Yandex disk online account login. Registering Yandex disk. How to use the Yandex.Disk folder
Good day everyone! Today we are talking about a very convenient service that I have been using in my work for a long time - Yandex Disk. What kind of “beast” is this? - you might ask. I will talk about this in detail in the article below. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments, we will figure it out and look for answers! In the meantime, let's get acquainted with one of the most convenient file storages from the developers of the popular Russian search engine Yandex.
1. Yandex Disk: what is it
Yandex.Disk is a popular cloud storage that allows users to store various information (photos, videos, audio, texts and other files) in the so-called “cloud”, i.e. on a server on the network. Data stored on Yandex.Disk can be shared with other users, as well as accessed from various devices - other computers, tablets and smartphones. The basic version of Yandex.Disk is completely free and available to everyone. I remember that in 2012, registration was by invitation only, and I used an alternative service - Dropbox. But now I have completely switched to Yandex Disk Cloud. After all, free, and even accessible from everywhere, 10 GB is never superfluous.
2. Yandex Disk: how to use - step-by-step instructions
So, I convinced you, and you decided to install Yandex Disk on your computer. Now let’s take a closer look at how to use Yandex Cloud (also called Yandex.Disk, since it is a cloud data storage).
2.1. How to create Yandex Disk (registration in Yandex Cloud)
In order to start using Yandex.Disk, you need register and create a mailbox from Yandex(if you already have one, go straight to the second point).
After you have selected the operating system that you have installed, the download of the distribution will begin.
3. How to install Yandex Disk on a computer. Open the downloaded file, the further installation program will start, which will end with the following message:
Personally, I always uncheck the boxes and do not install any additional applications, but you can leave them. Click the “Finish” button. Congratulations, you are amazing :)
The installation of Yandex Cloud on your computer has completed. Now in the settings you need to specify your email login and password, after which you can safely use all the functions of the cloud storage.
After installation, a Yandex.Disk shortcut will appear on the desktop:
The folder is also available when you go to My Computer:
On the Internet, you can go to Yandex.Disk from your email or via the link - https://disk.yandex.ru/client/disk
4. Installing Yandex.Disk on a smartphone. Free apps are available for iOS and Android, so you can easily download them from the App Store and Google Play. The application for iOS does not have a very high rating, there are some shortcomings, all of which can be seen in the reviews.
2.3. Yandex Disk: how much free space?
Immediately after registering and installing Yandex.Disk, you can access 10 free GB of space in the Cloud. This is quite enough for a start; it lasted me about six months. What to do if there is not enough space?
- Additional free 10 GB for inviting friends. You can get 512 MB of free cloud space for each friend you invite. Go here - https://disk.yandex.ru/invites and you will see your referral link, which you need to copy and send to your friends. After each user registers using your link, you will receive additional disk space, and the invited friend will receive an additional 1 GB.
- Additional up to 250 GB as a gift from Yandex partners. Various promotions are regularly held that will allow you to get additional gigabytes of free space. You can track current promotions on this page.
And of course, as you can expect from Yandex, additional space can be purchased. However, the pleasure does not come cheap:
If you need a lot of space in the Cloud, but don’t want to pay, you can create several mailboxes and create Yandex.Disk for each of them.
2.3. Login to Yandex Disk
Registration has been completed, the available space has been sorted out, the question arises -?
You can view downloaded files in several ways:
1. Open the Yandex.Disk folder shortcut on the Desktop, if you did not delete it after installation.
2. Open Yandex.Disk in the My Computer folder.
3. Click on the Yandex.Disk icon in the taskbar, located in the far right corner of the screen.
4. Log in to your Yandex mail through any browser and at the top there will be a link to the Cloud:
6. Go to the Yandex main page while logged in to your email. In the upper right corner there will be a link to Yandex.Disk:
2.4. How to upload files to Yandex Disk - 7 easy ways
Let us now consider the most important point, because of which we took all these actions -. Again, there are several ways to do this:
1. Via context menu. Select the file that needs to be uploaded to the Cloud, right-click on it and select the item: “Yandex.Disk: Copy public link”:
2. Copy the file to the Yandex.Disk folder(I wrote above how to enter it). By default, this folder is synchronized automatically, so when you copy there, all files will be immediately added to your Disk.
3. Upload files via mobile app iOS or Android. I can consider this method in a separate article, if you leave such a wish in the comments.
