What is a drive?

You store your files, folders, assets, and comments all in drives. You can choose to create a drive per project, per client, per shoot, or however you choose depending on you and your teams workflows.

Users can be added to a drive with the following permissions:

• Drive Managers - A drive manager is a workspace member or workspace admin that manages who can be invited to this drive and what permissions are inherited from the workspace
• Full Access - Able to create shareable links and shareable modifications on files and folders
• Editor - Able to edit and move files and folders around within the drive
• Commenter - Able to comment and approve of files
• Viewer - Able to view files but not comment

Drives house files and folders of which some of them can choose to be AI indexed, however all files and folders will be full text searchable.

Creating a New Drive

Drives can be easily created by heading over to the left sidebar and hitting the plus icon next to the “My Drives” section header. Here it will ask you what type of drive you would like to create - a cloud drive (individual workspaces have an additional option of choosing a private catalog drive that is specific to their computer).

Creating a Cloud Drive

Cloud drives are the easiest to set up as all the location set up and infrastructure is configured and managed by Shade. To get started, simply define a name and upload the files that you’d like to be added to the drive.

You can easily invite guests to the drive by hitting the Share on the discover page of the Drive. Since you created the drive too, you can change inheritance permissions for other members.

Adding Assets to the Drive from the Desktop or Web App

Adding additional assets to drives is simple - simply upload and drag and drop the files you wish to add. Shade will manage the uploading from there.

Adding Assets to the Drive from Your File Explorer

Because Shade virtually mounts all drives you have access to directly in your file explorer, you can also add assets to your drives by dragging into the drive locations found on your left sidebar.