Drive - Manage Files and Folders

Topics in this Section

• Overview
• Upload, Move, and Copy
  • 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.

Upload, Move, and Copy

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.

• Copy:

  • On updates versions of Windows 10 and above, drag and drop files and folders outside of your connector to copy them to another location on your local machine.
  • On earlier Windows versions, drag and drop files and folders outside of your connector to move them. This will delete these files from the cloud as they are moved out of Desktop Connector to the new local file location.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.