Поширені запитання

Щоб створити нове сховище, натисніть кнопку +:

Потім виберіть "Створити сховище ":

…і назвіть його:

Ви також можете захистити свій репозиторій локальним паролем або біометричними даними (якщо вони налаштовані на вашому пристрої).

• Use the cache server - see section Privacy, Security and Cache Server to learn more.

• Protect your repository with a local password - see section Passwords and Biometrics to learn more.

• Protect your repository with biometrics. This option exists only on devices that have biometrics protection set up - see section Passwords and Biometrics to learn more.)

Це доволі просто. Натисніть на назву сховища. Ви потрапите на екран вмісту сховища, де ви побачите кнопку "Плюс":

Відкриється невелике вікно, де ви зможете вибрати, чи створити папку для ваших файлів у цьому сховищі, чи додати до неї файли з вашого пристрою або зовнішнього накопичувача (наприклад, флешки або SD-карти):

Там ви можете вирішити створити нову папку:

Або ви можете імпортувати файли в одну з наявних папок.

Імпортувати сховище означає, що ви хочете відтворити на своєму пристрої сховище, до якого вам надав доступ ваш колега.
Ви починаєте з тієї ж кнопки +, а потім обираєте "Імпортувати ":

Натиснувши на кнопку Імпортувати сховище, ви потрапите на ось цей екран:

Тут у вас є два варіанти - ви можете відсканувати QR-код, згенерований вашим колегою, або імпортувати посилання, надіслане вам вашим колегою (електронною поштою, будь-яким застосунком для обміну повідомленнями тощо). Посилання виглядає ось так:

Після того, як ви скопіюєте та вставите посилання, отримане від колег, у відповідне поле, або відскануєте QR-код сховища, яке хочете імпортувати, імпортоване сховище з'явиться на вашому екрані, а через деякий час весь його вміст буде імпортовано на ваш пристрій. Тепер ви маєте на своєму пристрої копію сховища, яким поділився з вами ваш колега.

Here you can make the same selections as when creating a repository. Tapping on the Import button will complete the process of importing a repository.

The imported repository will appear on your screen and after a short while all its content will be imported into your device.  In other words, the Ouisync repositories on your devices will sync their data with the Ouisync repositories on your peer’s device. This will happen automatically, without the need for your to perform any further action.

The first thing to do is to verify that your device is connected with the peer whose repository you have imported.

To do do that, please go to the app Settings, and then scroll down to the Peers section. Learn more about peers and networking.

Once you verify that your device is connected to your peer's device, data in your respective repositories will sync automatically.

As a user, you don't need to perform any additional action to make the syncing start.

You can monitor the speed of data synchronisation by viewing the upload and dowload speeds to the right of the repository name

or you can go to Repository Settings screen and view the percentage of data synced (upper right hand corner).

If your devices are connected to each other, every time you change the content of the shared repository, or your peer does, your respective repositories will automatically sync with each other. When syncing is complete, you and your peer will have identical data in your respective repositories.

During the syncing, you will see these symbols next to the repository name.

Once the syncing is complete, you will see the green check icon next to the repository name. This means that you now have on your device the exact copy of the repository that your peer has shared with you.

Yes. You can do that by going to repository settings screen and tapping on the Delete button.

When you delete a repository on your device, this deletion is not propagated to your peer’s devices – they will still have all their repositories.

If you delete a repository that you have not shared with any other device or peer, then your Ouisync data is deleted.

You can create a new repository and upload the same files into it - if you have them somewhere else on your devices.

If your files have only been store in a Ouisync repository whihc you did not share with anyone, and you delete that repository, your data will be lost.

If you delete a repository that you have already shared with another device or peer, you can re-import it from them back into your primary device.

If you shared a repository with write permissions, your peers can generate a link and send it back to you with the same permissions.

If you created a repository and you shared it with a read permissions, your peers can generate only a read link to send back to you.

The kind of access a user can have is encoded in the link.

Example Usecase

A teacher creates a Ouisync repository, uploads the study material into it and shares it with their students in read only mode.

Then a small accident happens and the the teacher's repository gets deleted. The teacher now cannot share new study material with their students.

Students are able to share links with their teacher, but… only with read access. The teacher can import the repository and the data will sync with their students' repositories. The teacher, having received the read access token from their student, also has only read access. In this situation, nobody has a write access to the repository – everybody can read it, but nobody can edit it.

However, If that teacher generates a write token prior to deleting the repository, and stores it somewhere safely, then they are able to re-import the same repository using that token, even after they deleted it on their device.

Це можна зробити, натиснувши три вертикальні крапки поруч з назвою сховища, що відкриє вікно налаштувань для цього сховища, а потім натиснувши символ "Поділитися":

This will open a small window on the bottom part of your screen.

