The Receive tab
Enter a code or link
The Code or link field accepts any of these:- A room code, three words such as
olive-tiger-castle. - A share link, for example
https://floe.one/#room=.... - A link from an older Floe release that used
?room=instead.
Enter in the field instead of clicking
if you prefer.
Choose where files land
Save to is where everything arrives. Leave it blank and Floe uses your Downloads folder. Click Browse to pick another one, or type a path directly. Floe creates the folder if it does not exist. Whatever you choose here is remembered for next time. You can also set it once in Settings.The transfer
Click Receive. Floe joins the room, connects to the sender, and starts writing files straight to disk. There is nothing to accept: unlikefloe receive on the command line, the
desktop app starts as soon as it connects. The moment the sender is known, the card shows what
is incoming (the file name and size, or the file count and total) before the first byte lands.
The badge at the top right shows DIRECT or RELAY once the route is known, and a progress
bar shows the current file with speed and time remaining. Cancel stops it.
When it finishes you get a Windows notification, and a transfer that fails raises one too, so
a failure behind a minimized window is never silent. Cancelling does not notify. On success the
card shows where the files went:
- For a single file, Open launches it in its usual app and Show in folder reveals it in File Explorer with the file selected.
- For several files, Show in folder opens the folder.
Nothing is ever overwritten
If a file arrives with a name you already have, Floe does not replace it. It adds a number before the extension, the same way browser downloads do:Example
Received files are marked as downloads
On Windows, Floe tags each file it writes with the mark of the web, the same tag Windows puts on a browser download. SmartScreen and Office Protected View then treat it like anything else from the internet: an executable prompts before running, and a document opens read-only until you choose to enable editing. This is deliberate. Files arrive from another person’s device, and Windows should apply its normal caution.The mark is an NTFS feature. If your save folder is on a FAT32 or exFAT drive, which most USB
sticks are, or on a network share that does not support it, the mark cannot be written and
the file arrives untagged. The file itself is saved either way.
History
Click the clock icon at the top right of the card, or pressCtrl H, for a list of what you
have sent and received.
The History view
Contribute to global stats
After a transfer completes, the receiving side reports only the number of bytes to Floe’s server, which adds it to the public counter on the homepage. File names and contents are never sent, and the sender never reports anything. It is on by default, and you can turn it off under Settings. When it is off, no request is made at all. If you point Floe at your own server, the report goes to that server rather than to floe.one.When it does not work
If Floe connects but nothing arrives, it gives up after 30 seconds and says the sender never
started sending; ask them to try again. If it never connects at all, check that both of you are
on the same signaling server. See Troubleshooting.
A transfer that fails or is cancelled partway deletes the file it was writing, so nothing
half-written is left behind under a finished-looking name. Files that completed before the
failure are kept, and a retry can use the original name rather than a numbered one.