Your backup in your cloud
A copy in your Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox.
The folder can copy itself to your Google Drive, your OneDrive or your Dropbox. You turn it on under Settings → Integrations, and the connection is yours: each person links their own account.
What it is, and what it is not
- It is a one-way mirror. Galilei Hub is still the source of truth.
- Whatever you upload or edit directly in your cloud does NOT come back to the Hub. It is not a second desk, and it will not become one: a file arriving that way would skip the permissions, the antivirus and the log.
- What gets copied is what YOU can download under the folder permissions. Not one file more.
The notice you get when turning it on says those three things before you accept. Read all of it: it is what prevents the week-three surprise.
If you are a broker, pick the scope
A broker can download everything in the brokerage, so their mirror would be the whole brokerage. That is why their connection offers a choice: only their own folders, which is what comes ticked, or the entire agency. The option only appears for those who can.
Permissions are re-checked at copy time
Not when the job is queued: at the exact moment of uploading the file. A document that stopped being visible to you in between does not get copied. That is what keeps each person's mirror matching what they already see on screen.
What happens when you delete
If a document is deleted in the Hub, your copy in the cloud stays. It is your backup, in your account: deleting it for you would turn it into something else. The honest consequence, which the screen tells you, is that your folder can end up holding files that are no longer in the Hub.
For the same reason, the platform never reads your cloud. The permissions it asks for are write permissions, and the protocol has no list and no download. It is not a good-faith promise: the code to do it does not exist.
iCloud, said straight
It cannot be done. Apple offers no public API for a web service to write into someone's iCloud Drive, which is why no competing platform has it either. If you use iCloud there are two real ways out: save to Files from the iOS app, which is manual, or install the desktop client for Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, which puts those folders in your Finder.