📖 Guides

All guides from the program, sorted by topic. Each guide says at the top who it is for.

Basics

🚀 First steps – What to set up in your first 15 minutes – in the right order.
🏢 Who is behind DasDing? – Who offers the program, what it costs, where your data is stored and what we can see – openly and completely.
✨ DasDing at a glance – A program for your computer that connects your own storage in Switzerland with many useful tools.
🛡 Security: how to protect yourself – The five things that really make a difference – doable without technical knowledge.
🔑 Signing in & password – Signing in, staying signed in, changing your password, storing your e-mail and what to do if the password is gone.
🔐 Two-factor sign-in – A second key on your phone: without it nobody gets into your account, not even with your password.
📱 DasDing on your phone (Android) – The Android app: your files on the go, phone photos backed up automatically, chat and support.
⚙ Settings & updates – Where downloads end up, how fast things download and how DasDing stays up to date.

🏠 Personal area – Your own storage space on our server in Switzerland – like a safe-deposit box you can open from anywhere.
⇄ Back up folders automatically – Folders on your computer are continuously copied to your storage by themselves – a backup you never forget.
💻 Computer backup – Your whole system backed up – in the cloud against failure and theft, and locally as a quick undo button.
💽 Mount as a drive – Your storage appears in Explorer like an additional hard disk – saving without an upload button.
☁ Cloud connections – Bring files from Dropbox, OneDrive or Nextcloud to DasDing – or back – without downloading them first.
🎬 Play audio and video – Play your own videos, music and audiobooks from your storage directly in the program – without downloading them.
💾 Storage & plan – What costs money, what doesn't, how to get more space and how to cancel.
🖼 View pictures – Look at photos right in the program – without downloading them first.
📄 Office: PDF, spreadsheets, text – Open and edit PDFs, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents right in the program.

🔐 Password vault – All your passwords in one encrypted file – you only need to remember a single one.
🆘 Emergency sheet – Allergies, medications and emergency contacts for paramedics and helpers – within reach on your phone with one tap on “NOTFALL”.
🔒 Encrypted containers (VeraCrypt) – A safe for confidential files: from the outside an unreadable file, opened with a password a normal drive.

📦 Install software safely – Around 300 well-known free programs – downloaded directly from the vendor, verified, and installed and kept up to date with one click.
🔌 ISO downloader & USB boot stick – Download Windows or Linux verified and build a USB stick from it that the computer can start from.
🔗 Integrations – Use services like Nextcloud in a separate window – sign in once, then you're in with one click.
📧 Mail – Read and answer your existing mail accounts right in the program – credentials only in your vault.

🖥 SSH console & keys – Operate your own Linux servers remotely – right in the program, with a key instead of a password, and the session is kept.
☁ My container – Your own small Linux computer in our data centre – for learning to program, trying things out and developing.
📝 Notes – A notepad in the SSH tab that is the same on all devices – encrypted if you like.
🤖 AI assistant – A helper in the SSH tab that answers questions, explains error messages and suggests commands – you run them yourself.

💬 Chat – Your own messenger on our server in Switzerland – for family, friends and support, on the PC and the phone.
🤝 Remote help – Show someone your screen and get help – or help others yourself, even people without DasDing.
🎁 Refer a friend – Recommend DasDing – if someone books a plan with your code, you both get extra storage.
🛟 Support – Three ways to reach us – e-mail, chat or ticket – and what you can check beforehand.