💽 Mount as a drive
Your storage appears in Explorer like an additional hard disk – saving without an upload button.
What it does for you
- You save from Word, Excel or any other program directly to your storage.
- No detour via “upload” and “download”.
- Works like a USB stick that never gets lost.
Who it is for: Everyone who likes to work directly in Explorer or their file manager.
What you need: On Windows the free helper WinFsp (DasDing offers it for download). Included in your account.
You write a letter in Word and want to save it directly to your storage – without first saving it to the desktop and then uploading it. With the mounted drive you simply choose “DasDing” in the save dialog like a hard disk.
How it works
DasDing registers your storage with the operating system as an additional drive: on Windows it gets a drive letter (for example “D:”), on Linux it appears as a folder (for example ~/DasDing). What you save there, DasDing sends straight to the server in the background. What you open, it fetches from the server. The files are not stored twice on your computer.
On Windows this needs a small, widely used helper called WinFsp, which teaches Windows to show such drives.
Setting up
- 🏠 Personal area → 🧰 Tools → card “💽 Mount as a drive”.
- Windows: if WinFsp is missing, click “Download WinFsp”, install it, then “Check again”.
- Choose a drive letter (Windows) or folder (Linux).
- Contents: “Personal area” is right for almost everyone.
- Mount. Optionally “Mount automatically after sign-in” – then the drive is always there.
Good to know
- Changes go to the server immediately. The storage limit and virus scan apply as with uploads.
- Without internet the drive can't be reached – unlike sync, which works with files on your computer.
- Very large files or thousands of small files are often faster via ⇪ Upload files.
- Disconnect before shutting down isn't necessary, but clean.
Tip
the password vault and VeraCrypt containers have their own, safer way in DasDing – don't open them via the drive, but as described in Password vault and Encrypted containers.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.