Drive - Manage Files and Folders

Topics in this Section

Overview
Upload and Move
- Files with references
Open and Download
Delete
- Delete in Work Offline Mode
Free Up Space
Other Right-Click Commands

Overview

The latest release of Desktop Connector includes various options to manage your file and folders in your Autodesk Drive connector subject to your folder permissions.

Important: Ensure that Desktop Connector is running before you make changes to files and folder in the connector. This will help avoid potential syncing issues and conflicts.

Upload and Move

Drag and drop actions are supported in your connector.

Upload: Drag a file or folder into your connector to upload and sync it to your cloud data source.

Important:

You can upload files that are a maximum of 6 GB.

Note: Windows® users must select a project file when adding Inventor files. See Configure Inventor Project Library Paths for more information about customizing your Inventor Project file.

Move: Drag and drop files and folders within your connector to move them.

Files with references

Drag a design file into your connector will upload any gathered referenced files also.

You can check the referenced files and related data before upload by adding them to Reference Explorer tool.

Open and Download

Double click a file to open. This will also make a one-time download of the file to your connector.

Note: When opening Inventor files, the default .ipj for the project is used.

Delete

Right-click a file or folder and select Delete to delete the relevant file or folder from your connector and the cloud data source as well.

If you only want to delete files from your connector, right-click and use Free up space instead.

Note: You can't delete project-level folders.

Delete in Work Offline Mode

Files deleted in Work Offline mode are only removed from the connector. The file or folder deletion will not sync and they will remain in the cloud data source.

Right-click on the file or folder that you want to remove from your connector and select Delete Local. The file or folder is removed from your local connector but remains in the data source.

Free Up Space

If disk space is a concern, the local copies of files can be deleted from the connector using the right-click Free Up Space command on a file or folder.

Note: The affected files must not be open in an application or still processing in Pending Actions.

File: The downloaded file will be removed locally.
Folder: All the files in the folder will be removed locally.

For example, you may want to retain a project's folder and file structure on your connector but remove all downloaded files. You can select the top level folder and use Free Up Space to remove all the project files locally.

Note: This command only removes the local copy of each file. The files will still be available in the cloud data source. To remove files permanently from both disk and cloud data source, use the right-click Delete command instead.

Other Right-Click Commands

The right-click a file or folder to view all the available commands:

Open: Opens the file or folder.
Sync: Manually syncs your file or folder to the latest version in the cloud data source.
Free Up Space: See the Free Up Space section above.
View Online: Navigates to a file's location directly in the Drive data source.
Copy Link: Copies a link to the file or folder in the cloud data source.
Export: Export a file to your local drive with the Export command.

Note: File references are also exported. For Inventor files, the default .ipj for the project is used.
Delete: Deletes the local file or folder only. See the Delete section above for more detail.
Rename: Renames the file you have selected.

Note:

Project-level folders must be renamed through the cloud data source.