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Sharing

Select a file or folder and choose Share. There are two kinds of link.

Private link Public CDN link
Best for Sending files to particular people Embedding a file on a website
Works on Files and folders Files
Password Optional No
Expiry Optional No
Download count Yes No
Taking it back New visits stop at once Stops when the CDN’s cache expires
Needs Nothing extra Public access

Use a private link unless you need a permanent, cacheable URL. How it works explains why they’re built differently.

Section titled “Private links”
  1. In the Share dialog, choose when the link Expires: Never, or in 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days.
  2. Optionally set a Password of at least 8 characters.
  3. Choose Create link, then copy the address. It looks like APP_URL/share/<token>.

Anyone with a link to a file can download it. Anyone with a link to a folder can browse and download everything in it, including its subfolders and anything added later.

An item can have several links, for example one for each person. The dialog lists them all with their download counts. Show brings a link’s address back so you can copy it again. A link marked too old to show again still works, but its address can’t be displayed, so create a new one if you’ve lost it.

After 10 wrong password attempts, a link is locked for 15 minutes.

Section titled “End a private link”

Choose Revoke beside the link. New visits stop right away, but a download already started can continue, because a download URL that was already issued keeps working for up to 15 minutes.

A link stops working in any of these cases:

  • It’s revoked or expires.
  • The file or folder is moved to trash. Restoring it doesn’t bring the link back.
  • The file goes missing from the bucket.
  • The owner’s account is disabled. The link works again if the account is enabled.

A visitor sees the same “not available” message in each case, so a link never reveals why it stopped.

Section titled “Public CDN links”

A public link serves a copy of the file from your CDN’s domain. The Public CDN link tab appears in the Share dialog for files on a storage with public access set up.

Choose Publish to create the copy and get its address.

  • The copy is stored separately, and your provider bills for it.
  • The copy doesn’t follow changes to the original. If the file changes or goes missing, the dialog says the copy is out of date. Republish replaces it and creates a new link.
  • Publishing again always creates a new link, so an old address never comes back to life.
Section titled “End a public link”

Choose Unpublish. Moving the file to trash does the same, and restoring it doesn’t publish it again.

The copy is deleted from the bucket, but the CDN can keep serving its cached version until the cache expires. Public copies are sent with a one-hour cache lifetime unless your CDN overrides it.

Section titled “Set up public links”

Each storage needs a CDN pointed at a separate public location. In Settings > Storages, open the storage’s menu and choose Public access. Public CDN links covers the setup.

Before a storage can publish, Fileee checks that private files can’t be reached through the CDN. The check repeats with each sync. If it fails, the storage shows CDN check failing and new publishing is blocked, but copies already published stay up. Troubleshooting lists the usual causes.