File storage and sharing made simple!

All existing solutions have tackled the problem of file sharing and collaboration in two ways:

1. A user can share his folder or files with other users
2. If there are multiple users, they are added into a group, and then the resource is shared with this group

FileAgo is an attempt to improve upon the latter. Some solutions call it "Team Folders" (and only available in premium plans), whereas others refer to it as "Group Folders", but the concept remains the same - you create a folder which is shared with a group of users.

The task of an administrator is then to manage the groups, as well as the folders that these groups have access to. This can become complex and tedious if the number of groups or group folders increase over time, and if members switch to different groups frequently.

And then there are restrictions on sharing, like if you have already shared a folder, then it is not possible to share its sub-folder. (WHAT?!) Or, it is not possible to block a team member from accessing one of the sub-folders of a team folder containing critical data which only a few members should have access to!

Luckily, we made FileAgo in order to fix these problems.

We got rid of the "Team Folders" thing altogether. Yes, that's right.

FileAgo treats groups as its first-class citizens. Groups are on par with normal users, which means that a group has almost every feature that a user will possibly have - like disk quota limits, a dedicated Trash directory, even its own separate workspace!

An administrator can grant 'Group Admin' privilege to one or more members of a group, who can then add or remove other users to that group. The responsibility to manage the group is being delegated to its Group Admins which simplifies the overall workflow in a big way.

All files in a group's workspace are owned by the group, so when a group member wish to access those files, he/she has to simply switch from his/her personal space into the group's workspace.

There are no restrictions for collaboration in FileAgo (technology-wise). With waterfall style permissions that is implemented in FileAgo's core logic, a child folder inherits its parent folder's permissions, and those permissions can be further overridden again if required. As long as a user has the necessary permissions, he can configure complex security rules and ensure that other users only get access to the resources that they are meant to access.