Foldr works with whatever storage you already have. SharePoint sites, S3 buckets, SMB shares set up years ago, OneDrive accounts, all in one place. On an SMB file server the server’s own permissions still apply, and Foldr adds its own on top.
A connector takes a few minutes to set up. Most read auth from your existing identity provider, so users don’t see a second login.
OneDrive 
SharePoint 
MS Teams 
Google Drive Google Shared Drives 
Azure Blob 
S3 
Box 
Dropbox 
Backblaze B2 (S3) 
SMB / CIFS Edge agent 
WebDAV 
FTP / SFTP 
Group Drives 
Shortcut folders 
Foldr Storage Don’t see yours? Most niche backends speak SMB, WebDAV or S3 underneath. Tell us what you’re running and we’ll confirm.
On a Foldr appliance, that means anything on your network. On Foldr Cloud the server has to be reachable from the internet, so for a file server behind your firewall we use the Edge agent: a small program that sits beside the server (Windows or Linux) and connects out to us, so you don’t open a single inbound port, and it opens files as the account you give it, so the server’s own permissions still apply. Backblaze B2 goes through its S3 interface (you’ll need an application key, not the master key). Foldr Storage is storage we host on Foldr Cloud, there for trials and evaluation: every trial starts with a 10 GB share already set up, so you can try Foldr before you connect anything of your own. A shortcut folder (Foldr’s Pointer Container) is a folder whose contents are shortcuts to other shares, so the HR drive, the Finance drive and a shared OneDrive can sit under one roof.
Group Drives let an authorised user browse the personal stores of others in a group: OneDrives, Google Drives and, on an appliance, directory home folders. Foldr resolves each user’s storage as that user, so you see exactly what they’d see. Configure once; the directory decides who can see whose.
Point the Group Drive at one or more directory groups; the share lists every user in those groups. Open a user’s folder to step into their personal storage stack: OneDrive, Google Drive, a home folder on an appliance, whichever pointers the share owner configures.
Foldr authenticates the underlying storage as that user, so you see what they see. An optional ACL check tightens that further to only what you’d be allowed to open directly.
Teachers reviewing student work. Managers checking reports’ files. HR offboarding. DPO data-subject requests. IT recovery. Every open lands in the activity log, so the trail is defensible.
A signed-in person opens an SMB share with their own credentials, so the file server can still say no, and a share can filter every file by its ACLs too. Foldr adds its own permissions on top, so a link only ever carries what its creator could see.
Open a PDF, fill custom fields, securely redact, annotate. Redactions remove the underlying content, not just paint over it. The file stays where it lives. No checkout, no temp copies, no syncing.
A single query hits every connected backend. Results are filtered by what each user is allowed to see, not by where the file happens to live.
Tag a Box file. Add metadata to an SMB share. Run Captur against an S3 bucket. The data layer is consistent regardless of where the bytes are.
Connect a storage backend in a couple of minutes, disconnect just as fast. Your files stay where they are; Foldr sits in front of them. (If you’d rather not bring storage at all, Foldr Cloud can host some for you.)
A workflow that classifies invoices doesn’t care whether they live in OneDrive or SMB. Build it once and run it against every connector.
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