How To Guides and Tutorials
How to Share a File or Folder with Another Archive
Sharing is the most restrictive and private way to share records. Sharing allows you to grant access to selected records in the My Files workspace and restrict that access to specific archives while remaining privately stored in your Permanent ...
How to Transfer Files Between Archives
Currently, transferring files between archives is not a fully supported feature on Permanent. We are working on making it easier to transfer files between two archives. In the meantime, this tutorial provides an alternative to downloading the files ...
How to Create a New Archive
Your Permanent.org account allows you to create and manage an unlimited number of archives. Archives can represent any person, a whole family group, or an organization. Switch back and forth between them without needing to log out. Creating a new ...
How to delete your account
Deleting your Permanent.org account will remove all reference to personally identifiable and contact information as well as payment options you have provided to us in your account settings. The account deletion action will not delete any archives ...
How to unpublish an item from your Public Archive
Your Public Archive is where you can share items from your archive publicly online for anyone to see. But you might decide that you no longer wish for an item to be available publicly. You can unpublish an item or folder from your Public Archive by ...
How to Delete an Archive
Delete an archive To delete an archive, your account must be the Owner of the archive. If you are not the Owner of the archive that needs to be deleted, log into the correct account, or reach out to the Owner of that archive. You can learn more about ...
Three Ways to Control Access to Records in Your Archive
As the owner of an archive, you have three ways to grant access to records in your archive to other people. In order from least restrictive to most restrictive: Publish to the web – choose this option if you want anyone to easily access your records ...
How to Import Person and Memories from FamilySearch
Permanent's integration with FamilySearch allows you to easily preserve the memories and personal metadata you've already collected in your FamilySearch family tree. You can create a Permanent archive for members of your family tree, then ...
How to Publish a File or Folder
Publishing a file or folder creates a publicly viewable copy of the item in your Public workspace. To publish a file, select the file or folder you wish to publish in your My Files Workspace by clicking it once to highlight it. Click the "Publish" ...