Sync is a function that links a folder on your PC with a folder in NAVER WORKS Drive, allowing real-time updates to the folders on your PC based on changes made via the PC web, mobile app, or Drive Explorer.

You can select a folder among 'Collaborative Folders', 'Message Room Folder', 'My Drive', and 'Shared Folder' to sync with folders on your PC.Up to 3 PCs are supported.

Data restricted by Drive policies, such as file types restricted by the administrator, malware, and folders with special characters, cannot be synced. Sync is also not supported in the following cases.

• Sync with removable storage devices
• Sync with virtual drives
• Sync with Windows, Program Files folders and subfolders, and Desktop

By default, syncing is online-only (displayed as an icon on the file), so you can only access files in NAVER WORKS Drive as a folder on your PC when you log in to Drive Explorer.

If set to 'Always Keep on This Device', it will switch to the local state (displayed as an icon on the file) and can be accessed or edited even when logged out.

Sync settings

You can sync all folders and files in Drive in real-time with the folders on your PC.

For message room folders, sync can only be set for folders that are marked as 'View in Drive' or set as  'Always Show in List' .

When you select a PC folder to sync with NAVER WORKS, a folder named NAVER WORKS Drive will be created within that folder, and the sync process will begin.

However, the sync location must be specified as a subfolder on the disk partition (such as the C drive). An error occurs when selecting a disk partition as the sync location.

Unsync by folder

Folders that you don't use frequently can be excluded from syncing.

You can free up space on your PC and reduce sync time by disabling sync.

When unsyncing, online-only folders and files can no longer be viewed on the PC, and local-only or temporary local-only folders and files are moved to the PC's trash.

To prevent file deletion, check the auto-delete settings for PC trash before unsyncing.

Even if sync is disabled, you can still view folders and files in the NAVER WORKS Drive on the PC web and mobile app.

Select sync status for each folder and file

Drive Explorer lets you set the sync status for each file and folder.

You can set the sync status as one the following: local-only files that are synced at all times so that they are available offline (marked with the icon), temporary local-only files that are synced temporarily for editing and reading (marked with the icon), and online-only files that do not take up the storage capacity in the PC but can be downloaded online at any time (marked with the icon).See icons by sync status.

• Folders and files that have been set to sync are shown as online-only by default.
• Files uploaded from My PC to the sync folder are temporarily displayed as local-only.
• Files and folders within a local-only folder are always synced as local-only.

Online use only (Change to online-only status)

Free up data space on your PC by changing files and folders to an online-only status ( icon displayed).

You can maintain the PC to its optimal status by storing data in an online space.

When you open files in the online-only status (marked with the icon), the files are changed to temporary local-only files (marked with the icon).

1. Run the Drive Explorer program.
2. Log in to NAVER WORKS Drive.
3. In the sync folder, right-click the file you want to change to an online-only status.
4. Click 'Change to Online-Only Status'.

Always keep files on my PC(Change to the local-only status)

Change the online-only files and folders (marked with the icon) to local-only files (marked with the icon) to ensure they are always saved and synced on your PC.

You can use files and folders in the local-only status (marked with the icon) in the offline status as well.

1. Run the Drive Explorer program.
2. Log in to NAVER WORKS Drive.
3. Right-click the file to change to local-only in the sync folder.
4. Click 'Always Keep on This Device'.