A paste is a piece of text — a code snippet, a log file, a config, a long message — that you share as a link instead of an attachment. The recipient reads it in the browser with line numbers and syntax highlighting, and can copy or download it with one click. Open Paste in the navbar (or go to filemv.com/paste), paste the text, pick a language (or leave it as plain text) and choose Create link.
With or without an account
| Without an account (guest) | With an account | |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum size | 256 KiB | 1 MiB |
| Bot check (captcha) | always | no |
| Private visibility | not available | available |
| Editing later | not possible | yes — content, title and language; the link stays the same |
| After the link expires | the text is deleted 7 days later | the paste stays in your Drive |
Either way a paste can have at most 50,000 lines, and the number of pastes you can create per hour is limited to keep the service free of spam. For anything larger, upload it as a file.
A guest paste stays a guest paste. Registering later does not move it into your account, and it cannot be edited afterwards. If you want to manage a paste, sign in before you create it.
Visibility
- Unlisted link (default) — FileMv lists it nowhere; whoever has the link can open it.
- Public — it can also appear in FileMv's own search, and search engines may index it (see below).
- Private (account only) — only you can open it, even with the link. Handy for notes and drafts.
Search engines: only a public paste can be indexed by Google and other search engines — its title and text can then show up in their results. Unlisted, password-protected and private pastes are kept out of search engines: their pages tell search engines not to index them (noindex). If a paste should not be found, leave it unlisted or protect it with a password.
Password and expiry
Both are under Settings on the paste form, for guests too.
- Password (optional): visitors have to enter it before they see the text — the raw link is protected the same way. See password-protected links.
- Link expiry: 1 day, 7 days, 30 days (default), 90 days, 1 year, or never. The expiry applies to the link: once it has passed, the paste page and the raw link answer "this share has expired".
With an account you can change the password and the expiry, or revoke the link, later in the paste's share settings — exactly as for any shared file. Deleting a paste works like deleting a file: it goes to the trash.
What happens to guest pastes
A guest paste's link expires after the period chosen when it was created — 30 days unless you picked another one. Seven days after the link has expired, the text is deleted for good; it cannot be recovered. A guest paste whose expiry was set to "never" is not deleted automatically.
Raw link, highlighting and safety
- Every paste has a Raw link that returns the text unformatted, as UTF-8 plain text — you can fetch it directly with
curlorwget. - Highlighting covers 25 common languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, SQL, Bash, PowerShell, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, YAML, Markdown, Dockerfile, INI and diff). Very long pastes are shown without colours.
- A paste is always just text: nothing in it is run or rendered — a pasted HTML page or script is shown as text, never executed, and links in it are not clickable.
If you come across a paste that breaks the rules, use the Report button on its page — see reporting content.