BLOON basics

• Bloons
  • Like project channels, where participants share data & discuss their work.
• Spaces
  • Virtual workspaces that may house multiple bloons.
• Items
  • Files. Folders. URLs. BLOON docs.

BLOON highlights

• Sharelinks
  • Give log-in-free access to an item.
• Copies online
  • See who has how many copies of a file "online".
• BLOON stubs
  • Placeholders show where an item sits in Finder or Explorer w/o occupying disk space.
• Sharelinked folders: Content display mode
  • Display documents as webpages, and folders as websites.
• Delta syncing
  • Resyncing for large files is optimized for speed and efficiency.

Settings

• Sync settings
  • Sync everything, or conditionally exclude big files.
• Sync settings: Unconditional syncing
• Sync settings: Conditional syncing
• Bloon privacy
• Bloon privacy: Open bloons
• Bloon privacy: Secret bloons
• Where new spaces are stored
• Default sync settings
• Purging archived files
• Purging vs archiving underlying files when items in limbo are erased
• Space folder settings: Advanced mode
  • Split storage for one space across multiple drives.

Glossary

• Item ID links
  • A constant, global "ID" for items.
• Deleting the local copy of a file
  • Free up local disk space w/o affecting copies on other machines.
• BLOON docs
• Bloon folders
• Space folders
• Bloon member roles
• Space member roles
• Guests
• Sync-State Badges
• Limbo
• File extinction

Navigation

• Folder tree
• Right pane
• Sidebar
• List of open bloons
• Limbo control panel
• Space settings
• Bloon settings
• Basic settings
• Advanced settings

System specifics

• File extinction with newly copied items
• Moving items between bloons that have different sets of members
• When the right pane does not correspond to a specific folder
• Erasing items in limbo
• Converting a tag to a folder
• When you quit a bloon
• What happens when a bloon is deleted
• Deleting a bloon: removing members
• When you quit a space
• What happens when a space is deleted
• Deleting a space: removing members and guests
• "Removing" members from a bloon
• Moving a bloon between spaces
• When files and folders won't import
• When files and folders can't be moved
• Smart fix

How to ...

• Adding items from within BLOON
• Importing files, folders, and URLs by dragging