Quick Share: Share Any File by Link, With a Password If You Want
Share a file from any storage by link: your cloud's own link, a short ftpie.link link, or one behind a password. Several files share one link, and FTP, SFTP and your PC are covered too.
Select a file in FTPie, or several, and choose Share. You get its link straight away, with Copy link as the big button. If the file is on a cloud, that is the cloud's own link. One click more makes it a short ftpie.link link, or puts it behind a password. In Windows Explorer the same thing is Quick Share in the right-click menu.
Three kinds of link
- Your storage's own link. What Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or S3 make themselves. It lives as long as your storage keeps it, and nothing passes through us
- A short link. Shorten URL turns it into
ftpie.link/and ten characters, which opens the file where it is. Easier to read out, paste into a chat or put in a QR code - A link with a password. Add a password makes the same short link, behind a password you choose. The person opening it types the password in their browser
Use the storage link instead goes back to the original, and both links keep working. Show QR code and Send by email under the button work with whichever link is in the box.
Several files, one link
Select files and folders together and choose Share. The dialog lists each item's own link, with Copy on every row and Copy all at the top. One short link for all makes a single page on ftpie.link that lists them, each with an Open button, and Add a password beside it protects that page.
What the other person sees
A page in their browser, on a phone or a PC. No account, no app, in their own language. A short link to one file goes straight to the file on your storage; several files show as a list; a password link asks for the password first.
Files on FTP, SFTP or your PC
An FTP or SFTP server, a WebDAV share, a NAS or your own PC can't make a public link. For those, Quick Share uploads a copy to a cloud you choose for sharing, in Settings > Share, and gives you that cloud's link, which you can shorten or protect like any other. It asks first: what goes up, its size, and where, with Change to pick another cloud. Cancel uploads nothing. The upload runs inside the dialog, its progress in the link box.
Every link in one place
Main menu > Shared links keeps everything you've shared, grouped by day, with filters for FTPie links and storage links. Copy a link again, open it, go to the file's folder, or Revoke an FTPie link to stop it for everyone at once. The list lives on your PC; no account on ftpie.link lists what you've shared.
- A short link to a file keeps the file's address on your storage, encrypted. The file never passes through ftpie.link
- With a password, the link is encrypted on your PC with a key made from the password, so ftpie.link holds only data it can't read. A forgotten password can't be recovered, not even by us
- Links tidy up after themselves: an FTPie link is deleted after 30 days without a visit, and a link made on the trial lasts 7 days at most
- The pages set no cookies and run no analytics
Screenshots and notes, shared as themselves
The screenshot tool and Notes have a Get link button: the screenshot itself, or the note as a read-only page, goes to ftpie.link, with or without a password. Share beside it still puts a copy on your own storage, as Quick Share does for any file. Screen recordings share the Quick Share way, as a link from your storage.
Who gets what
Quick Share, FTPie links and FTPie mail come with FTPie Pro and the trial. A trial has lower limits.
Common questions
Yes. Add a password in the share dialog makes a short ftpie.link link that asks for it. The password is checked in the recipient's browser and the link is encrypted with a key made from it before it leaves your PC, so ftpie.link can't read what you share. A forgotten password can't be recovered.
No. A short link to a file only keeps the file's address on your storage, encrypted, and sends the recipient there. Screenshots and notes shared with Get link are the exception: they are stored on ftpie.link, and encrypted on your PC first when you add a password.
An FTPie link is deleted after 30 days without a visit, and a link made on the trial lasts 7 days at most. You can revoke any of them sooner in Shared links. Your storage's own link lasts as long as your storage keeps it.
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and your own PC can't make public links. FTPie asks first, then uploads a copy to a cloud you choose for sharing and gives you that cloud's link, which you can shorten or protect like any other.
No. Links open in any browser. A page on ftpie.link shows in the visitor's language and sets no cookies.
Related
- Share via email - send the link in an email, through your own account or FTPie mail
- Screenshot tool - capture, then Get link
- Notes - share a note as a read-only page
- What's new in FTPie 2026.11.1 - the release that brought FTPie links
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