4. Upload a file to the Cloud via browser. To do this, simply drag and drop the selected files into a browser window with Yandex.Disk open:
5. Copying other people's files. If someone shared with you a link to a file that is stored on Yandex.Disk, you can easily save it to your Cloud. To do this, you need to follow the sent link like https://yadi.sk/*** and click on the “Save to Yandex.Disk” button on the right.
They also often ask - how to upload a folder to Yandex Disk. The principle is the same as stated above in the files section. But there is one more additional benefit - the folder can be assigned to Shared access. This way, other users to whom you grant access rights will be able to view and download files in this folder, as well as upload their own files there.
How to upload a video to Yandex Disk?– is also a very popular question from Cloud users. This is due to the fact that video files are usually large, and many people worry that they simply won’t “fit” and cannot be stored there. This is not true, video files, just like photos, can be uploaded and stored on Yandex.Disk.
2.5. Yandex Disk: how to transfer files to another user
You can also remove access to the file by clicking the mouse and switching it to OFF.
If for some reason you need to remove Yandex.Disk from your computer, then you should do the same as with a regular application - use standard operating system tools.
Let's move on: Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features
In the window that appears, select Yandex.Disk (usually it is the last one in the list) and click the “Delete” button. The downloaded files will remain in your account; only the application will be deleted from your computer.
Yandex Disk is a free cloud storage from the Yandex company for storing data on remote servers on the Internet. On this service, the user can store his files, which will always be at hand if he has access to the Internet.
Data from the cloud will be available to you from anywhere there is an Internet connection. Files placed in file storage are not tied to a specific computer, phone or other device.
The data is physically located in the cloud and can be accessed from any device. You can start working with documents in one place, and after a while finish the work from another place or from another device.
You can upload files to Yandex.Disk from a computer or mobile phone, using a special application, or through the cloud storage web interface. Files placed on Disk are synchronized between devices.
You can share files with your friends by giving them a link to any file from the Yandex Disk cloud storage.
Key features of the Yandex Disk cloud
Yandex Disk is linked to your Yandex email account. All Yandex mail users receive a certain amount of space in cloud storage.
The disk is available for use on all major operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux (using the console client), and on mobile devices running Android or iOS.
This free cloud storage allows you to store files up to 10 GB indefinitely. Files located in cloud storage are scanned by Dr.Web anti-virus.
Main features of the Yandex Disk cloud:
Agree, it’s a good set of functions, and they’re also provided for free.
How to use Yandex Disk
In order to start using Yandex.Disk cloud file storage, you must complete the following steps:
- Go to Yandex email.
- Enter your email details and then click on the “Login” button.
- On the email mailbox page, in the menu there is a “Disk” button, which you need to click to enter cloud storage from Yandex mail.
If you have already logged into your email account and your browser remembers your choice, to log into the cloud you just need to click on the “Disk” link in the Yandex mailbox login form.
If you do not have a mailbox on Yandex, then you will need to create an email there. This action will only take a few minutes. Otherwise, you will not be able to access the cloud storage.
Another login option: from the Yandex main page. In the email login menu, click on the “Disk” link. After this, you will log into the Yandex.Disk cloud storage through the browser web interface.
By default, the user receives 10 GB of free cloud storage space for free. Previously, this disk size was provided for certain actions, during which the user learned to use the Disk.
The cloud service can be used through the web interface from Yandex mail by going to the “Disk” tab.
After clicking on a file that is in the storage, you can perform certain actions with this file: view if it is a graphic file or multimedia file, download the file to your computer, or copy, move, rename, delete.
After this, a link to download the file appears in the field under the switch; you can copy it or send it to the recipient by clicking on the button to enter the mailbox, or on the social network buttons.
Working through the web interface in Yandex Disk, the user can open a large number of files of different formats without downloading them to his computer.
Online support for the following formats is available to the user in Yandex Disk:
- DOC/DOCX, XSL/XSLX, PPT/PPTX, ODS, ODP, OpenDocument, CSV, RTF, TXT, PDF;
- JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, EPS, PSD, NEF, CDR, AI;
- MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV;
- ZIP, RAR, Tar;
- MP3, AAC, MKA;
- FB2, EPUB;
The user can view documents in text formats, images, video and audio files, open archives, and view books.
Free Microsoft cloud office services are integrated into Yandex Disk: Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online. Thanks to this, the user can create and save a document, spreadsheet or presentation directly in the cloud by logging into Drive from any device.
Yandex Disk supports connection via the WebDAV protocol. Therefore, you can connect Yandex Disk via WebDAV, like a network drive in Explorer.
For the convenience of storing files on your computer, you can move the Yandex Disk folder to another partition of your computer’s disk.
