FlipDrive Share and Save Your Files from Anywhere

We are currently experiencing very important changes when it comes to working. Right now we are immersed in a transition to the digital world. This all started more than 20 years ago when email messaging became popular. This has meant that, gradually, their presence has been greatly reduced by postal mail and fax. However, that has not been the only thing in recent years, we have seen how cloud work and teleworking have taken a great boom. In this tutorial we are going to learn about FlipDrive, which will allow us to share and save large encrypted files in the public cloud.

We are going to start by explaining what this service offers us, how we can create a free account and some examples of use.

What does FlipDrive offer us to work in the cloud

FlipDrive will allow us to access and share all our data, regardless of where we are. Its way of working consists of storing our data in the cloud, in a suitable and secure online place. Thus, we have them available when we need them, anywhere and also from any device. FlipDrive is based in New York City and offers 24/7 support.

This service offers us a secure storage in the cloud to store data online. Here we can save our photos, documents, music, software and other files.

Another interesting function of FlipDrive is the specialized «Photo Albums » to save our photos online safely. In addition, it allows us to keep the original photo files with full resolution so as not to lose quality, share the photos with whoever we want and have a page of personal public photos. The photos are stored in a state-of-the-art, disaster-proof data center, so we can rest assured that they are protected against computer failures and viruses. On the other hand, we have full control of our photos. In this regard, we decide who has access to our personal photos, being able to choose between:

Keep our photos private.
Create a password protected photo album.

FlipDrive for sharing, collaboration, backup, and more

This cloud-based service is designed for sharing and collaboration . In that aspect, we can share any file of any size with anyone. All we have to do is configure the data access permissions for different people and groups. On the other hand, for the rest of our data we should not worry since they remain private and safe.

They also have a contact management system in which we can store, organize and manage our contacts. We can quickly locate a contact information and create our groups. By storing contacts we can share our data with individuals and entire groups without having to, for example, retype the email address.

Another way to use it is as a backup in the cloud . A fundamental thing today is to have a backup plan to be able to recover our most important data in case our computer breaks down. If this happened, we would be in a difficult and frustrating situation. Therefore, from this article we recommend having a copy of our essential data on another computer, on an external hard drive or stored in the cloud. Thus, FlipDrive safely stores and protects our data from any mishap. Keep in mind that normal backup solutions are vulnerable to attacks and hardware failure. In that sense, we obtain a truly secure private cloud to store a backup.

It also has a bookmarking system to save, organize and retrieve everything online. Thanks to this, we can create a custom category and add the related links that we need.

How to create a free or paid account

The first thing we have to do is go to the FlipDrive website by clicking on the following link .

Next, click on Sing UP to register and create our account. At that time, a list of available plans will appear at that time.

In this case, we are going to opt for the basic plan, which is free. Account creation is similar to that of the rest of the plans. Practically, the free one differs from the other Trial versions, in that they let you try it for free for 15 days, but you have to put in a credit card to create the account.

Therefore, in our case we are going to click on SING UP NOW that you have marked in the red box.

Here, we have to put a username, our name, surnames, an email, the country and a password that you must put twice. When we finish filling in all this, we will click on CONTINUE .

Now he tells us that he has sent an e-mail to the account that we put in the registry, and that we need to click on a link to activate it. Therefore, we will go to our mail inbox and see a message like this.

Then we click on ACTIVATE MY ACCOUNT and a screen like this will appear to complete the registration.

Now we put the email and the password if they do not come out, click on LOGIN , and we will be able to access our space in the cloud.

Get started with this cloud service

The first time we enter, a screen like this will appear:

Here, at the top, we see that our storage is the basic one, and that we have a space of 10 GB. Another thing to comment is that the size of the file that we want to upload should not be greater than 25 MB. Below we have access to our applications:

My drive : it would be to manage our hard drive in the cloud. There we have our folders, we can create new ones, see what they are sharing with me and what I am sharing with others.
Photos : to create an album and save our photos.
Contacts : with this option we can create contacts and more.
Bookmarks : here we can, for example, have stored the links of the URLs that we need most often to work. It allows to classify them in folders.
My Account : used to change the options of our account. For example, we can change the password or manage the space to change to a higher plan.

This would be an example of the Photos section:

If we click on New Album we can create a folder to save our photos. In addition, it will let us choose if we want it to be public or private. Private Album tells us that it is private. By clicking on Add Photos , we will add our photographs and with Share we will be able to share them.

The «Contacts» and «My Drive» sections

Managing and creating contacts in FileDrive and then passing them on is easy. It will also allow us to create groups so that later it is easier for us to share files. If we click on Contacts, Add Contact we can easily create a contact.

However, if we want to create a group so that later it is easier to share files, we will click on the second button that says New Group . Now we go with the My Drive section that would be our disk in the cloud.