Google Workspace¶

Mount the Google Drive of a Google Workspace account as a Windows drive — My Drive, items shared with you, or a shared drive.

Before you begin¶

Prepare the following in advance:

A Google Workspace account.
If your organization restricts third-party apps, ask your Workspace administrator to allow RaiDrive.

Help from Google

Click Add in the toolbar.
Choose Business → Google Workspace.
Pick what to mount:
- My Drive — your own files.
- Shared with me — items other people shared with you.
- Shared drives — a team's shared drive.
- Folder — a single folder (see Mount a specific folder below).
Set the drive letter and name, then click Connect. Your browser opens — sign in to Google and click Allow.

Instead of the whole Drive, you can mount the selected folder.

Specify the folder one of two ways:

Click the folder icon to open a folder browser — it asks you to sign in first, then double-click into the folder you want and click OK.
Or select the Shared Link tab and paste the URL directly. Open the folder at drive.google.com and copy the URL from your browser's address bar.

Computer backups aren't browsable in-app — get the folder's URL from drive.google.com/drive/computers instead, and paste it into Shared Link.

Setting	Description	Default
Source	My Drive, Shared with me, Shared drives, or Folder	My Drive
Drive letter	Where the drive mounts in Windows	first available
Read-only	Blocks writes to the mounted drive	off

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are web-native documents — they appear on the drive as .gdoc, .gsheet, and .gslides files that open in the browser rather than as local files.
Files deleted on the drive are moved to Google Drive's Trash, where they can be restored.
Shared-drive permissions (Viewer/Commenter/Contributor/Manager) are enforced on the mounted drive.
Heavy parallel transfers may be throttled by Google API quotas.

Symptom	Cause	Fix
"Access blocked" during sign-in	Workspace admin restricts unapproved apps	Ask the administrator to allow RaiDrive
A shared drive is missing	Account is not a member of it	Ask a drive manager to add you, then reconnect