Add and Configure Drives

Click “+” button at lower right side to add drive items. You can also change drive configuration of each added drive item by clicking “CONFIG”.

• Select remote storage type from STORAGE TYPE field and then click “CONNECT” to authenticate remote storage. Available drive item types are as below.

  • Backblaze B2
  • Box
  • Dropbox
  • FTP
  • Google Drive
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • hubiC
  • OneDrive
  • OneDrive for Business
  • S3
  • S3 Compatible
  • SFTP
  • Swift
  • ucloud biz
  • WebDAV
  • Amazon Drive (discontinued)

• “OPTIONS” button allows to set available options values of each storage type.

• After authentication, click “BROWSE” button to browse the remote path.

• Type in the name of the drive item in LABEL category.

• Click “COLOR” button to select the background color of each drive item.

• Select drive letter for each mounted drive in MOUNT category. You may also select drive type, either network drive or local drive.

• AUTO CONNECT OPTIONS

  • No automatic mount : Connects only when user proceeds CONNECT command.
  • Mount on boot : Connects on system boot (Windows only). Note connected drives will be shown to all windows users since it is connected by SYSTEM account.
  • Mount on login : Connects when Bdrive account is logged on after NetDrive Application is executed.

• UPLOAD OPTIONS : This option applies when you upload files using Windows Explorer or macOS Finder

  • Use background uploading : After configuring a file in local cache, uploads files to remote site. Even the file copy is completed in Windows Explorer, it is possible that NetDrive is still uploading the file in background.
  • Use on-the-fly uploading in Explorer : Copies files without using cache. It might be slightly slower than background uploading.

• READ ONLY OPTIONS

  • Writable drive : Connects as writable drives.
  • Read only drive : Connects as read only drives. Create/delete/rename of file or folder is not possible.

• ADVANCED OPTION

  • Always retrieve file list from server : Does not use cache on file list but instead calls for the file list from the server. It might be slight slower in terms of speed.
  • As a removable drive : Connects as removable drive such as USB memory stick.
  • Treat files and folders starting with a dot as hidden : Files and folders with starting dot will not be shown.

• Click “OK” button to finish adding a drive item.