Folders & the file explorer

From anywhere in your vault, use New folder to create a folder in the current location. Folders can be nested as deeply as you like. Open a folder and create another inside it. Folders always sort ahead of files so structure stays easy to scan.

• •Rename a folder at any time: the new name is re-encrypted on your device.
• •Delete a folder to move it (and its contents) to the Trash, where it can be restored or purged later.
• •Drop one file directly onto another to spin up a new folder containing both, handy for grouping on the fly.

The breadcrumb trail at the top of the explorer always shows where you are, starting from My Vault. Click any crumb to jump back up the tree. Breadcrumbs are also drop targets: drag a file or folder onto a crumb to move it to that level.

Switch between a grid of thumbnail cards and a sortable list. In list view, click a column header to sort by name, type, size, modified date, or Saved: how much space compression reclaimed for each file. A footer tallies the folders and files in the current location.

Folders are drawn as big, filled macOS-style folder icons, tinted with your theme’s accent color. zcrypt marks each one by name: a folder called Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Code, or Work (and dozens of other common names) gets a matching glyph, and anything unrecognized falls back to its initial letter. A password-protected or locked folder shows a padlock instead.

Files sit alongside them as macOS-style tiles: image and video files show a live thumbnail, while other types show a page tile with a colored type icon and the file’s extension. You can also pick a color theme for the app in Settings (the choice is saved per device) and the interface uses soft squircle corners on browsers that support them, with clean rounded corners everywhere else.

Use the search box to filter the current folder by name, or the type chips to narrow to images, documents, and so on. Search runs entirely on your device against decrypted names: the server never receives your query or your file names.

Folder names are encrypted client-side with a key derived from your passphrase, exactly like file contents. The server only ever stores opaque ciphertext, so your folder structure is private too.

Ready to put files in motion and lock things down?

• •Moving & organizing: drag-and-drop, move-to-folder, and bulk actions
• •Per-folder encryption: give a folder its own password
• •Viewing & previewing files. Open files without downloading
• •Encrypted folders, the feature tour