A system that caresfor your files.
FileES stores projects on your server, synchronises them across computers, preserves their history and helps people work together.
Ordinary folders. Your own tools. Your rules.
Filees: Initially Light, Extraordinarily Extensible Subversion
Server r1420 · alpha. Encryption and Backstage are in preparation.
Ordinary folders.
Your own tools.
Work on your files as usual. Choose which projects belong on this computer; FileES keeps their folders in sync with your server.
Documents, drawings, 3D scenes, photos. Your work stays in the programs you know.
A place for your projects.
Your rules for access.
Your server stores projects and their history. You decide where your files live, who can work on them and what to share with others.
File reservations help coordinate work on documents that cannot be merged. Computers connect to the same projects and access rules.
FileES Server · OpenBSD and Linux · alpha
Run FileES on your own OpenBSD server — or, since 2 October 2026, on Linux (Debian 13, Fedora; a build without a sandbox). The manual covers installation, configuration and administration.
Give incoming files
a place of their own.
Invite people to send materials through a browser. Files arrive on a separate intake shelf, where you can review them and decide which to bring into the project.
The sender needs an invitation, not a desktop application or editing access to your project.
When a spy helps.
Your phone can bring materials from the field into a shared project, and let you browse and download files you have access to. You choose what to send and where it goes.
A paired helper with limited permissions. Photos and materials join the project through a designated upload area.
Android companion · public distribution in preparation
Your files have a history.
Browse saved states of a project. Find the version from before a change, inspect the files as they were then and recover what you need to a separate location.
The history lives on the server. Recovering a copy leaves your current working files in place.
Trust has its limits.
We are planning optional client-side encryption for FileES projects. The goal is to keep their content private even from the operator of the storage server.
Paranoid Android is our nickname for the encryption mode.
In preparation · not yet availableClose the project.
Keep the way back.
A planned archive in storage you choose. Its catalogue is meant to keep the project recognisable and its files recoverable even after the original repository and hosting are gone.
The goal: a project you can still explore, with a clear path to recovering its files.
In preparation · not yet available
