My devices

The arrow returns to the previous screen. Here a device is any phone, computer, watch or TV box that is signed in to the same account on an exchange server, and one account can sit on one server only. This screen lists those servers; the devices themselves are shown when you tap a card.

It shows only while the list has no cards. It says that adding a server lets you see the resources and broadcasts of all your devices; Add server below is the way to do it.

A card shows the server's address, your login on it and a status line: Checking the connection.., Connected with the number of devices, or a short note about what is wrong - for example that the server does not answer or that this phone was signed out. Cards marked Outgoing are the server through which this phone publishes its folders and broadcasts. Tap a card to open the list of devices in that account; the three dots on the card open its menu.

The server sees the names of your account, devices, folders and broadcasts, which devices are online, and how much is sent and when. It cannot open what goes through it: folders and their files, broadcasts and the clipboard are encrypted on your device and opened only on your other devices or by people you gave access to. To look inside, whoever runs the server would have to add a device of their own to your account, and it would appear in your list of devices.

It opens the Sign in to an exchange server window. You need the server's connection string, or its address, and a login with a password or a pairing code. Nothing is saved until you press Sign in and the server accepts you. Afterwards the server appears as a card in the list.

The page walks through the pairing code and the connection string. It opens in your browser.

It explains who runs a server, how it connects your devices without opening a router, and what it sees and keeps. It opens in your browser.

The button shows only in editions that have the Wear companion, the same editions in which a card menu offers Connect watch. The page opens in your browser.

A small window shows the address as host and port. If the server has announced a different address, the window mentions it and offers Use the announced address. Save moves your sign-in to the new address. If an entry with that address and login already exists, or the sign-in could not be moved, nothing is changed and a message says so.

This phone publishes its folders and broadcasts through one server at a time. Choosing this server moves publishing here and marks the card Outgoing. If the previous server could not be reached, publishing stops on this phone anyway and a message says that the share may stay listed there for a while. The item is hidden on the card that is already outgoing.

The phone hands the watch a one-time code, so you type no password on the watch. Keep the watch near, unlocked and connected. The item appears only in editions with the Wear companion, and a message says if the companion is off, no watch is connected, or the watch did not answer.

A window shows a QR code and a text. Send passes the text to another app and Copy puts it on the clipboard. The text carries the address and the certificate of the server, never your login or password, so the other device still needs its own sign-in.

With the check mark on, a folder that one of your devices starts sharing appears in your resources by itself. It is off until you turn it on. Tap the item again to turn it off.

Use it when the card says that you were signed out or the sign-in was revoked, or on a new phone after a backup restore. The address, the server's certificate and your login are filled in; you type the password once. The same entry is renewed, so nothing is duplicated.

You enter the current password and the new one twice. After the change every other device of this account signs out and asks for the new password; this phone stays signed in. A forgotten password cannot be recovered, so keep it somewhere safe.

It asks first. This phone leaves the account and forgets the sign-in. Resources attached from this server stay in the list and show as unavailable until you add the server again. If the server cannot be reached, a message says that the phone stays in the account's device list until another device revokes it.

Undo

The sign-in on this phone is forgotten. To come back, sign in again with the password or a pairing code; the account and its other devices are not touched.

You enter the account password to confirm, and the window opens on the safe button. The server erases the account at once: all its devices, published folders and broadcasts, sign-ins and the clipboard. Folders you added stay in your list but show as no longer published. A button in the window opens a page of the project website on how it works.

Undo

This cannot be undone. The account, its device list and everything published through it are gone from the server; only signing up again with a new invitation brings back an account, and it starts empty.

A window titled with the server's address lists every device in the account: its name, the program it runs, and Online or Offline in words. This phone is shown as This phone. A device that has paused sharing is marked so. Close shuts the window.

Every device except this phone has a Revoke button. It asks first and names the device. The device loses access and can come back only by signing in again. This phone has no such button; it leaves with Sign out on this device.

Undo

The device is removed from the account at once. To bring it back, sign in again on that device with the password or a pairing code.

The code appears below the button together with the time it is valid until. Enter it on the other device instead of the password; it works once, so ask for a new one if it was not used. It is handy on a TV box or any device where typing a strong password is hard.

Paste the text you were given, press Paste to take it from the clipboard, Scan QR to read a code with the camera, or Choose file to open a file of the kind the server makes. The string holds the server's address and the fingerprint of its certificate, never a login or a password, and it fills in what it can. If it is an invitation, the window turns into creating a new account: the password is asked twice and the button reads Create account.

Filled in by the connection string, or typed by hand as host:port. A wrong form is pointed out before anything is sent. Changing the address after reading a string drops the certificate that came with it.

A login is 3 to 64 Latin letters, digits, dots, hyphens or underscores. It is only an account name; the server's owner gives it to you or you choose it when you accept an invitation.

It is sent to the server once and not kept by the phone: the phone keeps a device sign-in instead. If you ticked the pairing code box, this field becomes the Pairing code field.

Tick it when another of your devices issued a one-time code. The Password field becomes Pairing code. The code works once and for a short time only.

While the server answers, the window shows progress. If the server presents a certificate this phone does not know, a window asks you to check its fingerprint against the one the server shows and then Trust it or Cancel; do not trust a fingerprint that does not match. On success the window closes and the server appears as a card.