Cloud
10 GB of Video Tracker cloud with Pro: downloads synced between your devices, three lists, space and deleting files.
The cloud is your storage on the Video Tracker servers: every Pro user gets 10 GB. Finished downloads go to the cloud and show up in Downloads on all your devices marked “In the cloud”. You need to sign in.
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, Safari, and the cabinet on the site · Plan: Pro
Sync: automatically or manually
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, and Safari · Plan: Pro
How files get to the cloud is chosen in Settings, Account section, Cloud sync:
- Automatically (the default) — every finished download is uploaded to the cloud by itself and appears on your other devices in Downloads marked “In the cloud”.
- Manually — only what you send goes to the cloud. A finished file has To the cloud, a cloud file has Download to this device, and Sync refreshes the list.
The “To the cloud” switch
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, and Safari · Plan: Pro
Every download that is not in the cloud yet has a To the cloud switch:
- While the file is downloading, the switch is on with Automatically and off with Manually. You can change it for this download: turned off, the finished file stays on the device only; turned on, it goes to the cloud by itself.
- On a finished file, the switch starts the upload to the cloud.
- Your choice stays after the app restarts.
Stop and continue
While “Uploading to the cloud: 45%” is shown, turn the switch off — the upload stops at once, the file on the device is untouched, and the row says “To the cloud: stopped at 45%”. It does not resume by itself after a restart.
Turn the switch on again — the upload continues from what the cloud has already received, not from the start. Retry after a failure continues too. A started upload takes space in the cloud and waits for a day; after that it starts over.
Cancel the upload to the cloud deletes the started part from the cloud and frees the space; the file on the device stays.
The “In the cloud” mark
A file that is already in the cloud has a cloud icon and “In the cloud” — on Free too: files stay in the cloud after Pro ends. While the file is uploading, you see “Uploading to the cloud: 45%” instead.
On Free the To the cloud switch is not hidden: tapping it shows “This needs Pro.” and Buy Pro (where Pro can be bought). More in Plans.
Three lists: “All”, “On this device”, “In the cloud”
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, and Safari · Plan: Pro
Downloads has a switch between lists; the chosen one is remembered.
| List | What is in it |
|---|---|
| On this device | finished downloads and files downloaded from the cloud to this device |
| In the cloud | cloud files from this and other devices; at the top — “Cloud: 3.2 GB of 10 GB”, above the files — uploads to the cloud that are running, paused or failed |
| All | everything at once: running downloads, files of this device and of the cloud |
One file is one row: a file that is both here and in the cloud is shown once, marked “On this device” and “In the cloud”. Newest first, running downloads above finished ones.
- A cloud file that is not here has its size, Download to this device, Share a link, Delete from the cloud.
- A file on this device has Open and Show in folder (and the cloud actions if it is in the cloud too).
- A file downloaded from the cloud and later deleted from the cloud stays in On this device — without the “In the cloud” mark.
In Safari, a file downloaded from the cloud is saved by the browser itself, and the extension does not know where it is: such a file stays an “In the cloud” row, and after it is deleted from the cloud it disappears from the lists.
Download everything from the cloud
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, and Safari · Plan: Pro
Cloud files do not take space on your device by themselves — only you download them to it.
- Open the In the cloud list.
- Press Download all to this device — or Download to this device on one file.
- Files download one after another: each shows its own percentage, the total is at the top — “Downloading 2 of 5: 45%”.
Cancel stops what is not downloaded yet; finished files stay. If a file fails, it shows an error with Error details and Retry, and the others keep downloading. A downloaded file appears in On this device right away, with Open and Show in folder.
Cloud space
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, Safari, and the cabinet on the site · Plan: Pro
How much is used is shown in Settings and in the In the cloud list: “Cloud: 3.2 GB of 10 GB”.
- 80% or more is used — you get a “The cloud is almost full” notification, and Downloads shows a bar with it and Show the cloud files. Delete what you no longer need from the cloud: the files stay on your devices.
- A file does not fit — it stays on the device, and the “The cloud is full” notification suggests deleting files.
- An unfinished upload takes space too; an abandoned one (not finished within a day) frees it by itself.
Delete from the cloud
Where: Mac, Android, Chrome, Safari, and the cabinet on the site · Plan: Free and Pro
Every file in the cloud has Delete from the cloud — in the app and in the cabinet, on Free too. Before deleting you see that the space is freed and the copies on your devices stay. After that the “In the cloud” mark is gone and the To the cloud switch is off.
Deleting a download from the device leaves the file in the cloud.
In the extension, after Delete from the cloud the download has no To the cloud switch: the extension no longer has its own copy of the file, and the browser does not let it read files from the downloads folder.
When Pro ends
The app works as Free again: one download at a time, and the cloud is download and delete only; uploading to it is off. Your files in the cloud stay. You get a notification: “Pro has ended: one download at a time again; the cloud is download and delete only.” What the server has already accepted (Download to the cloud, downloads in the cabinet) it finishes — one at a time.
The cloud on a TV
Where: Android TV · Plan: Pro
On Android TV, Video Tracker does not download videos: it shows your cloud files and plays them as a stream. How to install and sign in — Android TV.
See also
- Download to the cloud — the server downloads, your device can be off.
- Sharing — a link to a cloud file for 24 hours.