TDrive is my first Golang project. It uses Telegram as the storage layer: files are posted into Telegram channels/groups, and the app gives you a drive-like UI on top.

This project is for educational purposes only. I’m not trying to harm Telegram, abuse their services, or bypass anything, it’s just a learning project to understand Go + Wails + Telegram APIs.

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Features

• Drives & folders — a private My Drive plus collaborative shared drives, with nested folders, rename, move, and delete.
• Files larger than 2 GB — automatically split across multiple Telegram messages and rejoined on download; shown as a single file.
• End-to-end encryption — optional per-file encryption on My Drive (XChaCha20-Poly1305); contents are encrypted before they ever reach Telegram.
• Folder & archive import — drop whole folders or .zip / .tar / .tar.gz archives; folder structure is recreated and archives can be extracted on the way in.
• Photos gallery — browse every image in a drive, newest first.
• Shared drives — invite friends with instant or approval-required links; everyone can upload, organize, and see who uploaded what.
• Cancellable transfers — cancel uploads and downloads mid-flight, with live size and speed.
• CLI mode — use TDrive from the terminal with a local daemon, Linux-like commands, folder/archive upload, shared drives, vault unlock, and progress output.

Download

Grab the latest build for your platform from the Releases page.

• GUI builds: macOS, Windows, and Linux AppImage.
• CLI builds: macOS and Linux *-cli.tar.gz assets.

Windows CLI support is not wired yet. Use the GUI on Windows for now. On first run, enter your Telegram API credentials (see Telegram API ID + Hash below).

macOS installation note

If you see a warning saying "TDrive Not opened because the developer cannot be verified" this is normal for open source apps not signed with a paid Apple ID ( they ask for 99$/yr certificate and i aint got that money to spent it on that).

Example of the popup :

To fix this:

1. Try to open TDrive (click "OK" on the error popup).
2. Open your Mac's System Settings (or System Preferences).
3. Go to Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll down to the Security section.
5. Click the Open Anyway button.
6. Enter your password if asked, and click Open.

This is what it looks like in Privacy & Security:

(You only need to do this once. Future opens will work normally).

How it works

• You login with your Telegram account (phone → code → optional 2FA password).
• My Drive is a private Telegram channel owned by you.
• Shared drives are Telegram megagroups, so friends can join and upload too.
• Uploading a file = sending it as a Telegram document message.
• Folders, renames, moves, deletes, encryption settings, etc. are stored as small TDX1|... metadata messages.
• SQLite is only a local cache. If the cache is wiped, TDrive can rebuild the view from Telegram history.

Shared drives

Shared drives are usable now, but still new. You can:

• Create a shared drive and invite friends with a link.
• Choose normal instant-join links or approval-required links.
• Approve/reject join requests from inside TDrive.
• Upload, download, rename, move, and delete files.
• Create, rename, move, and delete folders.
• See who uploaded files.

Treat invite links like passwords. Anyone with a normal invite link can join unless you revoke it. If you need tighter control, create an approval-required link.

Folder structure inside a shared drive is collaborative: any member can create, rename, move, or delete folders. Deleting a folder also deletes the files inside it, after a confirmation warning.

Encryption

Personal-drive encryption is per upload. When you choose encrypted upload, TDrive encrypts the file contents before sending them to Telegram, and decrypts automatically on preview/download after you enter the correct password.

Important details:

• Encryption is for My Drive only right now, not shared drives.
• Only file contents are encrypted. File names, folder names, sizes, and metadata are still visible.
• One encryption password protects all encrypted personal files.
• TDrive remembers the password only until you close the app.
• Changing the password does not re-encrypt every file. It re-wraps the same master key, so old encrypted files still work with the new password.
• There is no reset/recovery if you forget the password. The hint can help you remember, but it cannot decrypt anything by itself.

Telegram API ID + Hash (required)

You need your own Telegram API credentials:

• Get them from: https://my.telegram.org/apps

The app stores these credentials locally after you enter them in the setup screen.

