Importing files from Google Drive into Resources

Can I pull files from my Google Drive into a project’s Resources folder?

Yes, one file at a time, and only from a link. Open your project, select Resources in the editor sidebar, paste the Google Drive link into the import box and select Import. The file has to be shared as "Anyone with the link" at the moment you import it. There is no Drive browser to click through, no folder import, and Resources never asks you to sign in to Google.

What lands in the folder is a copy, not a link

UNI downloads the file and stores it in your project exactly as a direct upload would. Three things follow from that.

  1. Editing the original in Drive does not change the copy. To update it, import or upload the newer file again. Resources keeps it as a new version of the same file.
  2. Deleting, moving or unsharing the original does nothing to the copy. This is why the import works this way: a link would go blank the moment somebody changed a sharing setting.
  3. The copy counts against the project's storage allowance from the moment it lands.

What it will refuse

UNI is never given access to your Drive

The Resources import holds no Google account connection at all. It fetches the file from the public link, the same way any visitor to that link would.

One other place on UNI can connect to Drive: attaching a file while you chat with the assistant. That connection reaches only the files you select in Google's own picker at that moment. It cannot list your Drive and never syncs, and you can revoke it from your Google account at any time.

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