PreVeil Drive Best Practices

Move Files and Folders using the browser application

• The browser application (preveil.com/app) fully supports moving files and folders and is the most reliable way of moving.
  
  

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• There are more operations and dependencies when moving in the OS file system that lead to slow performance or the occasional error

• If a file cannot be moved to a destination it will not show as an option, in which case an original upload is an alternative

Use the browser application to see progress bars for uploading and downloading files

• The local sync directory does not give progress bars or estimates for sync completion

• When uploading large singular files or several small files use the upload button on the browser app and find an upload queue and progress bar for each file

• When downloading on the browser app you will also find a download progress bar and the file will be downloaded to the PreVeil Downloads folder

Share Folders in Drive Before Populating Them with Data

• When sharing a folder in Drive, if there is data in that folder it will need to be synced up with PreVeil and encrypted before the folder can be shared.

• The amount of time this takes will be dependent on how much data is in the folder.

• If you share the folder before populating it with the data, it only takes a few seconds.

• Any data you then populate into the shared folder will propagate over to those that you’ve shared the folder with.

Flatten Your Folder Structure

• A central idea when migrating a large file collection to Drive is to distribute the files to a set of top-level folders and share them as opposed to populating a single folder and sharing.

• Spreading a large file collection over several top-level folders will make it easier to manage that data on the folder level, and makes for better sync performance.

Share Folder Trees From the Top Level Down

• In Drive, there is functionality known as Expanded Folder Permissions, which allows a user to share different levels of a folder tree with different people and at different permission levels.

• When using this functionality, if the top level folder is going to be shared then you’ll want to share that first, before sharing any of the subfolders beneath.

• If you share a subfolder first and then try to share the top level folder above it later, you will be blocked from doing so due to the fact there is already a shared folder beneath it.