Have you ever wanted to ask your family, friends, customers or suppliers to upload files to your Synology with a simple link and without having to give them per
Well, now you can. I discovered this by chance…
Here is how:
Navigate to the folder you want them to upload the files or create one:
Right-click on the folder and click on “Create a file request”:
Now:
- Set the validity period
- Copy the link to email it to them
- Send them a custom message
- Enable password protection
This is what they will see when they navigate to the link you sent them:
And you are done!!
Do you want to delete the link?
Follow this simple instructions.
Do you want to share your files instead? Here is a tutorial.
Hi, I just found your blog after having my NAS for a short while now. 🙂 I am an intermediate PC user however I might have loads of questions.
This article is useful to allow people to upload to a specified folder, however, my question is, will these people (or any of them) have access to this folder too? (after uploading to it)
Or do I have to control that with general folder access rules?
Example: I make a ‘public’ folder. I share it with someone to upload whatever to it. If I don’t want this to be accessable to everyone, do I just setup guest or user rights?
Exactly, you just specify who has access to that folder,
/Ruth
Merci pour votre tutoriel ! j’ai cherché pendent des heures sur photo station sans succès !
Fantastic!! Glad it worked for you!
/Ruth
Thanks so much for posting this! I was trying to figure out how best to get a bunch of people to upload files to a specific location (esp. if not all are Google users) and came across this! Glad to know my synology has alternative uses.
Hi Jess, your synology is a gem! Glad I could help a little 🙂
/Ruth
Hi..do you know if synolgy sends the synology owner notification that someone has uploaded a file?
Hi Al, the times I have used it, I never got a notification, so, as far as I know, it doesn’t send a notification.
/Ruth
Somehow this doesn’t work. I’ve got the url with my username.synology.me/5000… but nothing loads there. I tried changing the url for just the ip:5000 and then I only can access but not people outside my network.
Mmmm and your users can access your synology from outside your network?
It works like a charm for me!
I don’t have the option “creat file reguest”… only “share file links”. What it’s wrong? ore do I need to enable “guest” account first?
Hi Edwin, you don’t, it should work without it.
/Rutg
Thank you for this post. Are there any requirements to the filesystem? I have installed the latest DSM Version 6.1.3 an I can’t find the entry “Create file request” an my folder!
Regards Gerd
Thank you for your blog. Are there any requirements on the filesystem or any were else? I have installed the latest DMS Version 6.1.3 in my DS212j an I have not the entry “Create file request” on the content menu of the folder. What’s wrong?
Regards Gerd
I have found the solution. You can’t make a “Create file request” for the shared folder itself. It’s only possible for folders under the shared folder.
Regards Gerd
Thanks for sharing 🙂
file request might be disabled for other users except the admin user. you can enable it under the admin user in filestation –> settings –> shared links.
If someone has figured out how to enable email notification to the specific users emailaddress (meaning: the user that has initiated the file request), when files are uploaded, that would be worth my kudo’s!!!
I don’t, but hopefully someone here does 🙂
/Ruth
Hi! Thanks for sharing this! I was really happy to find that information. I would like to use it for commercial use, so I would be happy to customize the css of it…do you think it’s possible? Also, I would like to have it in English even if my NAS is configured in French. I didn’t find any other commercial services that would do the same: wetransfer, smash….they’re all about uploading/sending files but there is no way to send a request from a client.
Not really sure, I have to check!
/Ruth
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing! You’re the top google hit on this matter 🙂
Am I? Amazing!! :))))
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing it with me 🙂
/Ruth
There must be another setting that needs to be changed. When I right click on the folder, there are only 9 menu items ending with Properties, Rename and Delete
Sorry, I meant to thank everyone for the posts. I’m having trouble. I would appreciate your help. Cheers.
I’m so embarrassed! I figured it out. The drop down is on the right screen, not the left – just as Junggerd said.
Glad it worked out 🙂
/Ruth