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Local Drive
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Introduction

What Local Drive is, what it is not, and how the pieces fit.

Local Drive is a private alternative to Google Drive that runs on a machine you own. One Go binary serves the API and stores files on a local disk, a network share, or an external drive you plug in. Any number of Flutter clients, phone, tablet, desktop, or browser, point at that one server and talk to it over a plain REST and WebSocket API.

What it is

  • A file server with folders, versions, trash, search, and sharing.
  • Multi user, with real permissions enforced server side on every request.
  • Self hosted first: no account with anyone, no domain required, no cloud dependency of any kind.

What it is not

  • Not a sync client. Local Drive stores files on a server and hands them to clients on request. Offline availability is a per device choice, not a whole disk mirror.
  • Not a peer to peer file beam. Sharing goes through the server so the other person keeps access next week from a different device, which is the entire point of sharing through a Drive rather than over Bluetooth.
  • Not a place to drop files into by hand. Storage is content addressed, so writing into the backing directory from outside the app is unsupported, the same way you cannot add a file to Google Drive by writing into its bucket.

The pieces

Piece What it does
server The Go backend. One binary, several modes.
localdrive The Flutter client. One codebase, every platform.
docs This documentation.

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