Cloud storage & sync

Your home directory in NextOS can sync to the cloud storage you already use, so the same files show up on every device you sign in from.

Google Drive

Signing in with Google connects Drive automatically - there's no separate setup step. Your files sync on a regular interval on the Free plan, or in near real time on a paid plan, where you can also turn the interval down to as fast as once a minute.

Other providers

Beyond Google Drive, you can connect Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint, Dropbox, Box, an S3-compatible bucket (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi), or any WebDAV server from Settings > Cloud storage. Each connection syncs a chosen local folder two ways, and pushes changes to you as soon as the provider tells us about them rather than waiting for the next poll, where the provider supports it.

Local folders

You can also connect a folder from the computer you're sitting at: open Finder, choose Connect a folder…, and pick it in your browser's folder picker. The folder appears at ~/Volumes/<name>, where every part of NextOS can use it - Finder, the Terminal, VS Code and your agents all see the same files.

Nothing is copied and nothing is uploaded. Reads and writes go straight to the folder on your disk through the permission your browser granted, so a file you save in NextOS is on your machine the moment it's written, and a file you drop into the folder on your desktop shows up here.

Browsers drop folder permissions when the page reloads, so after restarting your browser a connected folder shows as needing reconnection - click it in Finder's sidebar and grant access again. Until you do, the folder simply isn't mounted; nothing else about your account changes.

How conflicts are handled

When the same file changes in two places before they've had a chance to sync, NextOS merges the change automatically wherever it safely can. When it can't - two genuinely different edits to the same file - both versions are kept: the sync keeps your original in place and saves the other side as a conflict copy, so nothing is ever silently lost or silently overwritten.

Credentials

A cloud storage connection's credentials are stored encrypted, never in plain text, and are used only to sync the folder you've chosen - nothing else in your account is shared with a storage provider.

What's next

• See what data leaves your browser and how it's protected.
• Read about Drive and MCP together if you want to reach your files from your own code.