Blog
Practical guides on keeping your files safe, organised and easy to share.
Deleting a file in cloud storage is rarely final. Here is how Trash works, how to find and restore what you lost, and how to avoid the mistakes that make it unrecoverable.
A password alone is not enough to protect years of files. Two-factor authentication takes a few minutes to set up and stops the most common way accounts get taken over.
Freelancers juggle many clients' files at once and have nobody else to blame when something goes missing. A simple system for storing, delivering and closing out client work.
Shared folders work for two people. For a team, you need a workspace: a place the files belong to the group, with roles that match how people actually work.
Pay once or pay every year? Lifetime storage deals are popular and sometimes excellent, but the maths and the risks are not obvious. Here is how to think it through.
Multi-gigabyte video uploads fail for predictable reasons. Here is how to prepare files, keep the upload alive, check the result and share it afterwards.
Most folder systems collapse within months. The ones that last share a few boring principles. Here they are, with structures you can copy for personal, freelance and team use.
A share link that anyone can open forever is a liability. Two settings, a password and an expiry date, fix most of the problem and take almost no effort.
Cloud storage gives you two ways to share: a link anyone can open, or an invitation to a named person. They solve different problems. Here is how to choose.
Three copies, two kinds of storage, one somewhere else. The oldest rule in backup, explained for people with a laptop and a phone rather than a server room.
Where your files are physically stored affects speed, privacy law and who can be compelled to hand them over. Here is how to choose a region without a law degree.
A practical walkthrough of your first hour with a new cloud storage account: picking a region, uploading, organising, sharing and locking the account down.
Secure cloud storage in the region you choose. Start with 1 GB free, no credit card required.
