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Spacedrive


  Your data should not have to live on somebody else's computer to be useful.



  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  



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 [!IMPORTANT]
 Spacedrive 2.0 Beta is planned for November 15, 2026.

 Beta commits to Spacedrive's data model and to preserving your library as
 it evolves. The release makes self-owned storage practical across
 your devices. It brings portable source indexes, private remote access, mounts, history,
 extensions, and one API for people and software.

 Nightly CLI and daemon builds are available now from the
 nightly release.
 They are unsigned, move with every push to main, and can break, so keep
 backups of any library you point them at. See
 Install a nightly. The beta will appear on the
 releases page when
 it ships.

Spacedrive is open personal data infrastructure. It turns the storage you
control into one private filesystem across your devices, drives, servers, and
the clouds you choose.

Bring your data home without giving up search, protection, intelligence,
sharing, or access from anywhere. No hosted account, no vendor control plane,
no telemetry.


  


 Own where your data lives

Cloud services made it feel normal for your files to live on someone else's
computer. Personal files
and behavioral data piled up on infrastructure whose security, policies, and
future you do not control. Automated attacks increase
the scale of that exposure. AI increases the value of accumulated data for
training, inference, and profiling.

Owning the drive is the easy part. You still need to find files, reach them
from another device, know what is backed up, recover earlier states, share on
your terms, and notice when something changes.

Spacedrive does all of that while you decide where the bytes and metadata
live. Local disks, removable media, NAS datasets, private servers, and
offline archives are first-class homes. Cloud services remain optional sources
and destinations.

Read the Product Direction for the complete
product boundary.

 One filesystem, every source

A source can be a folder, a complete drive, a dataset on your NAS, another
Spacedrive node, a cloud bucket, or an external service. Every source uses the
same record shape and the same operations.

Each source has a portable store with two kinds of knowledge: a generation
that can be refreshed while the origin is available, and durable assertions
that cannot be reconstructed from the files alone. Disconnect a drive and its
catalog remains searchable. Move a source to another machine and its metadata
can travel with it.

- A live index. Watchers keep names, sizes, timestamps, and content state
  current, so opening a folder never rescans the disk.
- Search across boundaries. One search runs across local, remote, cloud,
  and adapter sources.
- Stable identity. Records survive moves. BLAKE3 content identities connect
  copies of the same bytes across sources and devices.
- Fast duplicate detecti

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Latest release

[!IMPORTANT]
 We regret to inform our valued Spacedrive community that we must temporarily pause our development roadmap beyond our latest update. Due to current funding constraints and related challenges, we cannot deliver new features or updates for the foreseeable future.
 
 While this was a tough decision, our team remains committed to Spacedrive's vision and will explore options to resume development when circumstances allow. We deeply appreciate your understanding and continued support during this challenging period.
 
 The Spacedrive Team

 What's Changed
 Added Windows Control