Share

Share creates a public link for a file, using the remote's own sharing feature, and copies it to the clipboard. Anyone with the link can open the file without an account. Share has no window: it is an action on a file in the Commander.

Share a file

Open the Commander from the toolbar ("Commander", or "Browse" followed by a remote's name) and go to the file. Moving the pointer over its row reveals the actions on the right: download, share, rename, delete. Click the share icon. Rclone UI asks the remote for a public link and, when it arrives, copies it and shows a "Link Copied" notification. The link is in your clipboard; paste it wherever you need it.

Which remotes support it

Not every storage service can create public links, and Rclone UI only shows the share icon where the remote reports that it can. If the icon is missing on a remote, that remote has no sharing feature rclone can use, and there is no setting to enable it. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, pCloud and many others support it; S3 and Azure Blob produce signed links that expire. The full list is on rclone link.

Good to know

• The link is the provider's own. It looks and behaves like a link made in the provider's web app, and it is managed there too: to revoke it, remove the sharing in the provider's own interface.
• Rclone UI does not set an expiry. Providers that support expiring links can be driven with rclone's link command instead.