Yandex Disk application
The service can be used without using a web interface through Yandex mail. The user can install a special application on the computer - the Yandex.Disk program for the convenience of working with the storage. After installing the program on your computer, access to Yandex Disk will appear from Explorer and from the notification area after clicking on the application icon.
After installing the client application on your computer, a separate disk called “Yandex.Disk” will be displayed in Explorer. The Disk icon is located in the notification area (tray), and a program shortcut will appear on the Desktop.
If you double-click on the disk icon with the left mouse button, you will see the “Yandex.Disk” folder. A green checkmark on the icon indicates that the Disk is synchronized. The “Yandex.Disk” folder already contains “Documents” and “Music” folders for storing the corresponding files.
You can store files in these folders, delete these folders, rename them, or create other folders, or simply place files in Yandex.Disk directly without placing them in folders.
You can add files to Disk by simply dragging the mouse or using the standard method: copying or cutting.
Files are deleted from Disk in the same way as files are deleted from any other folder; when you right-click on a file, you must select “Delete” from the context menu, in which case the file is placed in the trash.
To move a file to or from a computer, the easiest way is to simply drag the file from Disk with the mouse, or drag the file to the Yandex.Disk folder.
By right-clicking on the “Yandex.Disk” icon from the notification area, you can manage the program settings. Right-click on the icon, in the menu that opens, click on the gear icon (settings), then a context menu for managing Disk will open.
A message indicating that the file is being opened appears in the Notification Panel. Link copied to clipboard.
In the new Yandex.Disk window, you must click on the “Download” button to download the file to your computer, or click on the “Save to Yandex.Disk” button to save the file in the user’s cloud storage.
You can view some files without downloading them if you click on the “View” link.
The program will be updated from time to time, and reminders about this will periodically pop up from the Notification Panel.
Files deleted from Disk are not immediately deleted from the cloud storage; they first go to the Recycle Bin. You need to remember this because deleted files that are in the Recycle Bin continue to take up useful space in your storage. This is done so that within 30 days the user has the opportunity to restore his data in case of mistaken deletion.
To completely delete files from cloud storage, you will need to click on the trash can image in the right side column.
Expanding free free space in Yandex Disk
You'll end up with 11GB of storage space, and you can further increase your cloud storage capacity up to 20GB by issuing invitations to other users. For one invitee, your storage capacity will increase by 0.5 GB. The person you invite will receive 1 GB of additional disk space.
Currently, when downloading photos and videos from mobile devices, the space occupied by these files is not taken into account in the total storage volume (unlimited storage).
Conclusions of the article
The free service Yandex.Disk for storing files will be useful for those users who do not have enough space on the hard drive of their computer to store their data, or so that the user has the opportunity to exchange their files with other users.
Yandex Disk - cloud file storage Yandex Disk
Yandex Disk (Yandex Disk) - a cloud service that is always with you. Your files, photos, videos and documents on Yandex.Disk are accessible from anywhere in the world, on any device with an Internet connection.
Features of Yandex Disk
Yandex.Disk is a cloud service that allows you to combine files in one place, access them from multiple devices and easily share them with friends and colleagues, via the Internet, wherever they are, simply by sending them a link via email, social media network or in any other way convenient for you.
Yandex Disk - working with screenshots
The user of the Yandex Disk service is allocated 10 gigabytes of disk space in cloud storage for free; if this space is not enough, then there is always the opportunity to increase the volume of Yandex.Disk by connecting to one of the paid tariff plans. To connect to a paid tariff plan, you must select the “Increase Disk Volume” item located in the context menu called by right-clicking on the application icon in the system tray.
To log into the Yandex Disk application, you just need to specify the login and password of your Yandex Mail account; if you don’t have one, you can create an account by clicking on the “Register” sign.
After installing the program, a “Yandex.Disk” folder will appear on your personal computer running the operating system, which can be opened in several ways:
- from the system tray located in the notification area
- from the Start menu
- by opening Computer or Explorer you will find Yandex.Disk in the “Favorites” section
Yandex Disk - cloud folder
The application supports drag-n-drop technology; in order to upload a file to the service, simply drag the file to the main page of Yandex or Yandex.Disk, and it will be saved in your cloud.
One of the interesting features of the service is the ability to edit photos using the Yandex.Disk application for computers or mobile devices; convenient tools and beautiful filters are available to the user.
Yandex Disk - menu in the system tray
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Convenient free cloud storage with which you can share files with friends and colleagues, store data that you need to access from anywhere, create and edit documents and images. It's all about Yandex Disk.
