Hello, friends! As you know, on Vkontakte, you can add videos and photos to the page, etc., then all your friends and account guests will see information that is interesting to you. But that's not all. You can send a photo or video to a person and a personal message. This is done using the "Attachments" button. This is where the item "Documents" is of interest to us.
And now we will figure out where to find documents on our Vkontakte page, how to send them to another user, including a photo, how to add the desired file from your device, computer, laptop, phone or tablet to your profile and how to remove unnecessary docks from a page or from a dialog.
But let's talk about everything in order. Since the article turned out to be informative, you can use the content to quickly go to the information you are interested in.
Where to find documents
If you enter your profile from a computer or laptop, then in order to go to viewing the docks that are on your page, you need to select the appropriate item in the right side menu.
If the line "Documents" is not there, then hover over any other item and click on the gear that appears.
The "Customize Menu Items" window opens. In it, on the "Basic" tab, opposite the "Documents" line, you need to check the box and click "Save".
When you open the desired page, on the right side you will see a small menu. In order to quickly find the required file, for example, you know its name, use the search.
Using the search, you can see the docks of other users, if they add them to their profile not as personal.
How to download
If you need to add a document to your Vkontakte profile, then open the page with the entire list, as described above. Then click on the "Add ...." button.
As you can see, there are restrictions on the size of the added file - no more than 200 MB. Many formats are supported, so you can add a Word file to VK (* .doc, * .docx), an e-book (* .pdf, * .fb2, * .djvu), a file saved in Photoshop (*. Psd) and much other.
Now you can change the name. You also need to indicate with a marker this will be your "Personal Document", that is, it will not be seen by other users, or you can make it available through a search.
For example, I add information about hotkeys to Word. I will make the information open - you need to put a marker in front of "Educational document", and indicate the labels: hot keys, abstract, MS Word, Word. If a person searches for something like that, he may see my work in the results.
The required dock will be added to your profile.
How to attach a document in a message
In order to send a file to another user, on your page in the right menu, select the "Messages" item. Then open a dialogue with the right person.
Below, to the left of the field for entering a message, there is an image of a paper clip - this is the "Attachments" button, click on it.
The "Attachment ..." page will open. Below you will see a complete list of files that are in your profile, you can choose from it. To do this, hover the cursor over the desired one and click opposite it on the "Attach" button that appears.
You can send a document from your computer or laptop. To do this, click "Upload new file", find it and attach it to the message. More on this a little below, using the example of sending a photo.
For example, I want to send Vordovsky. Since, in the previous paragraph, I uploaded it to my page, I simply select it from the proposed list. If you do not upload the file to your page, you can select it directly on your computer.
Wait a little while it loads and click on the arrow to send a message.
How to send a photo
If you need to send another user a photo document in VK from your computer, then open a dialogue with the right person, click on the image of a paper clip and select "Document" from the list.
Now click on Upload New File.
Using the Explorer that opens, find the photo on your computer, select it and click "Open".
The photo will be attached to the message, click on the arrow to send.
How to delete
If you have a lot of old documents in your list that are no longer needed, you can delete them from there.
On your profile page, in the left menu, select the item that we already know. Next, hover the cursor over unnecessary files and click a cross in front of them.
How to delete all documents at once
Click on the extension icon in the upper right corner of the browser. Then you need to select "My Page", find the "Documents" section in the list that opens and click "Delete ....".
Removing from a dialog
If you want to delete a specific file from the Vkontakte dialogue, then go to the message page and open a dialogue with the right person. Then, in the correspondence, find the document to be deleted and click on an empty space next to it to select it, and click on the "Delete" button.
In order to view all the documents that you exchanged with the user, open a dialog with him and click to the right of the name on the image of three horizontal dots. Select "Show Attachments" from the drop-down menu.
There are four tabs in the window that opens, so you can quickly find what exactly interests you.
How to remove gifs
To remove gif images from documents on your Vkontakte page, select "Documents" in the left menu.
Documents in the VK mobile application
Now let's talk about where to look for docks in the Vkontakte mobile application installed on your phone or tablet.
Go to the Vkontakte application and open the side menu. In it, click on the image with the avatar.
The main page of your account will open. Scroll down a little. Then slide your finger on the line showing "Groups", "Audio recordings" and so on, to the left. There you will see the "Documents" section - click on it to open a list of all.
Adding a document from your phone
If you want to add a file to your profile, then open the desired page, as described above. Then click on the blue plus sign in the lower right corner.
A small menu will appear. To add a photo or video, select "Add from Gallery" in it. If you want to download a Word, Excel or Photoshop file, click Download from Device.
