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Drive
Your Google Drive is a decade of accumulated sharing you can’t see. The tax return you sent as “anyone with the link” in 2023. The folder a contractor still has edit access to. Six copies of the same deck. Neither Google nor Microsoft gives you one place to see all of it, let alone fix it in a tap.
Airo does. Drive connects to the drives you already have — Google Drive and OneDrive — and gives you the view they won’t: everything you’ve shared, ranked by how risky it is, with one-tap fixes; the duplicates you can clear; and rules that keep it tidy without you.
It isn’t a place to put files. It’s a control panel for the ones already there.
Quick start
- Open Drive in the sidebar. The first time, Airo scans your connected drives — the audit builds itself; there’s no setup step.
- Land on Home. Search any file, skim what changed in Latest, and see the counts that need you under In your drive.
- Open Risky shares and fix the worst ones first — they’re sorted critical-first, and each fix is a single tap.
- Clear space in Duplicates, and set a Rule or two so the cleanup keeps happening on its own.
Home
The Home tab is where you start.
- Ask for any document — search across your whole Drive by name. Results flag anything shared publicly or with a domain, so a search doubles as a spot-check.
- Latest — the files that changed most recently, so the drive reads as something that’s alive, not an archive you have to remember to open.
- In your drive — a count for Risky shares, Duplicates, and Automation rules, each a tap into the full view.
The scan is automatic — an initial pass when you first connect, then a daily refresh. Need it sooner? Hit Scan now.
Viewing files
Select a file to preview it inside Airo. Images have zoom, fit, rotate, and pan controls. PDFs have page navigation, zoom, selectable text, and search. Google Docs and Slides export to a read-only PDF; supported OneDrive documents and presentations convert to PDF too. Google Sheets and supported Excel, ODS, CSV, and TSV files open as read-only workbooks with sheet tabs and selectable cells. The same preview opens from Drive file links and attachment chips in your email.
Native PDFs and supported audio/video files load in chunks on demand, up to 1 GiB. Other previews download up to 20 MiB; Google Workspace exports also have Google’s 10 MB export limit. Spreadsheet previews have limits on expanded workbook size and visible cells, and do not reproduce charts or all formatting. Use Open in Drive or Open in OneDrive for the full document, editing, comments, or downloading large originals. Files that cannot be previewed show this action prominently. For shared email links, you can choose another connected account if the first account cannot access the file. Previews use your existing file permissions and are not saved as permanent copies in Airo.
Risky shares
Every file with a sharing risk, worst-first, tagged Critical, High, Medium or Low. Airo flags the exposure that actually matters:
| Risk | Example |
|---|---|
| Public link | “Anyone with the link can edit this file” |
| External user | Shared with someone outside your org who can edit |
| External domain | Anyone at a partner domain can find and open it |
Each card explains the risk in plain language and puts the fix right there:
- Revoke public link — kill the “anyone with the link” access.
- Revoke a person — remove one specific person’s access.
- Trash file — move it to Drive trash.
Fixes apply the moment you tap — the card updates or disappears — and you can always re-share later. No walking into a Share dialog, one file at a time, the way you would in Google’s own UI.
Duplicates
Airo groups identical files — by content hash, or by matching name and size — and picks a keeper for you. Each group shows how much space you’d reclaim.
Keep the recommended copy or tap a different one to promote it, then Trash the other copies — or Dismiss the group if they’re duplicates on purpose. Native docs that carry no byte size (Google Docs, Sheets) still group so you can review them; there’s just nothing to reclaim.
Rules
Rules turn a one-time cleanup into an ongoing one. A rule is a match and an action.
Match on any of: name contains, MIME types, older than N days, larger than N MB — and, under advanced filters, a name regex, a parent folder, an owner, or shared-files-only.
Then pick an action:
- Move to trash
- Permanent delete
- Revoke public links
- Move to folder
Start from a template — Trash old screenshots, Trash large stale files, or Revoke public links — or build your own.
Every rule starts disabled. Hit Preview to see exactly what it would match before you turn it on, so a rule never deletes something you didn’t expect. Turn it on and it runs on its own; each run reports how many files it matched and acted on.
Google Drive and OneDrive, one view
Drive is provider-agnostic. A Google account and a Microsoft account audit into the same screens, so if your personal files live in Google Drive and your work files in OneDrive, this is the one place that sees both — something neither vendor will ever show you.