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Uploading a document

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Written by Julien Benoit
Updated over 2 weeks ago

In the documents section you will be able to upload files into folders.

In Catenda hub documents are containers for different versions (revisions) of a file.

Choose to either make a new document or upload the file as a revision to an existing document when uploading a file.

This article contains information about the following topics:

Uploading a file

Files can be uploaded in four different ways.

The file will end up in the folder that you are in with each upload method.

1. Upload button

To upload a new document or revision press the + button on the top right. This will open the upload document menu.

Uploading a file like this will let you choose if you want a new revision or a new document.​

2. New revision button

With a document selected in the document structure the new revision action can be found in the selected item hamburger menu towards the top of the documents table.

In a document preview the new revision action in the existing item hamburger menu towards the top right of the page can be used.

Uploading a file like this will create a new revision and not a new document.

3. Drag and drop

To upload a file simply navigate to the folder where you want to upload it and drag-and-drop it anywhere in the documents section. When the file is ready to be dropped you will see the documents section turn gray with a dotted border around it indicating that the file can be dropped.

Choose to create a new revision or a new document when uploading like this.

4. Browse button in an empty folder

Click on the browse button in an empty folder to open the Upload document menu.

Choose to create a new revision or a new document when uploading like this.

Upload document menu

After uploading files they will appear in the current folder when uploading.

Browse

By clicking the "Browse" button the systems file explorer opens and from here the file(s) to be uploaded can be chosen.

Up to 100 files can be selected, each up to 7GB*, by holding shift or control.

Drag & drop

Up to 100 files can be drag & dropped, each up to 7GB*, from the file explorer on your system.

Folders

In this menu only single documents can be uploaded.

To upload a folder it has to be zipped and uploaded in a different way.
See the Upload zip article.​

Upload limit

Limits for single files:

Up to 100 files can be uploaded at a time

Up to 7 GB per file can be uploaded at a time.

Limits for zipped files:

To upload more files at a time or larger size files, please use the 'upload zip' function.

Limits for point clouds:

Point clouds often have large file sizes so their limit has been increased to 25 GB
Click here to see more about size limits.

Desktop connector

With the Catenda Desktop Connector the latest versions of documents can automatically, periodically, be uploaded from a local system to Catenda Hub.

The Desktop Connector is both faster at doing so than the regular upload process and minimizes the risk of failure as it uploads documents file-by-file instead of in one big drag and drop or zip upload batch.

Document preview

To see if you will be able to see the contents of your filetype on Catenda click here.

Virus check

After a document is uploaded documents below 200mb will be checked for viruses.

If an uploaded document is discovered to be infected a notification will be sent to all users. The only way to disable this type of notification is to disable all notifications.

You can see if a document is infected if a red text shows up under the document name in the right information panel of the document.

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