# Track and receive transfers

Statuses, the activity log, accepting what you receive, and saving files to Drive.

## The Transfers overview

**Exchange › Transfers** has three tabs: **Received**, **Sent** and **Sent to self**. The **To do** filter shows only transfers that still need your action.

Each transfer has a status:

![The Transfers overview with the Received, Sent and Sent to self tabs](https://databeamer.eu/docs-screenshots/en/transfers-list.png)

| Status    | Meaning                                                     |
| --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Pending   | Sent, not yet accepted or opened by everyone.               |
| Completed | Every recipient has accepted or downloaded.                 |
| Expired   | The retention period has passed and the files were removed. |
| Cancelled | The sender deleted the transfer.                            |

## Following a transfer you sent

Open a transfer to see its **Activity**: who accepted, declined or downloaded, and when. Guest downloads appear here too, and in your activity feed. When a recipient accepts, you receive a **Transfer accepted** notification.

**Delete Transfer** removes the files immediately for everyone.

## Receiving a transfer

A transfer sent to your account appears on your dashboard under **To do** and in **Received**. Open it and choose **Accept** or **Decline**. The sender can see which you chose.

After accepting:

- **Download** a single file or **Download as ZIP** for everything. Files are decrypted on your device.
- **Save to Databeamer Drive** copies the files into a folder of your choice so you keep them after the transfer expires.
- **Report abuse** if the transfer is unwanted or harmful.

Transfers expire. If you want to keep the files, save them to Drive before the expiry date shown on the transfer.

> **Security details**
>
> - On expiry a background job marks the transfer expired, tombstones its group and purges the encrypted blocks; a record without content stays for the activity log. **Delete Transfer** does the same immediately. Files a recipient saved to their Drive have their own keys and records and survive.
> - Guest access is logged: for a passphrase as a receipt the guest's browser reports after unlocking, for the code-by-email mode as each key release.
> - Accept, decline, download and guest access are written to the audit log; entries made by your devices are signed, guest downloads are server entries.