The inter-office problem
A studio with a Pune office and a Mumbai office, a practice with a head office and a site cabin, a company with a production unit in one country and a finishing unit in another: work moves between locations every day, and the tools usually in place were designed for one building. A VPN and a shared drive over TCP crawl over any real distance; cloud sync tools designed for documents choke on multi-gigabyte files and thousands of frames; and the manual answer, someone uploading a folder at the end of the day, depends on that someone.
A watch folder at the sending end
Install the Boita desktop app on a machine at the sending office and point a watch folder at the folder where finished work lands, mapped to a folder in your workspace. New and changed files upload on their own; a file is sent only after it has stopped changing for a set time, so something still being written never ships. New files are grouped into transfers rather than one session per file, state is kept locally so a restart does not re-scan the tree, and the queue runs from the menu bar or tray with the window closed.
Transfers run through an accelerated transfer engine over UDP with its own rate control, at your line rate regardless of the distance between offices, as parallel sessions sized to your plan. The desktop app resumes a dropped link where it stopped and completed files are never re-sent. Two watch folders come with Pro; Scale has no limit.
The receiving end
Members at the receiving office sign in to the same workspace and see the folder fill up in the Drive, with each file’s size, uploader and the checksum the server recorded on arrival. They download what they need through the desktop app at full speed, with the same resume. A download watch folder at the receiving office, on a desktop or through the headless Linux agent on the NAS, makes anything landing in the workspace folder appear locally within a minute, hands-free in both directions.
Each watch folder is one-way and the pair is not a two-way sync: a deletion at one office is not mirrored to the other.
Fits a company, not just a project
Both offices are members of one workspace with owner, admin and member roles, two-factor authentication and an audit log of who uploaded, downloaded and deleted what. Storage usage is shown on every page with an email before you reach your quota. Allowed hours per watch folder and a workspace bandwidth window, enforced by the transfer server, let the inter-office copy run overnight; include and exclude patterns are coming. Folder permissions on Scale and above keep each site to its own folders.
Plans are flat monthly amounts sized by storage, retention and seats, with no per-GB fees, so a daily flow between two sites costs the same on a busy week as a quiet one. Enterprise workspaces can auto-deliver from a workspace folder to their own transfer server or S3-compatible bucket.
- Watch folder at the sending office; files ship as they finish
- Line-rate transfers between sites; desktop-app resume; nothing re-sent
- Download watch folder or Linux agent fills the receiving NAS
- Allowed hours and bandwidth windows; two-way sync coming
- Flat plans; roles, two-factor authentication and audit log for the whole company