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Uploading files - Amazon WorkDocs

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Notice: New customer sign-ups and account upgrades are no longer available for Amazon WorkDocs. Learn about migration steps here: How to migrate data from Amazon WorkDocs.

Uploading files

The following steps explain how use the Amazon WorkDocs web client to upload files.

When you use the Amazon WorkDocs web client up upload files, you use File Explorer in Windows or Finder in macOS to select and open the files. You can also drag them from File Explorer or Finder and drop them on the WorkDocs screen.

To upload files
  1. In the web client, choose Upload, and then Upload files.

    A menu labeled Upload showing an Upload command.

    If you run Wndows, File Explorer appears. If you run macOS, Finder appears.

  2. In File Explorer or Finder, select the files that you want to upload, then choose Open.

  3. In the dialog box that appears, select the files that you want to upload, and then choose Open.

To upload files by dragging and dropping
  1. As needed, open the folder that you want to store the files in.

  2. In the web client, choose Upload, and then Upload files.

    A menu labeled Upload showing an Upload command.
  3. In File Explorer or Finder, select the files that you want to upload, and then drag them to the WorkDocs screen.

Note

The following steps assume that you have a local file with multiple versions.

To upload a new version of a file
  1. In the web client, open the file.

  2. Open the Actions menu and choose Upload new version.

  3. In File Explorer or Finder, select the version, then choose Open.

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