders that are located on the server. The Drive app synchronizes data between your local machine or mobile device and the server. You define the data to be synchronized:

  • In order to synchronize on a workstation, you have to define the following folders:

    • A local folder on your workstation.

    • One or multiple folders on the Groupware server.

  • On a mobile device, you select the objects to be synchronized by marking those objects as available off-line.

  • On a mobile device, you can further define that photos or videos are uploaded to the server. This function is called photostream.

Each change applied on the server is transferred to the workstation and the mobile devices. Each change applied on the workstation or a mobile device is transferred to the server and other devices.

The following changes are synchronized:

  • new files

  • file content changes

  • file renamings

  • file deletions

  • new folders

  • folder renamings

  • folder deletions

On the server, you can select the following folders for synchronizing:

  • Personal folders

  • Public folders, shared folders

Depending on the server configuration, some folders can not be used for synchronization.

You can use the Drive apps to cooperate with other users or external partners by sharing files or folders with read or edit permissions.

The following systems are supported:

  • MS Windows

  • Mac OS

  • iOS

  • Android