Cloud accounts

Storage Studio can work with the cloud accounts and servers you already use: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, another Apple ID's iCloud Drive, S3-compatible storage, and SFTP or FTP servers. You connect them once in the Remotes & Accounts window, and from then on they are places you can copy, move, sync and back up to, or browse in Finder.

Opening the window

Choose Connect Accounts… from the More menu, or click the small badge in the corner of the Data Transfers card on the Home screen. The window has up to three tabs:

• Accounts — the accounts you've connected, with Add Account at the top.
• Mounting — which accounts, folders and devices appear together in the Storage Studio location in Finder.
• Devices — other computers and phones you've paired with Bridge. This tab only appears when Bridge is available on your copy.

%% caption: The kinds of account you can add, and how each one signs in
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    Sign in with your browser
      Google Drive
      Dropbox
      OneDrive
      Box
    Apple ID and a code
      iCloud Drive for another Apple ID
      Its Photos library, read-only
    Keys or a password
      Bucket Storage, S3-compatible
      SFTP
      FTP

Adding an account

1. Click Add Account and pick the type of account.
2. Type a Nickname you'll recognise, such as work-drive. Use a different nickname for each account; letters, numbers, spaces and _ - . + @ are allowed.
3. For Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and Box, click Open browser to sign in and approve access in your browser. For the other types, fill in the form and click Save account (or Sign in for iCloud).

Each type has its own page with the details:

• Connecting Google Drive
• Connecting Dropbox
• Connecting OneDrive, including work and school accounts
• Connecting Box
• iCloud Drive for another Apple ID and its Photos library
• S3-compatible storage
• SFTP and FTP servers

Each row in the Add Account list shows how many accounts of that type you have and how many are allowed, for example 1 / 5. When a type is full, its row is greyed out until you remove one.

What you can do with a connected account

• Copy, move or sync folders with Data Transfers, including between two accounts.
• Browse it in Finder alongside your other accounts, from the Mounting tab.
• Park a folder in it from Data Parking — see parking a folder in a cloud account.
• Use it as a backup destination.
• Look for duplicates inside it.

Looking after your accounts

Select an account to see Test connection, Remove, and — for the types that have one — Edit or Sign in again. See testing, editing and removing an account and when an account needs signing in again. Your sign-ins are kept on this Mac; here's how.

Some services can't be added at all — see accounts Storage Studio doesn't connect and Google Photos.

If something looks wrong

If a yellow banner says The cloud transfer engine is missing, Add Account is switched off until it's fixed — see moves or transfers say a component is missing. If you signed in but the list stays empty, see my cloud accounts list is empty after signing in.

See also: Data Transfers · The Storage Studio location in Finder · Bridge · Storage Studio's cloud accounts and iCloud Drive