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Soonr’s Cloud Drive feature removes the mystery of the “cloud” and online storage folders. You can easy interact with the online folders as if they were local.

Collaboration becomes effortless as you and your team will just use the programs you already know in the same way as before. *Please note that some of the features described here only come with a paid Soonr account, but there’s a 30 day free trial for all paid accounts!

What does Soonr Cloud Drive provide?

• Easily manage your online storage folders just like you would a local harddrive. All the same tools work so there’s nothing new to learn.
• Directly edit files from the cloud using the powerful client programs you are used to, but from any computer where you have the client programs installed! If editing from a remote computer, all changes will be automatically pushed to the original location.
• Collaboration effortlessly. All the edits made with Cloud Drive in a Project folder inherits the added web services of Soonr. Notifications to the team, view, share, print, fax, search, it’s all included.

Soonr Cloud Drive is an immensely powerful feature. It turns your online project workspaces into a great collaboration tool with nothing new to learn!

Managing Online Storage Folders:
Actually, You already know how to do this since it’s integrated with the operating system. In the example below, you can see that cloud drive T: is set up on the computer named “VAIOZ-SERIES”. The File Explorer is on the left, and you can see how it directly maps to the Soonr account in the Web Browser. All your computers and projects will appear in File Explorer as if they were local.

Editing with Cloud Drive:
When you are looking at the files in a folder, you can use the action menu and select “Edit with Cloud Drive“. This will automatically launch the application on your computer and open the file from the online folder. You can edit using the native application and when you save, it’ll automatically save back into the online folder and push the changed file to its original location. Also in the background, the version control will make a snapshot of the older file. All this and you don’t have change anything you do today. You can edit from a remote computer and still maintain all changes on the original computer.

Effortless Collaboration:
Imagine being able to edit your files on your desktop just as you do today, except that when you save them, they are automatically saved online, made viewable by over 817 mobile devices, and available even when your computer is offline! Your team members will automatically be notified when you make changes and if they leave comments on the file, you will be notified by email and even SMS if you prefer.

Finally, any and all changes are automatically version controlled. You get all these benefits working on files just like you do today on your local machine.

Let’s take a look at how to set up Soonr Cloud Drive.

Set up Soonr Cloud Drive:

Your Soonr desktop software has a tab called Cloud Drive. On this tab you can define what drive letter you want to assign to the drive, the default is “T:”. You can can also control whether it’s automatically activated when connected to your Soonr service. There’s a button where you can launch Cloud Drive directly from the agent.

For those more technically curious, refer to this FAQ: Map a Drive Letter

You can have all this by getting yourself a premium Soonr account! If you already have one, add some users to your team and extend all the benefits of Soonr to them. If you don’t, why not try the 30 day free trial for the premium accounts. Get more Soonr!