# File transfers
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/release/transfers

WeTransfer-style file sharing. Send files (uploaded or straight from a song's cloud files) via an expiring link.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Transfers let you share files with anyone via a simple, expiring download link
like WeTransfer, but built into Aden. Add files, optionally set a title,
message, password and custom link, and share the result with people or with a
connected team.

## Using it [#using-it]

1. Go to **Transfers → New Transfer** for your team.
2. Add files two ways (you can mix both in one transfer):
   * **Upload**: drag & drop files onto the dropzone, or use **Upload** to
     pick from your computer.
   * **From a song**: open the **Upload** chevron, choose **From a song**,
     search for one of your songs, and pick it. Every file already stored
     for that song (each version's file plus any extra formats) is added
     instantly, with no re-upload.
3. Remove any file you don't want with the ✕ on its row.
4. Optionally set a title, a password, a custom link, and a message.
5. Optionally pick recipients under **Add recipients**: your team members and
   the people credited on your songs, or any email address you type in.
6. Click **Create transfer**. You can click it while files are still uploading:
   the transfer is sent the moment the last one lands. Copy the link or open it,
   and it stays live until it expires (the number of days depends on your plan).

### Asking someone to send *you* files [#asking-someone-to-send-you-files]

**Request files** lives in the **New transfer** chevron on the list page, and
in the **Upload** chevron on the new-transfer page. It makes a public upload
link anyone can drop files into, no account needed. Open requests are listed
among your transfers with a dashed card, so you can copy the link, show its QR
code, stop it accepting files, or delete it without opening a dialog. Anything
sent to a request arrives as a received transfer.

### Send files you already have in Aden [#send-files-you-already-have-in-aden]

On your team's **Documents** page, tick the files you want and hit the send icon
in the selection toolbar. The create-transfer form opens with those files
already attached: nothing is downloaded or re-uploaded. The folder you're
browsing lives in the URL, so you can link someone straight to it.

### Managing a transfer after you sent it [#managing-a-transfer-after-you-sent-it]

Click a transfer's title (or **… → Manage transfer**) to open its page. There
you can:

* **Edit** the title, message, custom link and expiry date, and switch password
  protection on or off.
* **Add people**, or remove a recipient. Removing someone takes it out of their
  shared list, but the link itself keeps working, so set a password if you need
  to really lock it down.
* **Browse every file**: search the list, preview an image, video, audio file or
  PDF in a side sheet, tick files and download just those as a zip.
* **Play the audio files**: press play on a row and it goes into the player
  queue like any track, so it keeps playing while you move around Aden, and the
  player bar pauses, scrubs and skips it. The queue entry links back to the
  transfer.
* **See who downloaded** what and when.

### Receiving a transfer [#receiving-a-transfer]

On a transfer link you opened:

* Search the file list, and tick individual files to download only those.
* Click the preview icon to open a file in a sheet and page through the rest.
* Press play on an audio file: it plays in the player bar at the bottom, so it
  keeps going while you scroll or open another page.
* If you're signed in, **Import** asks where the files should go, which team,
  and whether each file becomes a new track or a new version of an existing
  track.