What is this?

For now ... A site which makes possible for you to:
- Self host photo albums from the comfort of your computer
- Remotely access your files from your computer
Later ... we'll see.

What's good about it?

Safety
- Your photos are hosted where they belong: on your computer. We don't host them...
- ...so you are in full control of your intellectual property.
Remote access to your files
- A pretty easy to setup way to access remotely your files from your computer. No VPN or advanced setup is required.
- You always can turn off the shares, even if you are not at your computer
Privacy
- No advanced image recognition algorithms crawl your photos and bombard you with personalized content.
- We don't track your browsing habits, likes and dislikes.
- No cookies. Period. We like cakes.

Doubled network speed: once from your hosting machine to cloudy.sh server, and from there to the browser.
Your hosting computer must be online all the time.

Register to our site. (With all the hassle that comes with it, such as email verification, etc ...)
Download and install the cloudy.sh client.
Log in to the site with the client.
Start creating photo albums in the client.
There are three types of albums:
1. Public albums: Always visible from your main page: cloudy.sh/username
2. Private albums: Only visible if you log in to the site.
3. Restricted albums: A link will be generated for viewing in the client application and you can distribute this link to trusted persons.
You also can share contents of your folders from your computer There are two types of shared folders:
1. Private shared folders: Only accessible if you log in to the site.
2. Restricted shared folders: A link will be generated for viewing in the client application and you can distribute this link to trusted persons.

Here we list a few items that might get you out of trouble while installing, running and removing the cloudy.sh client application.

You can have the client installed on more than one computer. Use your registered user to log in to all of them.
Under Linux, if you are installing the snap version from snapcraft.io be aware that it runs in a sandbox and has access only to your home folder.
While using older Gnome 3 desktops, the tray icon of the application will not show. In this case just run again the application and that will bring up the old applications' window.
On some Linuxes you will need to install libcurl to have the app running properly.

We recommend to:

Keep your shares alive for a short amount of time, such as when you need to transfer a file from a computer to another and have no other meaningful possibilities, create a private shared folder, do the copying and turn off the share either from the web or from the client when done.
We recommend creating short lived folders, with only the copies of your data you want to share.
In case you need to share data with others create a dedicated shared folder, send the link, and after you have the confirmation of receipt simply delete the shared folder.
Do not share your home folder, root folder of your computer, network shares, folders containing important information, or folders where you don't have a full overview of their content.

When you uninstall the windows application sometimes it cannot delete the application files if the app is running, you can safely delete them manually.
When you uninstall the snap package via
```
sudo snap remove cloudysh-client
```
it will delete your settings and collections too.
You can delete all your collections from the system by deleting
```
<username>.cloudy.sh.sqlite
```
found in your home directory.
- For complete removal on Windows, erase the following registry key too:
```
HKCU\cloudy.sh
```
- For complete removal on Linux in case you did non install the snap package delete
```
$HOME/.config/cloudy.sh/cloudy.sh.conf
```