# Drive

Your drive holds your files: 10 GB, whether or not you are in a team. It is yours alone,
and stays yours whatever teams you join or leave. How much is used is shown at the foot of
the Drive page.

## Adding files

Press **New** and choose **Upload files** or **New folder**, or drop files onto the page.
One file can be up to 1 GB, and a name up to 255 characters. Folders can't be dropped: make
the folder, then drop its files into it.

The folder `chat-attachments` holds the files you attach to chats. It can't be renamed,
moved or deleted.

## Working with files

Open a file to see it. Each file's menu has **Download**, **Rename**, **Move** and
**Move to Trash**. Switch between **Grid** and **List** at the top.

## Finding a file

Type in **Search drive** to find a file or a folder by its name. **Search** in the
sidebar, and the assistant, also find a file by the words inside it, for these kinds:

| Kind | What is read |
|---|---|
| Text, code, Markdown, CSV, JSON | all of it |
| HTML, XML, SVG | its text |
| PDF | its text, if it has any: a scanned page has none |
| Word, Excel, PowerPoint (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) | the text, the sheets, the slides and notes |
| OpenDocument (ODT, ODS, ODP) | the text and the sheets |

Pictures, video, sound, and the older formats DOC, XLS, PPT and RTF are found by name only.
So is any file over 100 MB.

## The Trash

**Move to Trash** keeps a file or folder in the Trash for 30 days, where it still counts
against your 10 GB. **Put back** returns it. After 30 days it is deleted for good.
**Permanently delete** and **Empty Trash** delete sooner, and ask first.

When you delete a chat, the files its messages attached go to the Trash.

## What the assistant can do

With the **Drive** connection on, the assistant can list, search and read your files,
write text files, make folders, and rename, move, trash and put back. It asks you before
it deletes anything for good or empties the Trash.

With the **Sandbox** connection on too, it can copy a file into its sandbox to work on it,
and save what it made back to your drive, up to 100 MB a file. A file it saves goes to the
top of your drive unless you name a folder, and never replaces one you have.