Synchronize with CELUM Drive

CELUM Drive is one of CELUM's cloud services and enables you to synchronize content in CELUM Content to your local file system. It comes with a handy desktop app which you install on your local computer.

If the CELUM Drive functionality is subscribed by your organization, you can seamlessly transfer your content from CELUM Content to your local file system. The exact behavior depends on your system's configuration, as described below.

Prerequisites

You need to have a personal CELUM Cloud user account with a permission to use your organization's subscribed services and you need to be connected to it in CELUM Content. Your organization must have a valid subscription for CELUM Drive.
You need to download the CELUM Drive desktop app and install it on your computer. You can download the app from CELUM's customer portal portal.celum.com.

Start synchronizing a node

Navigate to a node which you want to synchronize to your local file system.
Open the context menu on the node.
Depending on your system configuration, you see the following actions in the context menu to start the Drive sync:

1 action "Start Drive sync": Simply click this action to synchronize all assets in the currently selected node and its sub-nodes into a single flat folder in the CELUM location in your local file system. No folders are created locally for the sub-nodes.

This is the default behavior. If you'd like to change this behavior, contact the technical administrator of your CELUM Content server so they can change the configuration.

2 actions "Start Drive sync for current node" and "Start Drive sync for all sub-nodes": Allows for more nuanced sync behavior. Decide between the following use cases:

Start Drive sync for current node: Synchronizes all assets inside the current node and its sub-node hierarchy into a flat folder in your local file system. No local folders are created for sub-nodes.
Start Drive sync for all sub-nodes: Synchronizes the assets in the currently selected node's sub-node hierarchy, and recreates the direct sub-nodes as folders in your local file system. Assets directly inside the current node itself are not synced.

The current node and/or its sub-nodes are synchronized to your local file system according to the described behavior.

Find more information about the CELUM location in the CELUM Drive online help topic "View synchronized files".

Stop synchronizing a node

Navigate to a node which you are currently synchronizing with CELUM Drive.
Open the context menu on the node and click the "Stop Drive sync" menu entry:
The node is no longer synchronized to your CELUM location.

The unsynchronized directory does not get deleted from your CELUM location (you get to keep all files which were synchronized so far), but no more changes will be received from the node in CELUM Content.

Some restrictions apply to the CELUM Drive synchronization due to permissions or node validation. Please consult the CELUM Drive help topic "Special cases for CELUM Content" for more information.