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# How to View & Manage Your Active Drives

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

Let's get started 🚀

#### Navigate to Active Drives

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.

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Step 2: Click on the Active Drives bar to view the existing drives.

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**Method 2**

Step 1: Sign In to your Amove account and you will be navigated to the main dashboard.

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Step 2: Click on the Drive button from the top menu on the interface.

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This will redirect you to the Drive Interface and you will find the Active Drives at the top of the interface.

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#### View an Active  Drive

Click on the Down Caret against the Active Drives.<br>

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Upon clicking the down caret, the details of the active drives will open which are explained in the table below:

| Fields        | Description                                                                  |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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.                                |

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#### Deactivate/Activate a Drive

Step 1: Click on the Down Caret against the Active Cloud Accounts to open the details of the active drives.<br>

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Step 2: Select the drive you want to deactivate by toggling the button to the left given under the Action field.

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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.

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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.”<br>

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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.”

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#### Change the Settings of a Drive

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.

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\&#xNAN;*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:

| Settings           | Description                     |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------- |
| 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 |

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**Control**

The available control settings are explained in the table below:

| Settings                              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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            | <p>The maximum number of files per folder can be 100k.<br>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. </p> |
| 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.                                                                            |

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**Speed**

The available speed settings are explained in the table below:<br>

| Settings                     | Description                                                                                               |
| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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. |

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Step 2: Make changes to the settings you want and click on the Save button to update the drive settings.

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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”.

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#### Delete a Drive

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".*

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Step 2: Click on the Delete Drive at the bottom of the page.

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Step 3: A delete confirmation opens up. If you are sure to delete your drive, click on the Yes button.

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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”.

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