About FileLink
What is FileLink and how does it work?
A FileLink is an Internet-based link to your Nomadesk files. Instead of attaching large files to your emails and thus jamming up your own or your recipient’s mailbox, you can send an Internet-based link of your file. FileLinks can be accessed by anybody, not just the people you have invited to your Fileserver. You can use FileLink to share any type of file, as long as this file is on your Fileserver.
In Windows Explorer or on myNomadesk.com (your online Nomadesk Dashboard), you right-click the file on your Fileserver which you wish to share with others. In the Mac OS, you do this by Control-clicking this file in the Finder.
You send a FileLink to this file to your recipients.
Your recipients receive an email message from you, sent on your behalf by Nomadesk, containing a web-based link to your file.
People who received your FileLink email can click on the link to download a copy of your file, which is located on Nomadesk’s secured web servers. No installation of Nomadesk is required.
What are the benefits of using FileLink?
You no longer have to send the files by email, so you don’t burden your mail server with large email attachments. This also means that you are no longer restricted by the size limit of your mailbox.
You share confidential information over a secured Nomadesk Fileserver, not through unsecured email.
Sending a FileLink is easy. Anyone can do it, which cannot be said of sending files by FTP where accounts need to be created and complex FTP software needs to be used.
You can easily follow up what happens with the file you share: you can determine how long the file will remain available for downloading, and you can be notified when someone accesses the file.
You can use FileLink to share files with anyone: your recipients don’t need to be members of your Fileserver. They don’t even need to have Nomadesk installed. They just receive an email containing a link to a secured Nomadesk website from which they can safely download your file.