You can upload several files to Drive in one go, either by dragging them in or by choosing them from your computer. Drive checks every file before it sends it, so you find out straight away if something cannot be uploaded.
Before you start
- Open My Documents for files only you should see, or Company Documents for files that belong to the company.
- For Company Documents, choose a company, financial year and branch first. Without them Drive shows "Select a company, financial year, and branch before uploading."
- Each file can be up to 500 MB.
Start the upload
- Open My Documents or Company Documents in the left menu. If you want the files in a particular folder, open that folder first.
- Select Upload at the top right. In an empty list you can select Upload Document instead.
- The Upload documents window opens. The line under the title tells you where the files will go, for example "To Company Documents" and the folder name.
You can also drop files straight onto the page. Drive opens the same window with your files already listed.
Add your files
- Drag files into the box that says Drop files here or click to choose, or click the box and pick files. You can pick many at once.
- Each file appears in the list with its size. Files Drive cannot accept show a red cross and a short reason. Remove them with the small X.
- If two files in the list have the same name, Drive points it out but still keeps both.
Choose where it is filed
Under Filed under app, keep Drive (this app), or pick the app the files belong to, such as Smart Books, Manage or Billing. This only helps you find the files later.
Send the files
Select Upload. If you added more than one file, the button reads Upload followed by the number of files. Drive sends up to three files at the same time and shows a progress bar for each. While it is working you can select Cancel on one file, Skip on a file waiting its turn, or Stop & close to stop everything. Files that already finished are kept.
When everything is done you see "Upload complete!" for one file, or "All" and the number of files uploaded. The window closes by itself. If a file fails, select Retry failed.
What Drive will not accept
- Programs and scripts, such as .exe, .bat, .js, .php and similar files. This also applies to names like "invoice.exe.pdf".
- Web pages (HTML files).
- Files over 500 MB.
- Empty files. If you dropped a folder, Drive does not upload folders; open the folder and choose the files inside.
Documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, audio, video, e-mails and zip archives are all accepted.