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Upload local files and folders

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Available with these plans:

Starter

Basic

Pro

Enterprise

100 GB

5 TB

15 TB

15 TB + purchased seats x 30 GB

The above storage capacity is shared by Lark Docs, Messenger, Mail, and Minutes. To upgrade your Lark Plan or for more information, contact Support or your Customer Success Manager. The Lark Basic plan supports only specific countries and regions.

I. Intro

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Availability: My Document Library is in beta testing and is not yet available to all users.

You can upload local files and folders to Lark Docs. Lark Docs supports a wide range of formats including .doc, .ppt, and .pdf, which you can preview before opening. You can also convert your local documents, spreadsheets, and more into Lark documents.

By selecting the upload location, you can save local files to My Space (My Folders), folders, Wiki, or My Document Library. After uploading, you can also move the files to other locations if needed.

Note: The storage location of local files or folders may vary on different devices.

II. Steps

Upload files

Upload files from chats

If you receive a file while using the desktop app, click the Save to My Space icon on the file card. This will save the file to Lark Docs > My Space (My Folders).

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Upload to the Lark Docs homepage

Click Docs in the left navigation bar of the desktop app, or go to larksuite.com/drive/home to open Docs in your browser.

There are two methods you can use to upload files:

Method 1: Drag files or folders to the Lark Docs homepage.

Method 2: Hover over Upload and then select Upload Files or Upload Folders. Select the files or folders you wish to upload

Note:

You can use the same methods above to upload files to My Space (My Folders) or individual folders.

You need edit permission for a folder before you can upload content into it.

Upload to Wiki or My Document Library

Click Docs in the left navigation bar of the desktop app, or go to larksuite.com/drive/home to open Docs in your browser.

Click Wiki in the sidebar to enter the target Wiki, and find the location where you need to add a page in the Wiki table of contents. Alternatively, find the target location in My Document Library in the sidebar.

Hover over a page title, click the + icon, and select Upload or Import > Upload Local File.

Note:

You need to have edit permission for the target location.

You cannot upload folders to Wiki or My Document Library.

For more information on uploading to Wiki or My Document Library, see Add pages to a wiki space and Manage My Document Library.

View uploaded files

After uploading a file, you can preview the content of certain file formats online and view information such as the number of visitors and the number of visits.

Preview files

The supported file types and formats for preview are as follows:

Type	File format
Document	doc, docx, dot, dotx, txt, rtf, pages, key
Programming	C, JSON, JAVA
Spreadsheet	xls, xlsx, xlsm, csv, numbers
Presentation	ppt, pptx, pps, ppsx, pot, keynote
PDF	.pdf
Image	png, jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, sketch, psd, psb, heic, heif
Video	mp4, m4v, mov, avi, flv, mkv, wmv
Audio	mp3, aac, ogg, wav, flac
Compressed file	tar, gz, bz2, zip, rar, 7z

Note:

You can only preview the first page/sheet/slide of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote files.

When you preview uploaded documents, sheets, slides, and other content, the way they look might not be the same as their original formatting and layout.

For preview formats of files inserted into documents as attachments, see Size and format requirements for uploading or previewing files.

View file details

Open the file and click the ··· icon > Document Details to view the owner, creation time, size, number of views/viewers, and other details.

III. Related

Import local files as Lark documents

View, update, restore, or delete file versions

Move documents or folders

Storage space, import, and Trash limits FAQs

IV. FAQs

How do I stop the uploading process?

During the uploading process, you can see the upload progress in the lower-right corner of the page where the upload was initiated.

If you need to pause the upload, Click Pause all. You can only pause all upload tasks. Click Continue to resume all upload tasks. If you need to resume the upload task of a specific file, click on the Retry icon to the right of the file.

If you need to terminate the upload process, hover over a file being uploaded and click the Cancel icon.

Once the file has been uploaded, it cannot be cancelled. You will need to delete the uploaded file in its storage location manually.

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Where are the uploaded files and folders stored?

When initiating an upload through a chat, in My Space (My Folders), or Shared Space (Shared Folders), the file will be automatically saved to My Space (My Folders).

When initiating an upload in Wiki or My Document Library, the file is saved in the location where you click the + icon.

When uploading is initiated elsewhere, you can choose where to upload.

How do I edit uploaded files?

Direct editing of uploaded files is not supported. Some formats can be edited after being converted to Lark documents.

Can files uploaded to Lark Docs be converted to Lark documents?

You can convert some file formats to Lark documents. To learn more, see Import local files as Lark documents.

Is there a limit to the number of files uploaded at one time?

For My Space (My Folders), see Storage space, import, and Trash limits FAQs.

For Wiki, see Wiki limits FAQs.

What's the maximum file size that can be uploaded?

It depends on your plan: 250 MB for the Starter plan, 50 GB for the Pro plan, and 100 GB for the Enterprise plan. To learn more, see Size and format requirements for uploading or previewing files.

What should I do if I am notified that the file is too large?

When the size of the file exceeds the limit, it cannot be directly uploaded to Lark Docs. Try to split the content of the local file into multiple files and upload them. For specific limits, see "What is the maximum file size that can be uploaded?" in Upload local files and folders.

If the file does not exceed the limit and still prompts that it cannot be uploaded, confirm that you're attempting to upload the file using the steps in this article, and did not select Import as New Docs in Lark Docs. The limit for importing files as new Lark documents is lower than that of uploading files.

What is the difference between uploading files and importing files as new Lark documents?

Uploading files:

Upload local files to Lark in their original format.

There are no format restrictions for uploading files.

Some file formats support online preview of the content.

Importing as new Lark documents:

Upload local files and convert them into Lark documents (docs, sheets, bases, mindnotes, slides)

There are format restrictions for importing files. To learn more, see Import local files as Lark documents.

How can I edit a read-only Excel file?

Open the uploaded Excel file, click the ··· icon in the upper-right corner and select Convert to Sheet. After the file is converted, you can edit it.

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