Pixeldrain has an experimental filesystem feature. It can be accessed from any account with a paid subscription (Patreon or Prepaid) by going to pixeldrain.com/d/me.
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Every time you create or remove a file your account’s storage usage will be updated. This can take some time. If your account’s storage is full you will no longer be able to upload anything to the filesystem.
The Pro subscription has a storage limit of 2 TB. It doesn’t show on the profile page because it’s calculated differently from the other plans, but it is there.
For Prepaid plans the storage is charged at €4 per TB per month. You can view your usage in the transaction log.
Downloads from the filesystem are charged at €2 / TB for prepaid. With Patreon plans there’s a monthly limit. If you turn bandwidth sharing off in the account settings then other people will use the daily download limit. Otherwise they will use your account’s transfer limit.
The pixeldrain filesystem uses the same download limit as the regular files on pixeldrain. The only difference is that the limit is 1 GB higher. So while you can freely download up to 5 GB per day from regular pixeldrain files, you can download up to 6 GB per day from the filesystem. When the limit is exceeded the speed is limited to 1 MiB/s like usual.
If you want to embed pixeldrain files on your own website, distribute direct download links or share files that are larger than the download limit then you should turn the ‘Bandwidth sharing’ option on. Otherwise people will have trouble downloading your files.
Files in the the filesystem are private by default. Only you can access them
from your own account. Files and directories can be shared by clicking the
Share
button in the toolbar while inside the directory, or by clicking the
pencil icon next to the directory in the file viewer.
Shared directories and files will have a shared icon next to them in the file
manager. Clicking that icon will open the shared link. You can also copy the
shared link directly with the Copy link
button in the toolbar.
If a shared file gets reported for breaking the content policy your ability to share files from your account may be taken away.
Here is a quick overview of the filesystem’s limits:
When traversing a path, pixeldrain requests one directory at a time from the database. This means that filesystem operations will get slower the more nested directories you have. Keep that in mind when organizing your files.
It’s possible to import files from your account’s file list to your filesystem.
To do so, navigate to a directory in your filesystem, click the Import files
button on the toolbar. It’s on the right side, between the Create directory
and Edit files
buttons. You will be prompted to select the files you would
like to import. After selecting the files click Add
and they will be added to
your filesystem.
There are two ways to access your filesystem from outside the web interface.
Rclone has built in support for the pixeldrain filesystem starting with version 1.68. Check out the rclone website for documentation. You can install rclone from the site. It’s also available in most software repositories.
A few example use cases of rclone are:
To automatically mount your pixeldrain when logging in to your Linux OS you can use a systemd user service.
First you must configure an rclone remote with the name Pixeldrain
. This will
be the name of the network drive as well. You can choose a different name if you
want to.
rclone config
to start the interactive configuration prompt.n
to create a new remote.Pixeldrain
, or a different name if you want.pixeldrain
.Create a text file with these contents at the path
$HOME/.config/systemd/user/rclone@.service
. You may have to create the parent
directories yourself.
[Unit]
Description=rclone: Remote FUSE filesystem for cloud storage config %i
Documentation=man:rclone(1)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
AssertPathIsDirectory=%h/%i
StartLimitBurst=5
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=rclone mount \
--config=%h/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--vfs-cache-max-age 720h \
--vfs-cache-min-free-space 50G \
--vfs-write-back 10s \
--dir-cache-time 10m \
--log-level INFO \
--transfers 10 \
--file-perms 0700 \
--dir-perms 0700 \
%i: %h/%i
KillSignal=SIGINT
TimeoutStartSec=600
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Once the file is in place, reload your systemd config with systemctl --user
daemon-reload
. Then you can start your network drive with systemctl --user
enable rclone@Pixeldrain.service --now
, where Pixeldrain
is the name of your
rclone remote (replace with the name of your own remote if necessary). This will
create a directory called Pixeldrain
in your home which will contain your
network drive. If it doesn’t work, you can check the logs with journalctl
--user -u rclone@Pixeldrain
.
If you can’t get it to work you can always ask for help on our Discord community.
The filesystem also supports FTPS, both anonymously and with an account. The FTP
server is hosted at pixeldrain.com
on port 990
. The encryption mode used is
Implicit FTP over TLS
. Here is an example configuration in FileZilla:
There are two different ways to log in to the FTP server:
To connect to your personal directory you need to enter your account’s username
as username in the FTP client. The password needs to be an API key from the API
keys page. If you connect now you will be able to access your
personal directory (called /me
). Here you can upload and download to your
heart’s desire.
To access a shared directory in read-only mode you need to enter the directory
ID as username in your FTP client. The directory ID can be found at the end of a
shared directory URL. Example: https://pixeldrain.com/d/abcd1234
, in this case
abcd1234
is the directory ID. The ID will always be 8 characters long and is
case-sensitive. The password must be left empty