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Filen User Survey! +Giveaway

Filen User Survey! +Giveaway

Hello, Filen community! In November 2024, we gave our website, web app, and desktop client a major overhaul, along with updates to our documentation. Now that you’ve had some time to explore the improvements, we want to hear from you. Your opinions matter, and they will help us make

Filen’s Server Upgrades

Filen’s Server Upgrades

At Filen, we’re always striving to make our service faster, more reliable, and more secure. At the start of this year—during the transition between 2022 and 2023—we made a major move by switching to in-house servers. This was a big step forward, and we’ve been working

Filen at the Heise IT-Security day

Filen at the Heise IT-Security day

A Successful Discussion on Client-Side Encryption and Seamless Security The Heise IT-Sicherheitstag in Gelsenkirchen may have come to a close, but the insights and experiences shared continue to resonate. We at Filen were honored to take the stage as a guest speaker and connect with leading IT professionals, industry peers,

Filen is Enhancing Its Beta Testing Program!

Filen is Enhancing Its Beta Testing Program!

As mentioned in our last status update, we’re looking for new beta testers for our upcoming product launches. The goal is to enable us to test our products in real-world scenarios with diverse use cases before they reach the general public. While we conduct extensive internal testing and our

Status Update 09.12.2024

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Status Update 09.12.2024

Table of Contents * Black Friday 2024 Recap * Infrastructure Investments * Marketing * How to... Guides * IT-Security Day by Heise * Public Links: Limitation and Explanation * The Mobile App rework * The New Beta Testing Program * Youtube * Feature Requests * Conclusion and Final Words

How To: Desktop Client

How To: Desktop Client

Table of Contents * Prerequisites * Download * Logging into the Filen Desktop Client * Navigating within the Desktop Client * Uploading Files * Set up permanent synchronizations * Network Drive * WebDAV * S3 * Desktop Client specific settings * Desktop Client security settings * Cloud features

How To: Web Drive

How To: Web Drive

Table of Contents * Prerequisites * Logging into your Filen account * Navigating in your new Cloud Drive * Uploading Files * Creating folders and navigating the files section Create and move folders File options Sorting files Display files differently * Navigating the Sidebar of your Web Drive Folder Tree Recent Favorites Trash * Filen Collaborate (Contacts,

The biggest Filen update is finally here!

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The biggest Filen update is finally here!

Dear Filen Community, The wait is finally over! We’re excited to unveil a comprehensive set of updates that have been in the works for some time. These changes mark a significant leap forward for Filen, bringing you a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your experience

Public Link Tool: Moving to Pro-Only Access

Public Link Tool: Moving to Pro-Only Access

Hello everyone, At Filen, we are committed to providing a secure and private cloud storage experience that prioritizes the protection of your data. To uphold this commitment, we are making an essential adjustment to our public sharing feature. In approximately one week, the public link feature will be available exclusively

The Filen Q&A 2024!

The Filen Q&A 2024!

Table of Contents * Web-App, Cloud & Tech What is the upcoming spaces? Third party security audit? Are there plans to introduce post-quantum cryptography? Preview larger Videos? Are you 100% confident that all uploads, downloads, syncs are 100% error free and 100% bug free? Do you have plans to introduce passkeys or

Black Friday 2024! All news, one post.

Black Friday 2024! All news, one post.

Hello everyone, As every year, Filen is bringing back the Black Friday sale in 2024! Here’s all the essential information at a glance. When does the Filen Black Friday Sale start? The sale kicks off on November 18th, likely in the early morning Central European Time. What discounts can

Status Update 26.08.2024

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Status Update 26.08.2024

Table of Contents * Finance * Infrastructure Investments * The New Desktop Client * What happens next? * The New Filen Web Drive * CLI “Official” Beta * Our Publicly Documented API & the SDK * Black Friday Sale * Certificate Decisions * Public Appearances YouTube Videos * Marketing & Affiliate * Q&A * Survey Evaluation * Final Words / Conclusion

Closed! - Filen User Satisfaction Survey & Giveaway

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Closed! - Filen User Satisfaction Survey & Giveaway

