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title: Audit Google Drive
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updated: "2025-04-23"
category: "Drive Audit & Management"
tags:
  - GAT+
---

# Audit Google Drive

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## Drive dashboard in GAT+

Naviagate to **Drive > Files** and view the one click **summary table**.

This table will allow you to see all the files across your entire domain.

It denotes all files and folder by their exposure and type.

- Total amount of all the files in the domain
- Sharing exposure each file/folder has
- Type of the files

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2023-01-31-16_25_23-GAT.png)

**Left side - sharing permissions**

- View the total amout of Drive files and folders.
- All the files will be devided based on the Sharing permissions they have
  - **Open to public** - all files with public permission
  - **Open to public with link** - all files with public with link permission
  - **Files owned by us shared out** - all files shared out to external users
  - **Shared Drive Files** - all files from the Shared Drives
  - **Private** - all private files on the domain - not shared to anyone 
  - **Orphaned** - orhpaned when the parent folder is missing
  - **Lost Drives** - a local Shared Drive that cannot be audited because it has no local members 
  - **Open to specific external user(s)** - all files that are shared to specific external users (no public or public with link permissions)
  - **Open to specific internal user(s)** - all files shared to specific internal users 
  - **Files owned by others shared in** - externally owned file shared into the domain 
  - **Shared Drive Files with extra shares** - all shared drive files with extra shares 
  - **Trashed** - all Google drive files that are in trash folder

Clicking on the value of each will show the result below.

For example

- Clicking on the Open to Public with link - will apply a filter for all the files (3)
- This filter can be seen by selecting the "funnel icon" - filter button (4)
- Additonal filters can be applied to include or exclude certain data
- On the Permission itself - the sharings can be removed (5)

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2023-02-02-13_51_42-GAT.png)

### File operations

This will show many options that are avaialbe to be prerofmed on the domain Drive files.

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2023-02-02-14_13_36-GAT.png)

- Add/remove custom tags - assign tags to files
- Enforce "contributors cant share" - Apply policy on selected files so editors can or not change permissions and share 
- Enforce "restricted" (disable downlaod/print/copy) - apply  a policy so viwers and commenters can or not see the option to donwload print and copy 
- Remove permissions - allows global removal of permissions
- Empty bin - empty bin from selected user
- Unlock features
  - Create new access request - request access to view content of file or download
  - Access permission list - list of all approved requests to view files content
  - File management - option to change ownership of files add, remove or replace permisions
  - Selected file copy - allow to select files and create copy of them and place them under local user