How to View & Manage Your Active Drives
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Amove enables you to view and manage all the drives that have been created in the system. You can disable an active drive, delete a drive, and change its settings.In this documentation, we will explore the steps to:
Navigate to Active Drives
View an Active Drive
Deactivate/Activate a Drive
Change the Settings of a Drive
Delete a Drive
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There are two methods to access the active Drives as follows:
Method 1
Step 1: Sign In to your Amove account and you will be navigated to the main dashboard.
Step 2: Click on the Active Drives bar to view the existing drives.
Method 2
Step 1: Sign In to your Amove account and you will be navigated to the main dashboard.
Step 2: Click on the Drive button from the top menu on the interface.
This will redirect you to the Drive Interface and you will find the Active Drives at the top of the interface.
Click on the Down Caret against the Active Drives.
Upon clicking the down caret, the details of the active drives will open which are explained in the table below:
Step 1: Click on the Down Caret against the Active Cloud Accounts to open the details of the active drives.
Step 2: Select the drive you want to deactivate by toggling the button to the left given under the Action field.
Step 3: Upon toggling the button to the left, a deactivate confirmation opens up. If you are sure to deactivate the selected drive, click on the Yes button.
Once the drive gets deactivated, you will see a flash message in the top-right corner of the interface that “Your Drive has been deactivated.”
Similarly, to activate the drive, toggle the button to the right given under the Action field and your drive will get activated again while displaying a flash message that “Your Drive has been activated.”
Step 1: Open the Active Drives details and click on the Settings icon of the Drive for which you want to view or update the settings.
Note: For viewing the Active Drive details, please refer to the above section "View an Active Drive". A new dialog window will appear, providing you the available settings through the following tabs:
General
Control
Speed
General
The available general settings are explained in the table below:
Control
The available control settings are explained in the table below:
Speed
The available speed settings are explained in the table below:
Step 2: Make changes to the settings you want and click on the Save button to update the drive settings.
Once the settings get updated, you will be redirected to the Drive interface and a flash message will display in the top-right corner of the interface that “Your Drive has been updated”.
Step 1: Open the Control tab of the drive you want to delete. Note: For accessing the Drive Settings, please refer to the above section "Change the Settings of a Drive".
Step 2: Click on the Delete Drive at the bottom of the page.
Step 3: A delete confirmation opens up. If you are sure to delete your drive, click on the Yes button.
Once the drive gets deleted, you will be redirected to the Drive interface and a flash message will display in the top-right corner of the interface that “Your Drive has been deleted”.
Fields | Description |
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Settings | Description |
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Settings | Description |
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Settings | Description |
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Cloud Account
Name of the associated cloud account on which the drive has been configured.
Drive Name
Name of the drive.
Bucket
Associated bucket to download the cloud files.
Settings
Drive settings
Re-Sync
Refresh your drive to assure all content is instantly accessible.
Action
Functionality to activate/deactivate a drive.
Cloud Account
Name of your Cloud account
Drive
Name of your Drive
Bucket Name
Name of your Bucket
Local Drive
Name of your Local drive
Local Cache Folder
Name of your Local cache folder
Drive Type
You can switch the drive type between Stream and Mirror.
Cloud to Local Sync
If there are any changes to a file in the bucket (new version) or if there’s a new file, it will sync to the drive in the saved intervals.
Cache Size
The size of your Cache.
Number of files per folder
The maximum number of files per folder can be 100k. It is recommended to keep the number of files per folder in a drive to a reasonable limit. This can help improve performance, organization, accessibility, and security.
Enable file deletion in cloud account
If you enable File Deletion for this local drive, any objects deleted will also be deleted in your corresponding cloud bucket. As agreed in the Amove Terms.
Number of Concurrent Threads
The number of tasks that the drive can execute simultaneously.
Number of chunks per objects
The number of parts divided for each object that are transferred in parallel across the network.
Chunk Size
The size of the data blocks that are used to divide a file into smaller pieces for storage and retrieval.