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What is Files?
Files is a Web 2.0 collaboration tool in which you can upload files of any type and let other people see and work with them. You can also see and work with other people's files.
It is a convenient way to share files, information, communications, and ideas with other members of your team without sending large files through e-mail. You only need to understand a few concepts to use Files:
- Add files
To add files, you upload them from your computer by clicking the Upload a File button from anywhere in Files.
- Sharing
Files can be private, shared, or public. Private means that only the owner can see and work with it. Shared means that the owner has shared it with specific people, and they can share it with more people. Public means that anyone can read the file.
- Roles
When you share your files with other people you can give them Reader or Editor access to the file. When you share your collections with other people or groups you can give them Reader, Contributor, or Manager access to the collection.
- Recommending and commenting
You can recommend and comment on other people's files.
- Collections
Collections are groups of files. Like files, collections can be private, shared, or public.
- Versions
When you add a file it becomes the first version of the file. When the file is edited and saved that becomes the second version. A third edit creates a third version, and so on. If you have enough access to see a file, you can see its versions. If you have Editor access to a file you can delete versions.
- Tags
Tags are keywords that you assign to files that make the files easier to find later.
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