Connect Dropbox or Google Drive
Two clicks and a browser window. No key to paste, and nothing gets moved.
Updated Jul 26, 20262 min readApplies to 1.0.0
les Archives reads your photographs where they already are. Nothing is moved, copied into a new library, or renamed. Connecting is how the app gets permission to look.
Where the button is
Two places, and they do the same thing.
During setup. Step 2 of the first-launch wizard, Power it up, has Connect buttons for both Dropbox and Google Drive.
Later, in Settings. Choose Connections, then the Cloud Storage card. Same buttons.
If you skipped it during setup, nothing is broken. Go to Settings when you are ready.
Choose Connect
Your browser opens and Dropbox asks whether les Archives can access your files. Approve it and the browser hands you back to the app.
Check the status line
It should read connected, with your account name next to it. That is the whole thing.
You do not pick a folder here
This is the part that surprises people. Connecting does not ask you to choose a folder, and les Archives never scans a parent folder and pulls in every job underneath it.
You pick folders one job at a time, later, when you start one. That is covered in Catalog your first job.
The connection belongs to you, not to a workspace
It is tied to your account on this Mac. It carries across every workspace you open here, and it does not travel with you. Sign in on a second Mac and you connect again there.
Two ordinary things also ask you to reconnect: signing out, which clears it on purpose, and a different account signing in on the same Mac, which never inherits your connection.
Outside of those, access renews itself in the background. A surprise reconnect prompt means the renewal failed. Reconnect, and if it happens twice in a week, tell us.
What reaches us
Your full-resolution originals never do. What does travel is a working copy of each frame you catalog. Data and privacy is the specific version, and it is worth two minutes before you catalog a client's job.
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