Here you need to decide which permission (or access mode) to give to your peers and whether you want to share the repository using the link or the QR code.

When you share a repository with your peers, you decide if you want to give them the write, read or blind permission to your repository. When you import a repository from your peers, they decide what type of access they will give you.

ЗАПИС

Якщо ви хочете, щоб ваші колеги могли додавати файли, видаляти їх, перейменовувати або переміщувати у сховищі, до якого ви надали їм доступ, вам потрібно надати їм доступ до вашого сховища з дозволом на запис.

Приклад використання цього рівня дозволів: поширення фотографій з друзями та родиною або спільна робота над проектом..

ЧИТАННЯ

Якщо ви хочете, щоб ваші колеги могли лише читати вміст репозиторію, виберіть Дозволи на читання. Це означає, що вони зможуть відкривати файли і читати їх, але не зможуть додавати нові файли до вашого спільного репозиторію, а також переміщувати або видаляти будь-які файли з нього.

Прикладом використання може бути коли ви хочете поділитися інформацією про подію або новини, або, можливо, про певні продукти, або, можливо, ви вчитель, який ділиться певним контентом зі своїми учнями, тощо. У всіх цих випадках ви хочете, щоб одержувачі могли прочитати вміст, але не змінювати його..

НАОСЛІП

Цей рівень дозволів може бути корисним, коли ви хочете безпечно зберігати ваш репозиторій як резервну копію. Це означає, що людина або пристрій, якому ви надали доступ до вашого сховища "наосліп", не зможе відкрити файли, щоб прочитати їх, або внести до них будь-які зміни. Таким чином, ви можете безпечно зберігати свої дані, наприклад, на комп'ютері друга.

Here you need to decide if you want to share a repository using a link or QR code.

If the peer (or device) with whom you want to share a repository is nearby, you can generate the QR code for them to scan. After that, they need to tap on the Import button.

This action will import a copy of your repository into your peer's device, including all the files and folders within it.

If your peer is not nearby, you can share your repositories by generating a link.

The Copy link button will copy the generated link which you can paste into a message and securely send to your peers.

The Share link button will offer you a choice of apps you can use to send the link.

Note: it is important to send links securely because anybody who has a link will be able to access the files in your repository.

When they receive the link, your peers will need to go to the app home page, and then tap the plus button to start the Import repository process. They will need to copy and paste the link into the provided field and proceed with the repository import.

If a peer receives a link via a messaging app on their Android smartphone, the link will be tappable. When tapped, it will open the import repository screen, where the repository name will be prefilled but can be changed by the peer. Tapping on the Import button will complete the process.

Так, вони можуть генерувати посилання токенів з тими самими дозволами, які вони мали в оригінальному посиланні токена, отриманому від вас, або з меншими дозволами.

Це означає, що якщо людина отримала токен-посилання для імпорту репозиторію з правами ЗАПИС, вона може створити таке саме посилання, щоб поділитися тим самим репозиторієм з іншими людьми, або ж вона може створити посилання на той самий репозиторій, але з меншими правами (ЧИТАННЯ або НАОСЛІП).

Якщо вони імпортували _репозиторій з правами лише на ЧИТАННЯ, то вони можуть надавати доступ до нього іншим як ЧИТАННЯ або НАОСЛІП. Якщо вони імпортували ваше сховище як НАОСЛІП, вони зможуть ділитися ним лише як НАОСЛІП.

This is similar to what happens when you send somebody an email - they can forward that email to other people.

Безплатне використання

Щоб ділитися файлами за допомогою Dropbox, вам потрібно створити обліковий запис Dropbox. Для цього потрібно вказати своє ім'я, електронну пошту та кредитну картку. Це також вимагає оплати.

Ouisync - це повністю безплатне програмне забезпечення з відкритим кодом. Щоб ділитися файлами за допомогою Ouisync, вам потрібно лише встановити програму. І все. Ніяких платежів не потрібно.

Анонімність

Ouisync не вимагає створення облікових записів користувачів. З Ouisync ви просто встановлюєте застосунок і користуєтеся ним. Всі користувачі повністю анонімні.

Ouisync - це P2P рішення

Це означає, що успішне використання Ouisync не залежить від будь-якого центрального сервера. Ouisync використовує децентралізовану однорангову мережу, що робить його ефективним застосунком для обміну файлами навіть у ситуаціях, коли відомі файлообмінники (такі як Dropbox або Google Drive) стають недоступними.

To discover peers on the internet, Ouisync app uses Bittorrent DHT and the process of Peer exchange.

