What a room is

A room is a small page for one project, at one unguessable link, under your name. It holds what you put in it and nothing else: not the folder above it, not the rest of your workspace, not your other clients. The person you send it to opens the link and is in. There is no account to create, no invitation to accept and no app to install.

Opening one#

1. 1

   Press New room and name it

   The name is what the client sees at the top of the page, so name it after the project rather than after the file.

2. 2

   Decide the terms

   An expiry date, a password, and whether guests may upload. All three are optional and all three can be changed afterwards.

3. 3

   Add files from your drive

   Add from drive puts existing files in the room. They stay where they are in your workspace: the room points at them rather than copying them.

4. 4

   Send the link

   Copy it, or let the client scan the code beside it. That link is the only way in.

What the client sees#

One page: the room's name, your name under it, your note if you wrote one, and the files, each with a button to open it and a button to download it. If you allowed uploads there is a drop area under them, and a field where they can put their name on what they send. If you set a password, none of that appears until they type it.

What they do not see is everything else. A room is not a window into a folder: it holds the files you put in it, one by one, and nothing that happens to sit next to them in your workspace.

How many rooms you can have at once#

The limit is on rooms that are active, meaning their link still works. Archive one and it stops counting immediately, which is how you get a slot back without deleting anything.

What goes in a room, and where it lives#

• Files you add from your drive. They stay in your workspace. Removing a file from the room takes it off the page and leaves the file untouched.
• Files a guest uploads, when you allow it. Those land in your workspace under Rooms/ and then the room's name, and they count towards your storage, not the guest's. See Working with guests.
• A short note at the top of the page, if you write one. It is the place for the sentence a client actually needs: what this is, and what you want back.

Closing one#

• An expiry date. On that day the room closes on its own and the link stops working.
• Archive. Ends it now. The link dies, the files stay in your drive, and the room stays readable to you.
• Rotate link. Mints a new link and kills the old one. This is what to do when a link ends up somewhere it should not be.
• Delete. Removes the room permanently. Your files stay in your drive.