Desktop app

Faivelo Drive for desktop puts your Drive in a folder on your computer. Get it at faivelo.com/drive/desktop for Mac (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux.

Signing in

The app never asks for your password. It shows a short code and opens faivelo.com in your browser; sign in there (or create an account) and approve the code. The same flow the Faivelo CLI uses.

Two ways to use it

• Keep a folder in sync (recommended). A Faivelo Drive folder appears on your computer (in the Finder sidebar on a Mac). Files you add there upload to your Drive; anything added, renamed or deleted on faivelo.com is mirrored down. Changes are picked up within about a minute.
• Download everything once. Copies your whole Drive to a folder of your choice and stops. Nothing runs in the background afterwards.

You choose on first run and can switch in Preferences.

What happens to deletions and conflicts

• Deleting a file in the folder moves it to Drive Trash on faivelo.com (kept 30 days).
• Deleting a file on faivelo.com moves the local copy to your computer's Trash.
• If the same file changed on both sides since the last sync, both copies are kept: the remote one under its name, yours as name (conflicted copy from your-computer date). Nothing is overwritten.
• Renaming or moving a file in the folder renames it on Drive; it is not re-uploaded.

Big files and selective sync

Files larger than 100 MB are listed in the app but stay online-only until you open them (double-click, or choose Download). Change the limit in Preferences. You can also choose which top-level folders live on this computer; the rest stay on faivelo.com and remain browsable in the app.

Updates

The app checks for new versions on launch and every few hours. On Windows and Linux it downloads them quietly and asks to restart. On a Mac, download new versions from the page above; the first time you open the app, right-click it and choose Open.

Shared folders

This version syncs your own Drive. Folders other people shared with you are available on faivelo.com and will come to the app in a later version.