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[[!meta title="Sharing files with OnionShare"]]
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[OnionShare](https://onionshare.org/) is a tool to share files of any size securely and anonymously.
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<span class="application">OnionShare</span> creates an onion address
that someone else can visit in <span class="application">Tor
Browser</span> to access the files that you want to share.
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To share files with <span class="application">OnionShare</span>:
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Open the <span class="application">Files</span> browser.
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Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the files or folders that you want to share and choose <span class="guilabel">Share via OnionShare</span>. <span class="application">OnionShare</span> starts.
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To share more files or folders, you can either:
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Drag and drop them from the <span class="application">Files</span> browser onto <span class="application">OnionShare</span>.
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Click the <span class="guilabel">Add</span> button in <span class="application">OnionShare</span>.
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Click <span class="guilabel">Start Sharing</span>.
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<div class="bug">
<p>Starting to share the files can take up to several minutes.</p>
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When the files are available for sharing, an onion address appears at
the bottom of <span class="application">OnionShare</span>.
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[[!img onionshare.png link="no" alt=""]]
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Send this onion address to someone else, for example, by email.
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The other person can download the files by visiting the onion address
in <span class="application">Tor Browser</span>.
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<span class="application">OnionShare</span> informs you when the files are being accessed.
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The files are not shared anymore as soon as you close
<span class="application">OnionShare</span> or shut down Tails.
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<div class="tip">
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<p>To learn more about how to use <i>OnionShare</i>, see the
<a href="https://docs.onionshare.org/"><i>OnionShare</i> documentation.</p>
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