Add, open and manage files in your Vault

Everything you add to an unlocked Vault is encrypted in your browser before it is uploaded. Inside the Vault, you work with your files much as in your Drive, with a few differences explained below.

#Add files

1. Open your Vault and unlock it.

   See Unlock and lock your Vault.

2. Open the folder where the files should go.

3. Click Upload, then Upload files or Upload folder.

   

4. Choose the files or the folder on your computer.

   Uploaded 1 file (or the number of files) confirms it, and the transfers panel lists the upload as Import to Vault.

The maximum file size is the same as in your Drive. In your storage, a Vault file counts for its encrypted size.

#Create encrypted documents

Click Create, then choose:

• Text document for a plain text file;

• Encrypted page for a page like the ones in Pages;

• Encrypted whiteboard for a whiteboard.

To organise your files, click Create folder.

#Open and preview files

Images, PDFs, audio, video, text and code files open in a preview, decrypted in your browser. You can edit text and code files up to 20 MB, and preview Word documents (.docx) up to 25 MB and spreadsheets up to 50 MB.

For other file types, the preview shows Preview for this file type is not supported in the vault: download the file to open it.

#Download files

Select the files, then click Download, or right-click a file and choose Download. The file is decrypted in your browser: File downloaded and decrypted successfully confirms it. Folders download as a ZIP file. When your browser cannot write directly to your disk, a download is held in memory, up to 500 MB on a computer and 100 MB on a phone.

#Move, rename and delete

Right-click a file or a folder, or click the ⋮ button at the end of its row. The menu offers Open, Info, Share, Add to starred, Move to, Rename, Download and Delete. When you select items, the bar above the list also offers Open, Share, Download and Delete.

• Files can only be moved within the same vault.

• Delete moves the item to the Vault's Trash at once, without a confirmation: Moved 1 item to trash appears, with Undo to bring it back right away.

• The Vault's Trash is in the Vault's sidebar. It is not emptied automatically, and its files count against your storage. Right-click a file in the trash for Open, Info, Download, Restore and Delete permanently; Restore puts it back where it was (Restored 1 item). Empty trash empties the whole Vault trash.

#What is different from your Drive

#On your computer

On Windows, your personal Vault also opens in Drime Desktop, with the same Vault Pass. See Vault on your computer and phone.

#If it doesn't work

#Next steps

• What is Vault?

• Unlock and lock your Vault