Nimbus Secure Data Transfer Documentation

# Address Book

The Nimbus address book allows you to discover and add other Nimbus users. This will allow you to send files to the people you add to your address book.

# Adding to your address book

# Search and Add

  1. Login to Nimbus

  2. Click Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Click the Search and Add button at the top of the screen

  4. Enter the name, phone number or email address of the person/organisation that you are looking for

  5. Click Search

  6. When the search results are returned, locate the person you are looking for, then click Add

# Add Manually

In some cases, you may wish to add a Nimbus endpoint to your address book without searching. To do this, you will need the other parties Profile Identifier. Other parties may wish not to appear in the global address search for many reasons, however this will allow you to add them, should you need to.

  1. Login to Nimbus

  2. Click Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Click the Add Manually button at the top of the screen

  4. Enter the Profile Identifier into the text box

  5. Click Add To Address Book

# What to do if you can't find someone

  1. Login to Nimbus

  2. Click Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Click the Can't Find Someone? Button

  4. Fill in the form and click Continue

From here, the Nimbus team will look up the person you are trying to find. If they are on Nimbus, we'll let you know how to add them. If they aren't on Nimbus, we'll contact them to organise a FREE Nimbus account (receive only). Keep in mind, a lite account may be a better option if this is a one off transfer.

# Send a file

# Via the Address Book screen

  1. Log in to Nimbus

  2. Click on Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Locate the recipient in the table

  4. Click the aeroplane icon

  5. Click Browse\Choose Files and select the file you want to send

  6. Click Send

  7. Click OK on the confirmation message, advising your file has been uploaded and queued

# Via the folder drop method

WARNING

Only ever place a COPY of a file in the outbound folders. These files are DELETED from your computer on a successful transfer.

  1. Navigate to the Nimbus outbound directory

  2. Locate the folder for your recipient

  3. Paste the file into this folder

# View outbound and received files

  1. Log in to Nimbus

  2. Click on Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Locate the recipient in the table

  4. Click the folder tree icon

  5. The Inbound Files tab will show you files that you have received. The Outbound Files tab will show you the files you have sent, that have not yet been transferred to the recipient.

  6. (Optional) Click Download next to a file to download that file to your computer

# Remove an address book entry

WARNING

You will not be able to delete a recipient from your address book, if there are files in their inbound or outbound folders.

  1. Log in to Nimbus

  2. Click on Address Book on the left hand menu

  3. Locate the recipient in the table

  4. Click the trash can icon

  5. Confirm if you do want to delete the recipient, by clicking OK

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