Shared translated files
What a recipient sees when you share a translated document, image, or media file — and what they can do with it.
A translated file can be shared with a link, by email, or into a chat. A recipient can open the translated result in a browser. A recipient added by email or chat can also find it in JotMe Desktop.
Product-brief-ja.pdf
English → Japanese · Shared by Taka Shirasu
製品概要
What the link opens#
The page shows the translated file with the original available alongside it, so a reader can check a term against the source without downloading anything. It names the person who shared it, and marks itself as a shared translated file rather than something the reader owns.
Documents, images, video, and audio can all be shared this way. Text translations cannot: JotMe says so plainly rather than producing an empty file.
Where recipients open it#
| How it was shared | Browser | JotMe Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Link only | Open the link. No account is needed to view. | It does not appear in Desktop because the link is not tied to an email address. |
| Open the link in the email. | Sign in with the recipient email, go to Translate → Translation history, then select Shared with me. | |
| Chat | Open the file card in the chat. | Sign in with the email that belongs to the chat member, go to Translate → Translation history, then select Shared with me. |
The browser lets recipients switch between the translated result and the original. Desktop currently opens the translated result only.
View, comment, and edit#
You choose the level when you share, and it applies to everyone you shared with:
| Permission | In a browser | In JotMe Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| View | View the translation and original; download after signing in. | View and download the translated result. |
| Comment | Everything in View, plus read, add, and resolve comments after signing in. | Everything in View, plus read, add, and resolve comments. |
| Edit | Everything in Comment, plus retranslate the file or redub audio and video to create a new revision. | Everything in Comment, plus retranslate the file or redub audio and video to create a new revision. |
Note
Reading in a browser needs nothing — no account, no install, just the link. Downloading requires a signed-in JotMe account. Commenting and editing require the permitted recipient to sign in. Downloading the finished file does not spend credits or minutes.
Sharing into a chat#
Sharing a translated file into a chat grants your chosen permission to everyone in that chat as of that moment. It is a snapshot, not a rule: people who join the chat later are not covered, so share again if the group grows.
The card posted in the thread opens the browser view. Members can also find the file in Desktop's Shared with me list when their signed-in email has access.
Sharing by email#
Recipients get an email with the link. Chat shares skip the email on purpose — the card in the thread is the notification, so nobody gets both.
Comments#
Comments live with the file rather than in a chat, so a question about paragraph three stays next to paragraph three. Anyone with comment or edit permission can add one, resolve it, and see everyone else's. A comment can be deleted by its author or by the file's owner.
Turning the link off#
Revoking the share link invalidates it for everyone at once, clears the record of who was emailed, and removes the file from recipients' Desktop Shared with me list. Anyone who kept the URL gets nothing back from it afterwards.
Heads up
Deleting a translated file removes it and its stored original permanently. Copies already sent into a chat are not removed — they were uploaded to that chat when you shared them.
Related#
- Translation for creating and sharing a translated file
- Shared notes and transcripts for meeting write-ups rather than files
- Multilingual chat for sharing one into a thread