CLI

The CLI is for macOS and Linux power users who want to use TDrive from a terminal.

Install from a release asset:

tar -xzf TDrive-*-cli.tar.gz
cd TDrive-*-cli
./install-cli.sh

If the installer updated your shell config, reload it:

source ~/.zshrc   # or ~/.bashrc

Set up Telegram credentials and log in:

tdrive setup --api-id YOUR_ID --api-hash YOUR_HASH
tdrive login +15551234567
tdrive whoami
tdrive ls

You can also run tdrive setup without flags and enter the API ID + Hash interactively.

Most commands auto-start the local daemon in the background. The daemon keeps the Telegram session, sync state, and unlocked vault key alive while you use CLI commands. The GUI and CLI daemon cannot run at the same time because they use the same Telegram session/backend state; if the GUI is open, the CLI will ask you to close it first.

Common commands:

tdrive drives
tdrive drive use <name|id>

tdrive pwd
tdrive ls -l
tdrive mkdir -p /Photos
tdrive put photo.jpg /Photos/
tdrive get /Photos/photo.jpg .
tdrive cat /Notes/readme.txt

tdrive mkdir -p /Backups
tdrive put folder /Backups/

tdrive mkdir -p /Imports
tdrive put --extract archive.zip /Imports/

tdrive mv /old /new
tdrive rm -r /folder
tdrive sync
tdrive rebuild

tdrive vault status
tdrive unlock
tdrive vault lock

Folder and archive imports require the destination folder to already exist first. Single-file uploads can create or rename the final file path.

Shared drive commands:

tdrive drive create "Team Drive"
tdrive drive link
tdrive drive join <invite-link>
tdrive drive requests
tdrive drive approve <user-id>
tdrive drive deny <user-id>
tdrive drive leave <name|id>

Remove the installed CLI:

tdrive uninstall-cli

Build from source

wails dev      # run in development
wails build    # build a release binary
go build -o tdrive ./cmd/tdrive  # build the CLI

You’ll need your own Telegram API credentials (see above) the first time you run it.

Where data is stored (local files)

Persistent local files are stored inside your OS “user config” folder under a TDrive directory:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/TDrive/
• Linux: ~/.config/TDrive/
• Windows: %AppData%\\TDrive\\

Files you’ll see there:

• imp_config.json → Telegram API ID + Hash (from the setup screen)
• session.json → Telegram login session
• config.json → Drive channel id (channel_id)
• tdrive.db → Local cache for channels, folders, files, sync log, and encryption metadata
• cli.json → CLI current drive and per-drive working directory
• daemon.log → CLI daemon log
• backend.lock → Prevents the GUI and CLI daemon from using the backend at the same time

The CLI daemon socket is runtime-only and lives under $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or /tmp/tdrive-<uid> on Unix-like systems, not in the config folder.

Notes & caveats

TDX metadata. You will see TDX1|... messages in Telegram. They are silent but visible, and they are how TDrive remembers the drive structure. Don’t edit or delete them from the regular Telegram app. Changing them can desync what different members see.

CLI status. The CLI is currently macOS/Linux only. The GUI and CLI daemon are mutually exclusive: close the GUI before using CLI commands. tdrive unlock keeps the vault key only in daemon memory, and tdrive cat may stage decrypted content through a temporary file before writing it to stdout. Folder/archive import is copy-style import, not sync/merge; importing the same folder again can create names like folder (2).

Download counts. The downloads badge shows total GitHub release asset downloads. For a per-release/per-OS breakdown:

./scripts/release-downloads.sh
./scripts/release-downloads.sh v1.0.0

This uses GitHub's release asset download counts through the gh CLI. It does not track active users.

A note on AI. I used AI to help with the frontend UI/styling and planning while i focused more on learning the Go + Telegram side , and also used it for few functions like upload coz i wasnt understanding anything from offical docs lol.

License

See LICENSE.