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 via the help menu in the system bar.

Start synchronizing a collection

Navigate to a collection which you want to synchronize to your local file system.
Open the context menu on the collection.
In the context menu, find the "Start Drive sync" action.
Move your mouse cursor over the action. Depending on your system configuration, the following happens:

Nothing happens: Simply click the "Start Drive sync" action. This synchronizes all assets in the currently selected collection and its child collections into a single flat folder in the CELUM location in your local file system. No folders are created locally for the child collections.

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.

A sub-menu opens: You can decide between the following use cases in the sub-menu:

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

The current collection and/or its child collections 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 collection

Navigate to a collection which you are currently synchronizing with CELUM Drive.
Open the context menu on the collection and click the "Stop Drive sync" menu entry:

Alternatively, you can stop the Drive sync in the magic menu.
The collection 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 collection in CELUM Content.

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