as one or more individual files one or more folders of files or meaningful portions of files or other content the request might be for example the result of one of the user interface actions depicted in fig3 a 3c responsive to receiving the request the sharing module 105 generates 430 a link specifying the file set as discussed above with respect to the link generation module 230 the link may then be displayed to the user via a user interface such as that of fig3 d or 3 f a user may manually distribute the link to others with whom the associated file is to be shared or may use the optional link distribution module 240 to facilitate the distribution the sharing module 105 receives 440 from a second client e g client 110 b of fig1 located remotely from the first client e g client 110 a that made the request to share the file set an access request via the link the file access module 260 then provides 450 a representation of the file set as described above reference in the specification to u201c one embodiment u201d or to u201c an embodiment u201d means that a particular feature structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiments is included in at least one embodiment the appearances of the phrase u201c in one embodiment u201d in.