Before you start using the cloud, you must first create (register) it. This process for Yandex Disk is quite simple. Actually, by registering a Disk we mean creating a mailbox on Yandex. Therefore, we will consider this process in detail.
- First of all, you need to go to the Yandex main page and click the button "Get mail".
- On the next page, enter your first and last name, create a username and password. Then enter your phone number and click "Confirm number".
- We are waiting for a robot call that will tell us the code, or an SMS with a code that must be entered in the appropriate field. If the numbers are correct, confirmation will occur automatically.
- We check the data and click on the big yellow button with the inscription "Register".
- After clicking, you will be taken to your new mailbox. Look at the very top, find the link "Disk" and we move along it.
- On the next page we see the Yandex Disk web interface. We can get to work (installing the application, setting up and exchanging files).
Let us remind you that Yandex’s policy allows you to create an unlimited number of boxes, and therefore Disks. So, if the allocated space seems not enough, you can create a second (third, n-th).
Yandex.Disk is a file storage (cloud) from the Yandex company. Anyone can receive it after registration. 10 GB of space is allocated for free. Forever!
On a note . Cloud storage is a modern file sharing service. Information there is stored not in one place, but on many small servers that are located in different parts of the globe. The main advantage is the extremely low probability of data loss.
The cloud is convenient, because to access stored information you just need to have the Internet. This makes it easy to receive and transfer various files, including large ones.
Cloud from Yandex
The Yandex website has been distributing free “clouds” to everyone for several years now. There you can store files and transfer them to other users. And not only within the system - you can get a link through which anyone can download the file. In addition, the service allows you to set up automatic uploading of photos from your phone, tablet and other devices.
All this is called Yandex.Disk. To get yourself such a thing you just need to register in the system. And for those who have mail on Yandex, the cloud is available without registration.
According to the creators of the service, the data storage period on it is unlimited.
How to log into Yandex.Disk
If you don't have it yet
A free 10 GB disk is given to anyone after registering in the system. But if you have mail in yandex.ru, then you don’t need to specifically receive it - just go to the mailbox, and there, at the top, click on “DISC”.
If there is no mail, then to get a cloud, you will need to register in the system:
1 . Open the website disk.yandex.ru and click the “Start your own disk” button.
2. Answer a few questions about yourself and click “Register”.
Upon completion of registration, you will immediately be able to use the service.
Just be sure to write down your chosen username and password in a safe place. After all, these are login data - without them you will not be able to get into the cloud.
If the Disk already exists or once existed
This means that in order to get into it, you need to log in to your page. This can be done on the official website disk.yandex.ru. Simply type your username/password at the top and click “Login.”
You can also get there through the main page of yandex.ru. First, we enter the mail through the rectangle in the upper right corner of the site.
Well, from mail we go to Disk.
How to use
You can use Yandex.Disk like this:
- Via the web interface, that is, through the site directly in the browser.
- Through the program: download/install it on your computer.
- Via mobile application: install on your phone or tablet.
Web interface
This is what the disk looks like when we open it in a browser (internet program):
Usually there are already several photos, a video and a folder with music. The system creates them automatically so that the user can become familiar with all the capabilities of the service.
For example, pictures can not only be viewed, but also edited: rotated, cropped, brightened, etc.
How to upload your files. To add your file to the cloud, you need to click the “Upload” button, which is located at the top of the page.
A window (explorer) will open, from which we select the file and click the “Open” button. Well, or just double-click on it with the left mouse button.
After downloading, the file will be added to Disk. Now it will be stored both on your computer and in the cloud.
1 . Place the cursor over the file or folder that needs to be transferred and check the box that appears.
You can open a file, edit it, move it somewhere, download and even delete it in the same way - through the menu on the right side.
Computer program
You can also use the cloud directly from your computer through a special program. This is convenient when you work with it often. This program can be taken from the web interface. Click on the item “Download disk for Windows” and download the program on a separate page.
After downloading, run the file and install. Here everything is as usual, the only thing is that you can uncheck the items “Install Yandex.Browser” and “Set search settings and make Yandex the home page” so that nothing unnecessary is added to your computer.
When you first launch the program, a window will open where the “Get Started” button will immediately be highlighted, but by clicking on the blue text below you can change some settings (for example, the folder where the information will be stored).
By default, all folders in Yandex.Disk will be synchronized with the computer (and vice versa) whenever the content is updated, but for individual folders you can cancel synchronization.
In addition to the program, there is an application for tablets and phones, which is very convenient for those who often use the service from these devices.
P.S.
More information on how to use the web interface, program and mobile application can be found on the official
