☁ Cloud connections
Bring files from Dropbox, OneDrive or Nextcloud to DasDing – or back – without downloading them first.
What it does for you
- You move from Dropbox or OneDrive to DasDing without downloading and re-uploading everything by hand.
- Your data is then in Switzerland instead of with a US corporation.
- You can also push files in the other direction when you need them there.
Who it is for: Everyone who still has files at Dropbox, OneDrive or a Nextcloud.
What you need: Your account with the other service. Included in your DasDing account.
Over the years a lot piles up: photos at OneDrive, old projects at Dropbox, club documents in a Nextcloud. Downloading everything and uploading it again takes days and fills the hard disk. With cloud connections, DasDing moves the files directly from there into your storage.
How it works
You allow DasDing once to access your account at the other service. To do so you sign in with the service itself (in the browser) – DasDing never sees your password there, it only gets a permission that you can revoke at any time. After that DasDing shows both sides next to each other, and you move files back and forth.
Connecting
- 🏠 Personal area → 🧰 Tools → “☁ Cloud connections” → ＋ Add connection.
- Choose the service and give the connection a name (for example “My Dropbox”).
- Dropbox / OneDrive: the browser opens. Sign in to the service there and allow DasDing access.
- Nextcloud: enter the address, user name and an app password. You create the app password in Nextcloud under Settings → Security → “Create new app password”. That way you never pass on your real Nextcloud password.
- Connect.
With OneDrive for business or school accounts there are sometimes several storages (for example SharePoint libraries). With 💽 Choose drive you decide which one is connected.
Transferring files
Transfer files opens two columns: on the left DasDing, on the right the other service. Select files and transfer them with → (to DasDing) or ← (to the other service). With the tick “move instead of copy” the source is deleted afterwards – handy when moving house.
Safe
the credentials for the other services are stored encrypted. You can remove the connection at any time and revoke DasDing's access at the service itself (at Dropbox and Microsoft in the account settings under “Connected apps”).
Does the connection stay, i.e. is it synchronised automatically?
No, only what you select yourself is transferred. For automatically backing up folders on your computer there is sync.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.