Dockli writes every change straight back to Microsoft 365 through your existing permissions — there’s no local copy to sync. This article covers creating, renaming, deleting, and moving. To browse and open first, see Browsing and opening.
Creating a folder or document
Right-click an empty area of the grid and choose New Folder or New Document.
- New Folder opens a dialog titled “New folder” with the field “Enter folder name.”
- New Document opens a dialog titled “New document” with the field “Enter document name.” If you don’t type an extension, Dockli defaults the file to
.docx.
Type a name and click Create (or press Enter); Cancel backs out. The new item appears in the grid without a manual refresh. If Microsoft 365 rejects the name — for example, invalid characters — Dockli surfaces that message inline and keeps the dialog open so you can fix it.
You need write access
New Folder and New Document only appear where you can add items. In a read-only location they’re unavailable — see Permissions.
Renaming
Select a file or folder and choose Rename from the right-click menu, or press F2. The “Rename” dialog opens with the current name pre-filled and selected (just like Explorer), under the label “Enter a new name.”
Type the new name and click Rename (or Enter); Cancel backs out. If you leave the name unchanged, Dockli simply closes the dialog. A rejected rename shows Microsoft 365’s message inline and keeps the dialog open.
Deleting
Select one or more items and choose Delete from the right-click menu, or press the Delete key. A confirmation dialog titled “Delete” appears with a red Delete button:
- For one item: “Are you sure you want to delete “
name”?” - For several: “Are you sure you want to delete these
Nitems?”
Click the red Delete to confirm or Cancel to stop. Deleted items go to the SharePoint recycle bin, so nothing is gone for good — you can restore them (see Recycle Bin). Multiple items delete in parallel; if some can’t be deleted, Dockli tells you exactly how many failed (“N of M item(s) could not be deleted.”) and leaves the dialog open. The Delete button is disabled while the delete is in flight, so you can’t double-submit.
Moving and copying by drag-and-drop
Dockli supports full drag-and-drop, in three directions.
Within Dockli (between folders and panes)
Drag files or folders onto a destination folder, or into the other pane in Split View. When you drop without holding Ctrl, Dockli shows a small menu so you can choose:
- Move
Nitem(s) here - Copy
Nitem(s) here - Cancel
Hold Ctrl while dropping to copy directly. A folder highlights as you hover it to show it’s a live drop target. Moving and copying between different sites (or even different tenants) is covered in Copy and move across sites.
Dragging files out to Windows
Drag a single file from the grid out onto your Windows desktop or into another app, and Dockli downloads it there — so you can hand a file off to any local program.
Dragging OS files in to upload
Drag files from Windows into a Dockli folder to upload them to Microsoft 365. A folder shows a “Copy to “folder"" hint as you hover it. If you don’t have permission to add items there, Dockli blocks the upload and shows “You don’t have permission to add items here.”
Name conflicts
If a move, copy, paste, or upload lands items that already exist in the destination, Dockli asks before overwriting. The conflict dialog is titled “Replace or skip the item?” (or “Replace or skip items?” for several) and explains:
- One item: “The destination already has an item named “
name”. Replace it or skip it?” - Several: “The destination already has
Nitems with the same names. Replace them or skip them?”
Choose Skip to leave the existing items untouched, or Replace (Replace all for several) to overwrite. Non-conflicting items in the same batch are already done by the time this appears. If you skip, Dockli confirms with “Skipped N items.”
Permissions
Every action respects your Microsoft 365 rights:
- Actions you can’t perform on a target are disabled in the menu (for example, Cut/move requires delete permission on each item).
- Read-only folders reject drops and uploads, with the permission message above.
- Copy is always available — it’s read-only on the source.
Behind the scenes these actions call Dockli’s local service under /api/nodes/*, which issues the real Microsoft Graph calls on your behalf. Your token never leaves that service — see Authentication and tokens.
Where to go next
- Move across sites and tenants → Copy and move across sites
- Restore something you deleted → Recycle Bin