Foldr V4 Updates for February

Foldr has introduced a new content placeholder animation in for the web-based app. Click into a folder and be greeted with a fabulous shimmer effect. 

As a bonus, scrolling speed (up and down) to browse files and folders have been much-improved. 

Foldr can now automatically optimise images. This will use smart compression techniques to reduce the file size of images (JPG or PNG) on upload with little noticeable decrease in quality. Ideal for workers onsite sending back large photos to HQ, using their phone camera the pictures could be 5-6MB, letting Foldr squish the files down to a few hundred KB will save time and space.

This feature has to be enabled on a per share basis within Foldr Settings >> Shares >> Tools tab.

Local user accounts allow an organisation to use Foldr without the need for supporting infrastructure (such as Active Directory) to authenticate users.  This opens up the possibility to use the file access, sharing and security benefits of Foldr, without also having to provide and support a complex backend server environment. This opens up new opportunities to support even more customers than before.

User accounts, and groups to manage them by, can be created directly within the Foldr Settings web admin UI. Give it a go!

In a multi-tenant system, the search domain suffix can now be easily be configured on a per-tenant basis under the tadmin account.

Admins (and users) can now set what devices they trust for 2FA. A good use case would be a school wanting to trust iPads (because they’re managed by an MDM solution) but not clients running Windows 10 because they were not managed so securely. If you do not trust a device, you will be asked to perform 2FA every time you sign in.