After that, find the document to download on your phone or tablet.
Wait for the file to upload. After that, it will appear in the list. For example, I have added a file made in MS Word.
Removing docks from VK from your phone
If there are unnecessary files in the list, you can easily delete them from there. Press and hold your finger on the unneeded file. A window should appear as shown in the screenshot below. Select the "Delete" item in it.
Confirm that you are really going to remove the selected file from the list.
I will end on this. It seems that I took into account all the nuances that relate to Vkontakte documents. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments.
After the transition of the social network "Vkontakte" into the hands of mail.ru, many changes took place. Unfortunately, almost all of the changes were not for the better. One of these changes was a recently discovered bug with which you can view other people's VK documents. Good or bad, it’s at least silly to say. After all, all confidential information (including yours) can fall into the hands of an attacker.
In this article, we will take a closer look at how this bug works and show you how to protect your confidential information.
What is this bug? You can view any text documents, screenshots, photos, gifs and videos. Download archives .rar / .zip, etc. Fortunately, the documents of all people are scattered, so that finding a specific person becomes quite problematic. How can attackers use this information, you may ask?
The answer is very simple, having found a certain photo or video (often explicit), you can easily find out who it belongs to, thereby blackmailing him. The same can happen with text documents in which important information is hidden. For example passwords, action plan, private information, etc.
1. First, we need to go to “Documents” (there are two ways to do this).
Open a dialogue with any person, click on a paper clip (to the left of the dialogue window). In the window that appears, select "Documents".
Select the “Documents” tab in the left menu (where friends, dialogues, etc. are located).
2. As soon as we open “Documents”, we will see all the documents that we have ever uploaded or added. We need to use the search and find the necessary document (everything here is limited solely by your imagination, because a person can name the document whatever he wants).
3. Having driven in any request, we will receive all the documents for this key.
As we can see in the screenshots above, VK provides us with documents that we initially did not have.
4. But that's not all, as mentioned earlier, an attacker has the opportunity to find out who owns this document. This is quite simple to do. We just need to right-click (RMB) on the file and select “View Code” (in GoogleChorome), “Explore Element” (in Yandex Browser).
5. We will open a console where we need to copy the first digits after “/ doc ...”
6. After that, we insert these numbers into the VK id, “https://vk.com/id (it is clear that)” and press “Enter”. We will open the page of the person who uploaded this file for himself or used it in correspondence.
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How do I protect my data?
At the moment, we know 3 ways to protect information. They will be listed according to the degree of reliability, ranging from the most reliable to the most unreliable.
Data protection by deletion
As silly as it sounds, getting rid of all the documents is the most reliable solution. Judge for yourself, an attacker will not be able to obtain any information if it does not exist at all.
In order to delete a document in VK, you will need:
1. Go to “Documents” using the side menu (if there is no such tab, next to any tab from the same menu, there will be a gear on the left side that will appear as soon as you hover over it with the mouse. Click on it and put a checkmark opposite desired tab).
2. Hover over the required document and click on the cross in the upper right corner. This will delete the document.
Setting a password for data
This method is unlikely to be suitable for transferring data of little importance and small data size. After a while, this routine work will start to drive you crazy. What is this method? It consists in the fact that when transferring any file, we transferred it using a password-protected archive.
1. First, create an archive.rar / .zip (Press pkm on any free space on the desktop or in a folder, “Create” → “Create a ZIP document - WinRAR”)
2. Now we set the password for the archive. To do this, click "Add" and in the "General" tab select "Set password ...". Then we enter the password and apply the settings.
3. The main work has already been done, little remains to be done. We drag and drop all the documents that we need to send to this archive and send it to VK, having previously told the recipient the previously set password.
Thus, having downloaded such an archive, an attacker will not be able to open it. Again, this is not the safest way, due to the possibility of breaking this password.
Renaming a document
This is the third and easiest way to protect yourself. Unfortunately, in our case, simplicity does not provide security. All we need is to rename the document so that it does not fall under search queries.
1. Going into documents through the side menu.
2. Select a document and edit it.
3. In the window that appears, change the name. You can use any names and symbols, for example: “bufg3nvldsv934”, “47865hfdog”, etc. After that, we save the document.
We have listed only some of the ways to protect your data. Be careful when submitting personal information: passwords, intimate photos, private plugins, etc. someone with a personal message.
Write in the comments what you managed to find, for example, I found the login and password for the college website, I also found the personal accounts of university students, you can find a lot of interesting things in the documents, you just need to do a good search.
The “Documents” heading in the social resource “Vkontakte” appeared not so long ago, but for many users it has already become one of the favorite headings of the social resource. This is especially true for students and schoolchildren - below we will tell you why.
