Open the folder you selected for syncing during the configuration process. This is just a normal folder, so instead of calling it Sync Folder you should use more regular names. In this example we named it My Projects.
Create a folder named Marketing Campaign inside My Projects.
Create another folder inside My Projects with a name Collaterals.
Place some files into it by copying them from your computer.
Now it’s time to share a folder with a colleague. You can do this in two different ways: directly from the Finder or using your web browser. Follow step 6 to Share content using the Finder or step 7 to Share content using your preferred web browser.
Note: You can also share just a single file as described at the bottom of this article.
If you want to do it right from your desktop, in Finder select the Marketing Campaign folder
Control Click or Right Click on it.
From the context menu, select "Services" and then "Acronis Access: Share Folder"
This will launch a web browser and show you the invite dialog. In the Invite others dialog that appears, enter an email address and an appropriate text message.
If you prefer to use your web browser instead:
Open https://server.com/, where server.com is the Acronis Access server address, and log in using your username and password credentials.
Click on Sync&Share.
Click on the folder you want to share and select Sharing from the sidebar.
In the Sharing lightbox, enter an email address and an appropriate text message.
Select if the invited users should have only read-only access. When enabled, invited users will be able to only download and read documents included in the shared folder.
Select whether the invited users can invite other users to this share.
Select whether the invited users can see the other users that have access to this share.
Select the invitation's language and press Share Folder. An email containing your information and access instructions will be generated and sent to the recipient.
Regardless of the method used to invite a person, the recipient will then receive one or two emails, depending on whether he is an internal (Active Directory) or external user.
For an external user, the first email with subject You have been invited to Acronis Access. contains a link to set a personalized password.
The second email with subject You have been given access to Marketing Campaign contains your message and a link for accessing the shared files.
Once the invited user clicks on the link to access the system (and set his password if needed) you and your colleague will share access over the files in the Marketing Campaign folder.
Make sure you tell your colleague about the Access Desktop Client, so you can synchronize files automatically among your computers.
Note: The maximum path length is different between Mac OS X and Windows which can lead to syncing errors in cross platform deployments. On Windows there is an OS limitation of 260 characters (MAX_PATH) total for the entire path, including the "C:\mysharefolder\" part. So on Windows the max filename length will be 260 - [share folder path length] - 1 (for NULL terminator).
e.g. The user is sharing C:\my_shared_documents and is trying to download a file into C:\my_shared_documents\this_is_a_folder\ the max file name length of that subdirectory would be 260 - 40 - 1 = 219 characters. The Mac OS X limit is 1024 characters.
