Upload
Permission requirements
- Vault Files and Directories
- Create files (needed to upload)
- Share their files (also needed to upload)
- View their directories and their groups' directories
- Add items to directories
- Upload file content (needed to upload)
For a comprehensive overview of all data ingress methods (browser upload, File Transfer Hub, inboxes, and SFTP), see Data Ingress and Egress.
Upload a File
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- Upload Button
- File Transfer Hub
- Go to the Vault icon in the top left panel.
- Click the My Files section on the left panel.
- Click the Upload Files button at the top of the left panel.
- Select Files.
- In the new window, locate the local files to upload.
- Click Open.
- In the prompt, click Upload.
- Go to the Vault icon in the top left panel.
- In the left panel, click the Transfer files between My Vault and My Computer button next to My Computer.
- In the new window, select the files from the local access directory in the right panel.
- Drag and drop the files into the Vault in the left panel.
- In the prompt, click Upload.
- Click the close button in the top left corner of the window.
You cannot upload files or directories from your local machine into your Vault's trash.
You can exit the file transfer window while uploading large files into your Vault.
Upload a Directory
- Upload Button
- File Transfer Hub
- Go to the Vault icon in the top left panel.
- Click the My Files section on the left panel.
- Click the Upload Files button at the top of the left panel.
- Select Directories.
- In the new window, locate the local directory to upload.
- Click Upload.
- In the new pop-up, click Upload to confirm.
- In the prompt, preview the directory structure.
- Click Upload.
- Go to the Vault icon in the top left panel.
- In the left panel, click the Transfer files between My Vault and My Computer button next to My Computer.
- In the new window, select the directory from the local access directory in the right panel.
- Drag and drop the directory into the Vault in the left panel.
- In the prompt, click Upload.
- Click the close button in the top left corner of the window.
Allow multiple uploads in your browser if you perform this action frequently.
Upload by Drag and Drop
You can drag files or folders from your computer's desktop or file manager and drop them on the file list, on a folder row in the file list, or on My Files, a folder, a group's folder or an inbox folder in the tree. While you drag, the box next to the pointer reads "Upload item(s)". After the drop, the same confirmation opens as for the Upload Files button.
Where You Can Upload
The Upload Files button shows the tooltip "Upload..." where uploads are allowed, and reads Cannot upload here everywhere else. Uploads are allowed in My Files, in your own folders and inbox folders, and in a group's folder when the group gives you Add Directory Entries. They are not allowed on Group Directories or Inboxes themselves, or in Shared With Me, Shared By Me, Downloads or Trash.
What Happens During an Upload
- Confirmation: the prompt is titled "Upload name (size) to the Vault?" for one file, or "Upload n files (totaling size) to the Vault?" for several, and shows a preview of what will be uploaded.
- Storage check: before you confirm, tiCrypt compares the upload with the storage your teams allow you. If it does not fit, the prompt shows a notice that begins "Upload not allowed: Available space is" and gives the space available and the space needed, and Upload is disabled. The space available is the largest allowance among your teams, from the team's and your own Vault and total storage quotas, minus what your VM drives already use. If you belong to no team, you have no allowance and cannot upload. Ask your team or project administrator for more space.
- Group folders: uploading into a group's folder asks Share files? with the text "Files uploaded to a group folder are shared permanently with all members of the group." Click Share to go ahead. Group shares have no expiration or restrictions.
- Project tag: uploaded files and folders take the project tag of the folder you upload into. See Change Project.
- Name collisions: an upload never overwrites a file. If the folder already holds an item with the same name, the new one is renamed, for example "report (1).pdf".
- Progress: each row being uploaded shows a pie-shaped progress indicator, and the task tray shows an Upload files task. Uploads, copies and deletes run one at a time, so a new upload shows "Waiting for previous file operation to finish" until the previous one ends.
Upload a File from the Cloud
You cannot upload files from the cloud, but you can transfer files from the cloud.
View more in Transfer.
Upload a File from a Virtual Machine Access Directory
You cannot upload files from a virtual machine access directory, but you can transfer files from a virtual machine access directory.
View more in Transfer.
Preserve Directory Structure When Uploading
The tiCrypt upload function preserves the local directory structure.
If you can upload files but cannot create directories in the destination, the menu item reads Directories (flat). The files inside the folders you choose are then uploaded straight into the destination folder, without their subfolders.
Set up the directory structure before the upload.
Set Permissions for Files and Directories Upload
- Log in to your admin account.
- Go to the Management icon in the top left panel.
- Select the Users section.
- Select Users.
- Find and select the user you wish to delegate upload permissions to.
- Click the Open full menu three-dot button in the top right panel.
- Select Open overlay.
- In the overlay, select Manual permission management in the left panel.
- Go to the Vault Files and Directories section.
- Check Upload file content (needed to upload).
- Click Save in the top right panel.
By default, all users have upload access. Only admins should change upload permissions, and only to restrict access for specific users as required by policy.