Cloud storage Cloud Mail.Ru

The Mail.Ru group of companies has its own cloud storage called “Mail.Ru Cloud”. During the beta testing period of the cloud service, Mail.Ru Cloud provided everyone who took part in testing cloud storage with 100 GB of disk space free of charge. Some users received 1 TB of storage during the promotion.

This entire large amount of disk storage remained forever with all users who registered with the file service during its beta testing. Currently, the amount of space provided to users is 8 GB.

The size of free space in cloud storage for those who managed to get 100 GB is comparable to the size of a small hard drive. Other cloud storage providers provide smaller amounts of data storage for free.

Provides 10 GB for free, provides 15 GB (including mail) of disk space, - 5 GB, - 2 GB (can be increased to 16 GB for free), and cloud storage provides 50 GB of disk space for free.

You can store your data in the Mail.Ru Cloud: documents, photos, videos and any other files. To log into the cloud storage, you use a web interface or a client application that will need to be installed on your computer or smartphone. Client applications are developed for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, as well as for mobile devices: Android and iOS. In this case, “mail.ru satellite” and “mail.ru defender” will not be installed.

Data uploaded to [email protected] is automatically synchronized with other devices. Files placed on your computer in the Mail.Ru Cloud folder (Mail.Ru Cloud) will immediately be synchronized and become accessible from other devices.

In order to use a cloud drive on Mail.Ru, you must have an email account in Mail.Ru. If you do not yet have a mailbox on this service, then you should create an electronic mailbox in the Mail.Ru mail service.

After logging in via email, a cloud drive window will open: “Mail.Ru Cloud”. The user receives 8 GB of free cloud storage space for free.

In order to increase your free disk space, you will be offered to purchase additional disk space.

To work from a computer, the Mail.Ru Cloud application was previously used. The files were placed simultaneously on disk and in the cloud. As a result of synchronization. changes in one place led to changes in another.

At the moment, instead of Mail.Ru Cloud, the Disk-O: application is used. Disk-O displays files located in the cloud, and works with them on the computer. Now, files do not take up space on your computer.

Installing the Mail.Ru Cloud application

To install the Mail.Ru Cloud application on your computer, you will need to click on the “Install on computer” button. In the window that opens, select the client application for your operating system: Windows, Mac or Linux.

After downloading the Mail.Ru Cloud client program (Mail.Ru Cloud) to your computer, this application will need to be installed on your computer.

In the first window of the installation wizard, click on the “Next” button.

In the “Select installation folder” window, you can leave the default folder for installing the Mail.Ru Cloud client program, or select a different location to install the program. Then you need to click on the “Next” button.

In the “Everything is ready to install” window, click on the “Install” button.

After installing the Mail.Ru Cloud client on your computer, the final window of the installation wizard opens, in which you need to click on the “Finish” button.

In the Mail.Ru Cloud program window, you will need to enter your account information: your email address and password. Then you should agree to the terms of the license agreement, and then click on the “Login” button.

In the next window of the Mail.Ru Cloud program, you will need to select a folder on your computer to synchronize with the cloud drive, and then click on the “Continue” button.

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At the very top of the web page window there are buttons “Download”, “Create”, “Delete”, “Get link”, “Configure access”, “More”.

Using the “Download” button, files are uploaded to cloud storage. When downloading via the web interface, the file size should not exceed 2 GB (the same limit applies when downloading a file to a computer disk) with a free plan.

After clicking on the “Configure access” button, a window will open with folders that can be opened for public access.

On the left are the following sections: “Connect a tariff” with information about the amount of used disk space, “Cloud”, “Help Desk”, a form with suggestions for downloading applications for various devices.

In the central part of the window, files placed in the file storage are located. Above is the control panel with buttons.

After clicking on the “Create” button, you can create a new folder, document, table, presentation. Mail.Ru Cloud integrates the company's free cloud services: Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online.

If you mark a file in the storage and then click on the “Download” button, then the downloading of this file to your computer will immediately begin.

You can delete unnecessary files from the cloud using the “Delete” button.

Using the "More" button you can copy, rename, or move the file.

On the right side of the panel there are two buttons: for changing the appearance of the storage, and for setting parameters for sorting files.

In order to provide general access, or vice versa, to block access to a file, you must first select the file, and then perform the necessary actions on the right side of the storage window.

If you want to stop other users from accessing this file, then to do this, you will need to click on the “Remove link” link.

In order for the “Delete”, “Get link” and “More” buttons to become active, you will need to select the file with which you need to perform some action.

For security reasons, all files are stored in the cloud. are scanned by Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

You can edit files directly from the cloud: tables (in “xls” format), test Word documents (in “doc” and “docx” formats), presentations (in “ppt” format), photographs and images.

Using the Screenshot tool, you can take screenshots of the entire screen or a specific area, and then edit the taken screenshot.

You can manage the Mail.Ru Cloud application from the notification area (tray), where the client program icon is located.

The Cloud-O application icon is located in the notification area, the application is displayed in Explorer, from where you can work with files directly.

Conclusions of the article

Cloud storage The Mail.Ru cloud offers all users of the Mail.Ru service disk space in its “cloud”, which can be used to store data.