Google Drive is great for editing and sharing inside your team. It just can't let a partner log in over SFTP, take in files from an outsider, or show you who did what. Files.com adds all of that on top of any Drive: your own My Drive or Shared Drive, or a client's or partner's. People can send, receive, and share the files in it, and you get a full record of every action. You don't have to use Google Workspace yourself to trade files with someone who does.
Google Drive is built for people editing and sharing Docs, Sheets, Slides, and files. It was never built for partner logins over SFTP, automated file routing, or sending files out with a full record of who got what. Files.com mounts or syncs against any Drive you can reach and adds that layer on top. It’s controlled and logged from your side, and nobody’s way of working in Drive changes.
The Drive can be your own My Drive or Shared Drive. Or it can belong to a client, partner, or vendor who runs on Google and expects you to exchange through their Shared Drive. Pull files out of a Drive someone else owns, drop files into theirs, or do both at once. It all stays controlled and logged on your side, so you keep the record even when you don't own the Drive.
Connect once with a service account and a single connection covers the whole share. That is how an IT team sets up a workflow. Or let each person mount their own Drive, where they see exactly what they already see in Drive. Either way, the same Files.com control, logging, and connection methods sit on top, so you don’t pick between team-wide setup and per-person access.
Files.com mounts a Drive folder and adds SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV on top of it, plus the API and CLI, from one place. Drive offers none of these to partners or apps directly. They reach the files in Drive through Files.com instead.
Drive names files by an ID code instead of by their path. It even allows two files with the same name in one folder, so there’s no clean way to ask for a file by its path. Files.com puts a normal path-based API, SDKs, and CLI in front of Drive and sorts the IDs out underneath, so your code works in plain folders and filenames, with nothing in Drive’s API to work around.
A mount passes every action through to Drive in real time. There’s no copy and no migration, so Drive stays the home for the team. When the Drive belongs to someone else, a sync moves only the files the job needs, in the direction you pick.
Files.com shows Drive right next to Microsoft 365, S3, Azure Blob, and your own servers in one place, with the same folder permissions and the same full record across everything.
Files.com adds a layer of control over Drive content: who can see which folders, transfers that keep permissions intact, tracking on every file you send out, and one place to manage files across both Drive and Microsoft 365.
Hand each person, partner, or app the exact folders they need and nothing else, with nine levels of permission per user or group.
Every access, download, and permission change is logged in one place and can be exported to your security tools. That’s the kind of record Drive’s own logging was never built to produce, so you can answer who-did-what when the audit asks.
People sign in with your company login from any major provider, with two-factor enforced right down to the SFTP, FTPS, and WebDAV connections. When someone leaves, you cut their Drive access in one place.
Files.com can encrypt files automatically as they move. When you send a file out, the share link can carry a password, an expiration date, a limit on who can open it, a watermark, and a click-through NDA.
Mount a Drive folder as a Files.com folder. It can be My Drive, a Shared Drive, or a shared folder. Every action passes straight through in real time. Best when Files.com is the live way people and apps reach Drive.
Copy files on a schedule between Files.com and Drive, in either direction, so the files end up in both places. Drive-to-Drive syncs convert native Google file types for you automatically.
Run a rule when a file arrives, on a schedule, or when a condition is met, with the Drive mount as the source, the destination, or both. No Apps Script or Cloud Functions to write.
Teams that put Files.com in front of Drive usually swap the Google desktop app for the Files.com Desktop App. One app gives a person their Files.com files plus their SharePoint, Box, OneDrive, and Drive, all through Files.com and all controlled and logged the same way.
Contributors upload into shared Drive folders, or through a Files.com inbox with no Google account, and Files.com files them where they belong for processing, review, or long-term storage.
Outside parties upload into Drive without a Google account, and Files.com moves the files into locked-down folders with the right permissions, encryption, and a full record of who did what.
IT manages files living in both Drive and Microsoft 365 from one place, with the same permissions and the same record across both.
Your team runs on Microsoft 365, S3, or your own servers, but a client or partner delivers through their Google Shared Drive. Files.com syncs against that Drive on a schedule to pull their files in or push yours out. It stays controlled and logged on your side, with no Google account for anyone on your team.
Outsiders upload into Drive folders without a Google account; Files.com files and sorts them on its own, with every upload logged.
Learn MoreSend Drive files out with branded, tracked share links. Passwords, expiration dates, watermarks, and recipient controls are included.
Learn MoreRoute and process files on the Drive mount: move, encrypt, convert, and hand off across the rest of your systems.
Learn MoreEvery access, download, and permission change against the Drive mount kept in a tamper-proof, exportable record.
Learn MoreServe the Drive folder over SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV from one place. Drive doesn’t offer these connection methods directly.
Learn MoreMove and mirror files between Drive and other servers or clouds on a schedule, for archives, staged ingest, and pipelines that span clouds.
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