Filen User Satisfaction SurveyWe are conducting this survey to gather your valuable feedback on various aspects of Filen. Your insights will help us improve our services and ensure we meet your needs better.blocksurvey.io We are conducting this survey to collect your valuable feedback on various aspects related to

Status Update 23.05.2024

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Status Update 23.05.2024

Table of Contents * Filen Integrations (SDK) SDK on GitHub SDK Documentation * Filen CLI SDK on GitHub * Personnel * Trust Agenda * Certification / Audit List of certificates * Desktop Client Update * Website * Encrypted Survey * External Financial Resources * Final Words / Conclusion

Mobile Update 2.0.72

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Mobile Update 2.0.72

In the latest mobile update, along with the option to retain internal albums via the automatic camera upload or background fetch, another significant feature has been added. Through file provider integration, you can now access your cloud files and folders directly from your standard "files" app (name may vary) on

Evaluation of the Customer Survey from August 21st to September 24th 2023

Evaluation of the Customer Survey from August 21st to September 24th 2023

Hello, everyone! We've made the spontaneous decision to publish the results of our latest survey. Privacy and data protection are our top priorities, so we will only be sharing trends and not individual responses. Ensuring the absolute anonymity of our users is of utmost importance to us. Consequently, questions that

Status Update 12.01.2024

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Status Update 12.01.2024

Infrastructure, Black Friday, upcoming updates & more Welcome to the new Filen Status Update! Almost exactly two months later, we are back again with everything that's happened since the last update. Today's topics are: Table of contents: * Hardware, infrastructure and the new data centers. * Mobile Update * Black Friday * New and old

Statusupdate 11.11.2023

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Statusupdate 11.11.2023

Filen Statusupdate - Sustainability, Future and more Welcome to the new Filen Status Update. We hope you have some time because it's been a while since the last update and we have a lot to talk about. This status update will be slightly different than the previous ones. We have

Update:
Notes, Chats & Contacts

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Update: Notes, Chats & Contacts

As some of you may have already seen in the Web Drive, there are three new options on the left: Notes, Chats & Contacts. Since we want to continue to focus on completely end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) collaboration in addition to completely E2EE file storage in the future, we have launched these

Safeguarding Your Filen Account: The Crucial Role of Strong Passwords and Two Factor Authentication

Safeguarding Your Filen Account: The Crucial Role of Strong Passwords and Two Factor Authentication

Welcome back to the Filen Blog, a place devoted to making sure that your valued digital assets are kept as private and secure as possible. Protecting our online accounts is more important than ever in the linked world of today. At Filen, we place a high priority on the security

Statusupdate 14.06.2023

Statusupdate 14.06.2023

Welcome to the new Filen status update. As always, we try to make security as transparent as possible and tell you (almost) everything that happened behind the scenes. So, grab a cold drink and a few minutes and bring yourself up to date with the latest information. Desktop Client Latest

Desktop Client Update 2.0.22

Desktop Client Update 2.0.22

In this update we implemented the new API, fixed many Linux problems (some distributions still cause problems but we are working on it), improved the sync performance which is also due to faster hashing and encryption functions and other important changes. You can find the full changelog below: Bugfix/QoL/

Statusupdate 21.02.2023

Statusupdate 21.02.2023

Hello everyone, it's time for another status update, because as usual a lot has happened since the last update. This time it's about the following topics: -Desktop client -Mobile Apps -Web drive -Master's thesis/Trust agenda -Website (support, roadmap, design) -Merch store -QoL changes for the team / backend changes -The

Importance of cyber security

Importance of cyber security

Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important in today's digital age as more and more personal and sensitive information is stored and shared online. The advent of the Internet and the proliferation of networked devices have made it easier for individuals and businesses to store and share information, but also for hackers

Desktop Client Update 2.0.11

Desktop Client Update 2.0.11

Another month, another update. In December we have released a new Desktop Client update which greatly improves the up and download performance together with less memory and CPU usage. A full change log is listed below: Bugfix/QoL/Performance release * Fixed a bug where files would not be synced correctly