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SFTP Drop-box

The SFTP Drop-box gives your organization a dedicated SFTP login for delivering files to Zedoc in bulk. It is the easiest way to move a large number of files — a full backlist, a season of audiobooks — without uploading them one by one through the browser.

Anything you upload lands in your organization’s own storage area, and only your organization can see it.

Not the same as an SFTP connection. A connection lets Zedoc reach your external server. The Drop-box is the reverse: Zedoc hosts the server, and you push files to Zedoc.

Enabling the Drop-box

An organization admin can enable it under Settings → Connections → SFTP Drop-box. Enabling generates your credentials:

  • Host — the server address to connect to
  • Username — fixed for your organization
  • Password — shown only once, right after enabling. Store it in a password manager.

If the password is lost, an admin can rotate it from the same page: a new password is generated (and shown once), and the old one stops working immediately.

Logging in with an SSH key

Instead of (or in addition to) the password, you can log in with an SSH key. Add your public key under Authorized SSH keys on the Drop-box settings page — the matching private key stays on your computer and is never shared with Zedoc. Both login methods work at the same time, so a rotated password never locks out key-based logins.

Uploading files

Connect with any SFTP client — FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck, or the sftp command line — using the host and username from the settings page. Then upload as you would to any file server:

  • Drag and drop entire folders; the folder structure is preserved
  • Organize files into subfolders however suits your catalog
  • Re-run interrupted transfers; already-uploaded files are simply replaced

Files are stored safely as soon as each transfer completes. There is no size ceiling suited to normal publishing workflows — multi-gigabyte audio files are fine.

Using the uploaded files

Files delivered through the Drop-box become part of your organization’s storage and will be available to browse and use in your pipelines. Your uploads are kept until you delete them — delivering files today and processing them later is exactly what the Drop-box is for.