However, at the same time, not quite enough knowledge about the possibilities of the “Documents” section and the inability to use the section, no matter how strange it may seem, will turn against you, and under certain conditions will even harm you. Our article will talk about some of the secrets of conducting a search in the "Documents" section and about mistakes that in no case should be allowed.
Secrets and features of the search for the "Documents" section.
Few people know that the “Documents” section of a popular social resource can be used not only to send and store your documents, but also to upload other people's documents. Document search allows users with just two clicks to find an abstract, term paper, missing diploma section or home test work already done by someone before you.
The whole secret is that absolutely all documents that users of a social resource send to each other on the walls or in private messages become publicly available automatically. And this means that with the help of the selection of phrases for search, users will be able to get almost any necessary information that has ever been previously sent to a social network.
Some tips on how to choose search phrases if the user wants to find an essay or work in the required academic discipline:
1. The surname of a classmate, a user who usually performs all the work before others, is entered into the search line.
2. Enter the name of the teacher who reads the subject of interest, because many students describe their work done in this way.
3. The abbreviated name of the discipline is introduced.
General tips for searching in the "Documents" section:
1. If you want to get only tables in the search results, then add “xls” to the search phrase, if only text documents, then add “doc”.
2. Think about how you could name the document that interested you - maybe your version of the title would coincide with the version of the author.
It should be borne in mind that you will not be able to find the documents of a particular user, and you also cannot find out who owns the document that you found.
What not to do while working with documents in a social resource.
You should never, under any circumstances, upload documents under such names as “passwords”, “pin-code”, “keys”, as well as with the corresponding text content. And if suddenly they were downloaded by accident, in this case, do not send them to anyone, then they will not become available to all users.
If you upload some important document and do not want to delete it later, you can set privacy on it. Do the following:
1. You must go to the "Documents" section.
2. Then click on the document you are interested in and select the "Edit" option.
3. After that, you should set the mark on “Personal document”, which will be inaccessible through the search.
In order to make the work with the "Documents" section more convenient, it is recommended to use it, you can install it for free by clicking on the link: http://vk.com/app3307470.
In the social network there is a section that appeared not so long ago on Vkontakte, called "Documents". This is a kind of file warehouse where VK documents are stored, which are used to attach to messages, to chat correspondence, on the wall and comments. Documents also include links that contain pictures, photos, videos and photos, music, standard Word or Excel (Word, Excel) files, as well as archives and many other formats.
The maximum size of one document should be no more than 200 megabytes (MB).
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Send VK documents.
You can send in two ways. First, through the Documents section, where you select the desired file and simply mount it on the wall or in a message. Suitable for group mailing, or creating a group where files will be placed.
Secondly, load it using the standard method, and then attach it to the message. Used to send a document
specific user. Instruction with pictures: (See).
Search by section
The use allows you to find the necessary documents that were made by someone. Thus, VK Documents help to upload other people's files - essays, books, diplomas, term papers. The function is great for students and schoolchildren, who are the most active users of the section in this regard. The peculiarity lies in the fact that the "Documents" store absolutely the weight of the files sent within the network.
Only with the help of individual words or key phrases can you find the information you need.
Selection of keywords can be carried out by such methods. First, enter into the search box the surname of those who submit their work earlier than others at the university.
Secondly, find the teacher's page where samples of work can be posted.
Third, type in the title of the course and everything related to the subject will be found.
To get files of a specific extension, you must enter either .doc, .xls.ppt with all sorts of new versions. You also need to try to search for specific phrases, sometimes it coincides with the name of the desired work.
During the search, the found documents will be reflected, without specifying the user, which complies with the privacy policy.
When working with files, you should never download those that have provocative names, or passwords, keys, pin codes are called. Sometimes users can upload documents where the title matches the internal content. Sometimes there is a need to store documents for some time, they need to be secured against penetration and downloading. To do this, you need to put a password with the label “ personal document". This will hide it from the search bar and ensure privacy in its use.
How to set the label "Personal Document".
In order for none of the other users to be able to read or view your VK document, you need to set the label "Personal document" on it. To do this, press the pencil, "edit" the file near the name. And check the box you want, there are still options: Study document, Book, Other document.
How to enter documents in VK from the phone.
In the mobile version there is no menu item "Documents", but you can see them if you add "m.vk.com/ docs"- but it is not always possible to download or edit in the mobile version of VK. It is better to use the full version of VK to work with documents.
How to delete a document in VK.
Move the cursor over the name of the document and click on the "Delete" cross, confirm the deletion.
