Publish Files/Folders and Get Static Publish URLs
By default, files in your DriveHQ account are secure and private. You cannot link your files from other websites / web pages. Sharing a folder does not create static links to your files / folders.
To create static links, you must publish your files / folders.
Please note free members are not allowed to publish files / folders. True members can publish files and folders, however, they cannot publish
any executable files or compressed files. A paid member or a sub-user of a paid group account can publish any files and folders. Published URLs are actively monitored.
Publishing of any illegal contents may result in your account being disabled immediately without warning.
- Navigate through the publishes you have created
- Publish a remote folder
- Publish a local folder
- Edit a Publish
- Delete a Publish
- Get the Publish URLs
- Navigate through the publishes you have created
- Click the dropdown button next to the address bar in the cloud pane, and then select "DriveHQ Control Panel" -> "Manage My Publishes";
- or -
Click "Tools" in the top menu, then click "Manage My Publishes";
- To access a published folder, click its share folder (URL);
-or-
Right click a share name, and select "Open Share Folder" in the popup menu;
- Click on
to go to the folder visited previously;
- Click on
to go to the folder visited next;
- Click on
to go to the parent folder.
- Publish a cloud folder
- Select a cloud file or folder to publish, click
;
-or-
Right-click the file or folder name, and click Publish in the popup menu;
- In the "Publish a cloud folder" screen, enter the following required info:
By default, the "Publish Name" is the same as the folder name. You can change the "Publish Name" and "Publish Description", and select a permission level from the following levels:
- View File List/Icon only
- Read/Download File only
Read the Membership Agreement and check "Yes, I agree".
- Click OK, and then the folder or file is published. The following dialog will be displayed:
You can click Copy URL to copy the folder’s static publish URL to the clipboard, then paste it in to other applications such as Notepad, MS Word, or any HTML editor.
Click Cancel to close the dialog.
- Publish a local folder
- Select the local file and folder to publish, click ;
- or -
Right click the file or folder name, and select Publish in the popup menu;
- The "Setup Publish" screen will show up. Select a destination cloud folder under which you want the published folder to be located, or create a new cloud folder, then click on Next;
- Then enter the required information for the new Publish in the following screen:
- Click OK, the local file or folder will be uploaded to the cloud and then Published.
- Edit a Publish
- In the cloud Pane, navigate to the "Manage My Publishes" screen;
- Double click the Publish name that you want to edit;
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Select a Publish, and click 
;
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Right click the Publish name, and click "Properties" in the popup menu;
- The "Edit Publish" page will pop up. This page is similar to the "Publish a cloud folder" page;
- Click "Save" after you finish the modifications.
- Delete a Publish
- In the "Manage My Publishes" screen, select the Publish to delete;
- Click the
button or select Delete from the right-click popup menu;
- The system will pop up a confirmation dialog box. Select Yes to delete the Publish, or select No to cancel this operation.
- Get the Static Publish URLs
You can efficiently get the static publish URLs of multiple files and folders. Just go to any published folder, select files or folders in it, then right-click and select "Show Publish URLs". It will display a new dialog as follows:
To get the publish URLs, please right-click the selected folders or files, then click "Show Publish URL". It will pop up a dialog as shown below:
You can copy the publish URLs into your Windows clipboard and paste them into other applications, such as Notepad, MS Word or any HTML editors.
Publish URLs have the following format:
https://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/OWNER_USERNAME/PUBLISH_NAME/FILENAME
If you want to hide your username and folder name, you can click "Show Safe URL(s)". It will change the Publish URLs into a new format as shown below:
The safe Publish URLs hide the username, publish name, folder name and filename info. So the URL is more secure; moreover, safe URLs always work as they do not have any special characters that could affect the validity of a URL.
A regular Publish URL may not work if it has special characters in the folder or file name.
Please note: If other users visit your published (or shared) folder, they will use your account's download bytes. If you expect a lot of users will access your published folder, please make sure your account has enough download bytes.
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