Because there is no central server to handle requests for data upload or download, peers within the DHT will exchange the IP addresses of the peers they know about.

Here’s a nice article about how this usually happens The BitTorrent DHT and Decentralized Content Sharing.

Through these processes, your IP address may become known wthin the Bittorrent DHT network. However, only the peers who possess the Ouisync link that you shared or that other peers shared with you, will be able to connect to your device and share files with you.

To check if your devices are connected to any peers, you can go to the app settings, section Peers.

The small number under the word Peers (3 in this image) represents the number of peer devices currently connected to your device.

Those peers are able to sync data with your Ouisync repositories. Each peer is able to sync data only with the repositories you shared with them.

Example: you might have 2 repositories - one you shared with 2 friends, and one that you shared only with your work computer.

Your friends won’t be able to sync data with the repository that you ony shared with your work computer. They are able to sync data only with repository that they imported after you shared it with them.

Tapping on Peers opens the Peers screen which displays the list of Peers your device is connected to, their IP addresses and their unique runtime IDs.

RuntimeID is an ID that the Ouisync app generates, and IP address is assigned to you by your internet service provider (or sometimes router).

If these settings are switched off, Ouisync app relies on Local discovery protocol to find peers within your local wi-fi network or use UPnP to connect to other devices.

UPnP is a service that allows devices on the same local network to discover each other and automatically connect. This is how smart devices you may have at home connect to routers or each other.

Some examples of UPnP devices are printers, gaming consoles, WiFi devices, IP cameras, mobile devices, and… your Ouisync app.

These settings can also be switched off.

If these settings are OFF, your Ouisync app will try to connect to your peers via internet (using the BitTorrentDHT and Peer exchange protocols.

If you have switched all of the network settings (BitTorrentDHt, Peer Exchange, Local Discovery and the UPnP off) you can try to connect directly to your peer's device, using their IP address.

The following chapter will guide you through the steps you need to perform to achieve this.

Although this is possible in some cases, we cannot guarantee that you will always be able to do so.

To try to establish direct device-to-device connection using Ouisync app, please do the following:

• Go to App Settings, and find the Peers item on that screen and tap on it. In the upper right corner of the Peers screen you will see this button

• Tapping on it will open the User provided peers screen.

• Tapping on the plus button available on that screen will open a small window where you can enter your peer’s IP address and port numbers directly.
• Your peer needs to do the same on their device at approximately the same time. You both need to type each other’s IP address and port number in the fields provided.

Once done, you can share Ouisync repositories with that peer.

To do this, you send them the links or QR codes in the usual way and they import those links or scan the QR codes also in the usual way. You will then see each other’s IP address in the Peers screen, in the status connected, and underneath it a small label like this.

If you follow these steps, the DHT will not be aware that you have shared a Ouhttps://github.com/IvanaBlzvc/IvanaBlzvc.github.io/edit/main/i18n/en.jsonisync repository with a peer and it will not exchange your IP address with other peers present in the DHT lookup system.

Note: If you have previously used Ouisync or other applications that rely on BitTorrent DHT and Peer Exchange for peer discovery and data exchange (which P2P applications often do),then your IP address may be ‘remembered’ by the DHT for awhile even after you stop using those applications. This means that If you initially share your Ouisync repositories via internet, and you have the BitTorrent DHT ON, DHT may remember that IP address for awhile even if you then switch the BitTorrent DHT setting off and only share your Ouisync within your local network, or directly to a peer’s IP address. This ‘remembering’ is a normal feature of the BitTorrent DHT design to speed the peer discovery within the P2P applications, and if your IP address becomes inactive within the DHT (ie you are not using any applications that rely on it), eventually the DHT will ‘forget’ your IP address and drop it from its lookup tables.

The ability of your device to connect directly to your peer’s device via their IP address depends on many things outside the Ouisync app’s control. This could be your Internet Service provider, your device’s NAT settings, firewall settings, your router and so on. Depending on these factors, direct device-to-device connection sometimes may not be possible.

Connectivity is best when your NAT type is Endpoint Independent (this is usually set by your Internet Service Provider and, as a user, you cannot change it).

Your IP address and your port number are available on your Ouisync app Settings screen. Please look up the External IPv4 (or IPv6) entry. Underneath it you will see both your IP address and the port number.

When you want to add a peer manually, these are the numbers you need to enter into the Add peer window.

Yes. We test the Ouisync app using VPNs and are able to sync data between devices that use VPNs and between those ones and the ones that don’t use them.

However, we cannot guarantee that Ouisync app will work with absolutely every VPN solution out there.

In future releases, to further increase the user’s privacy and security, we will endeavour to further annonymise the user’s IP addresses for users who don’t regularly use the VPNs.

