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Your account settings

Account settings is where you change your own details, your password and the way you sign in. It is a different place from the control panel, which is for administrators.

To open it, click your name in the bottom left corner of the interface and choose Account settings. Back to your files returns you to the file list.

The page has these sections:

Which of them you see depends on what your administrator allows your account to change. If a section described here is missing, your account is not allowed to change that.

The language of the interface and the way the file list looks are not set here. They are chosen by the administrator for the whole installation.

Basic details

Notifications for one particular folder are set elsewhere, by right-clicking that folder. See The e-mail notification system.

E-mail address

Changing your e-mail address takes two steps, because FileRun checks that the new address really reaches you.

  1. Type the new address and click Proceed. A verification code is sent to the new address.
  2. Type the code and click Proceed again.

The code is valid for ten minutes. If you get it wrong five times, the process starts over. An address already used by another account is refused.

FileRun asks you to confirm who you are before letting you open this page.

Password

Type the new password and save.

Two things are worth knowing:

If your account signs in through your organization's login system rather than with a FileRun password, this section is not shown.

Two-factor authentication

Passkeys, Authenticator app and Recovery codes are grouped here. They decide what FileRun asks for besides your password when you sign in.

What each method does, in which order FileRun asks for them, and what to do if you lose access, is described on Two-factor authentication.

Sessions

The browsers currently signed in to your account, each with the browser and operating system, the IP address it connects from and when it was last used. The one you are reading this in is marked This session.

Sign out anything you do not recognize with the button on its row. The session you are using cannot be signed out from here; use Sign out for that.

Only browser sessions are listed. Applications connected with an app password are under Connected apps.

Connected apps

The applications that reach your account without a browser: WebDAV clients, the desktop sync app, the mobile apps, and anything that was authorized through the API. Each of them can be cut off from here, one at a time.

An app that you approved in the browser is listed here without you having done anything else. For an app that asks you for a username and a password, this is where you create them. See App passwords.