To login to your account, enter your 'username' and 'password' in the appropriate fields on DAPDrive's default page. The last login name will be remembered in a cookie. On logon DAPDrive will automatically go to the folder you last viewed during the previous session.

DAPDrive displays the contents of you account in a table, You can choose which properties you want to see and how many items you want to see on the configuration page. You can sort the items in the folder by clicking on the subject by which you want them sorted (size, date ,etc.). The preferred sort order will be saved in the database. When the cursor is placed over the file or folder icon, all the available properties of that item (file size, date created, modified, accessed, etc.) will be shown. To change folders simply click on the folder name or icon. Clicking a filename will download it, clicking the icon is only active for some file extensions.

To perform actions on items you select them first by checking the checkbox in front of each item. The select box in the bottom row will select or deselect all items.

You can edit text files directly from DAPDrive, for files smaller than 100Kb click on the icon next to the file to open an edit window where you can edit and save the text file. If your text file is larger than 100Kb use the upload and download functions to manipulate larger files.

You can access your folders either by clicking on them in the table or through DAPDrive's History List where the last 30 folders that you accessed are stored, with the most recently visited folders appearing at the top. Folder names that are too long are shortened in a smart way so they will still be recognizable. When you select an entry you will be taken there immediately.
You can disable the Input Box and History List on the configuration page.
When you click on the icon next to a folder, its properties window will appear.

To view and unpack ZIP files simply click the icon of a ZIP file and its contents will be shown in the familiar DAPDrive style. The list contains the name, date, size and compression ratio of each file. You can select individual items and extract them to the current folder.

Search for files and folders by name, date or size. Check the 'Include sub folders' to expand the search to all the sub folders.

This function allows you to copy or move files directly to any folder without having to select and open that folder first. You can manually enter a target folder or select one from the folder list.
Choose whether you want to copy or move the file, and click the OK button.

This will copy selected files and folders to the DAPDrive clipboard. To paste the selected items, navigate to the target folder and click the "Paste" button. If the item being copied already exists in the destination folder, DAPDrive will add a string to prevent accidental overwriting of an existing file, unless you delete it first yourself.

The paste button is available only if you previously copied items. It will paste the items from the DAPDrive clipboard to the current folder. The icon description indicates how many items are on the clipboard to paste.

DAPDrive can handle normal rename or rename of multiple files using wildcards. When you want to rename a file or folder, select the file, press the Rename button and enter the new name.

Files you wish to share with others from within your DAPDrive account must be placed in a folder that should be configured as a "Shared" folder.

The "Share Properties" feature is used to configure a "Shared" folder. Check the box to the left of the folder containing the items you wish to share, and then click the "Share properties" icon to open the configuration dialog consisting of three tabs:

"General" Tab - provides general information about the folder (name, size, number of contained files)

"Share" Tab - allows you to configure the folder as a "Public share" or a "DAPDrive share" folder:

Public share - the invited user does not have to open an account with DAPDrive. Bandwidth costs associated with downloading/uploading of files from/to the shared folder will be borne by the inviting user.

DAPDrive share - the invited user have a DAPDrive account. In this case, the bandwidth costs associated with downloading/uploading of files from/to the shared folder, in this case, will be borne by the invited user.

In addition you may specify the permitted level of sharing, including the following options:

• Whether the invited user must have an account with DAPDrive
• Whether the invited user will have "Read only" or "Full" access privileges
• Maximum size of files may that be uploaded by the invited user

"Invite" Tab - This generates the URL that must be used by invited users to access the "Shared" folder. This URL may be emailed to an invited user directly from Invite page.

You can delete single or multiple items by selecting them and clicking on the Delete button.

This function adds all selected files and folders to a ZIP file in the current folder. DAPDrive will suggest a filename that you can change.

This will unpack all selected ZIP files to the current folder. Selected folders and file types other than ZIP will be ignored.

To configure the appearance and behavior of DAPDrive click on the Configuration button. You can change your password, change view settings, change the number of items per page, etc. On this page you can also set what file properties you want to see in the listing: Name, Type, Size, Attributes, Modified, Created, Accessed and Short Name.

Also you can find some useful practical information such as Login Name, Count, Duration, Client Browser and IP as well as Usage information how much allocated and free Bandwidth and MB left

Use this function to create a new sub folders inside the current folder.

You can upload files to the current folder using this function. Each file slot on the upload page can contain one file that you can browse for on your local computer. Click the "Upload" button to start the upload. This may take several minutes depending on the size of the file/s being uploaded, so be patient. A progress bar will show how much time is left and how much of the file has already been uploaded. The upload is complete when the main listing refreshes, displaying the uploaded files.

Regular downloads can be performed by clicking the file you want to download. Some file types are displayed in the browser instead of being downloaded (e.g. TXT, HTML, GIF).
To download multiple files select the files you want to download and click the Download button. This packs all selected files and folders to one Zip file called DAPDrivexxx.zip (where xxx represents the date/time) and moves the Zip file to your download folder. Thereto start the actual download just click on this DAPDrive Zip file. After downloading you can use your favorite Zip program to unzip it as usual.

Clicking on this button will create a webfolder link to your DAPDrive account. The link will appear on your desktop and in your 'My Network Places' folder.

Web Folders are file folders that contain files and other folders (directories) that show up in Windows Explorer and can be accessed like any other folder on your desktop, even though the actual files reside on a remote server and are accessed across the Internet. Web Folders can be accessed from any desktop machine, including both Windows-based and MAC computers.

You can create a webfolder link to your DAPDrive account and use it just as you would a regular drive on your computer.
Click here to learn more.

This will log off the current DAPDrive user and return to the login page. If NT Authentication support is enabled it will prompt the user to close the browser window.