This paper provides more details about inner workings of the Ouisync app. We hope you find it informative.

All data that you place within the Ouisync repositories is encrypted by the app. As a user you do not need to do anything to encrypt your data, the app does it for you.

The fact that your Ouisync data is encrypted means that only people who possess the read or write link can access the Ouisync repositories.

У ситуаціях з обмеженим доступом до інтернету вам потрібно буде переконатися, що деякі засоби підключення до інших пристроїв все ще існують.

Це може бути сигнал WiFi, доступний для всіх пристроїв, які хочуть спільно використовувати Ouisync репозиторії, або це може бути інтранет, локальна мережа або подібні технології.

Наразі сховищами не можна ділитися через Bluetooth. Цю можливість заплановано на майбутні релізи.

To install Ouisync on your Windows machine, please go to the Microsoft App Store, type 'Ouisync' in the search box and click on the Download button.

After that, in your Downloads folder, you will see the Ouisync installer.

Once you run the installer, this screen will keep you informed about the installation steps that need to be performed.

Once the installer runs successfully, the Ouisync app will start automatically. You can also launch it from the Start Menu.

That’s it - you’ve got the Ouisync app!

Upon first launching Ouisync, you will see this popup:

So what is Dokan for?

After you start Ouisync on Windows for the first time, but before you install the Dokan library, take a look at the File Explorer and you will see something like this:

After you install Dokan library, you will see something like this:

Notice the O drive. That is the Ouisync drive. The purpose of Dokan is to mount that O drive on your Windows machine.

When you create Ouisync repositories, you will see them reflected here in your File Explorer. Without Dokan that would not be possible.

With Dokan installed, you can drag and drop the files into the Ouisync _repositories, copy and paste, rename or delete them – all within the File Explorer.

Without Dokan, Ouisync would still be able to encrypt files and sync repositories, but you would not be able to interact with your Ouisync repositories via a file explorer. For optimal user experience, we recommend that our users install Dokan.

No. They are encrypted, and within Ouisync for Windows they cannot be previewed without Dokan.

If you try to view the files within the Ouisync app without having Dokan installed on your Windows machine, you will see this message at the bottom of your screen:

This means that the O: drive hasn’t been mounted, so Ouisync is unable to work seamlessly with Windows File Explorer or provide a way to preview files within repositories.

If you already have Dokan installed, but you see a message that your version of Dokan is out of date, this message indicates that the version on your machine is too old to meet Ouisync's requirements.

In this case, you will see a pop-up informing you of what you need to do: uninstall the existing version of Dokan, reboot your computer, and restart Ouisync. Ouisync will then automatically begin installing the latest version of Dokan for your machine.

To do this, please follow these steps.

Step 1: Stop the Ouisync app if it is running. If you simply close Ouisync by clicking on the x button in the upper right corner, the app will continue running in the background and you won’t be able to uninstall Dokan because the app will be trying to use it.

To properly exit the app, it is necessary to go to the systems tray.

Then, right click on the Ouisync icon and select Exit.

Step 2: Uninstall Dokan.

To uninstall Dokan, pease go to the Windows Control Panel

Then, locate Dokan in the list of Programs installed and right click > Uninstall. Follow the onscreen prompts and, at the end of the successful uninstall, you will see this popup:

Step 3: Restart your computer.

Step 4: Launch the Ouisync app once more.

In the Ouisync app settings, we have provided an option to relaunch the Ouisync app after every computer restart.

For optimal syncing with your peers, we recommend this setting be ON so that Ouisync can run in the background and receive repository changes from your peers as soon as they happen.

If needed, here’s a reminder: When you launch the Ouisync app, and you don’t have the Dokan library installed, you will see this popup:

Clicking on the Install Dokan button will launch the Dokan installer. Please follow the onsreen instructions to successfully install the necessary Dokan library.

After you click Finish, Dokan will be installed and Ouisync will be ready to use.

The Ouisync Windows app screens can be used the same way as Ouisync Android screens. Most of the frequently asked questions for the Android version of Ouisync also apply to the Windows version.

No. Repositories can only be created via the Ouisync app screens. You cannot do this using File Explorer.

On your O: drive, the top level folders represent the repositories in your Ouisync app. When Ouisync is first installed, this folder in the File Explorer will be empty.

After you create a repository within Ouisync, it will also be seen here

Yes. Once you have your repository created, you can drag and drop files into it using the Windows File Explorer.

Note: it is not possible to drag and drop files directly onto the O: drive, only into previously created repositories.

You can use the File Explorer to add files to repositories, rename them, preview them, and delete them.

No. Repository manipulation (for example: renaming, sharing, and deleting) must be done using the Ouisync app screens.