Accepted file types

Drive accepts the file types in its administered catalogue, and refuses everything else at the point of upload. Supported files in the left rail shows the live list for your Account; the tables below are compiled from the code that defines the default catalogue and the upload limits.

Read the product's own list rather than this page when the two disagree. The catalogue is administered, so an Account can hold fewer or more types than the default.

Reading the live list

Supported files describes itself as Browse every file format Evolve can work with. and carries an Admin-managed badge with the date the catalogue was last published. Its table has the columns File type, Extensions, MIME and Description, grouped as Documents, Media, Archives, Data and Other. Search supported file types filters by extension, MIME type or description.

The upload panel links to the same information as Supported file types, which opens a flat table headed We accept the following files with the columns Type, MIME and Supported actions.

The default catalogue

Evolve ships 56 file types by default, covering 64 extensions. Generated from evolve-front-end/lib/content-platform/supported-file-types.ts by evolve-front-end/scripts/help-generate.mjs.

File type	Extensions	MIME types
Plain Text Document	.txt	text/plain
PDF Document	.pdf	application/pdf
Word Document (Legacy)	.doc	application/msword
Word Document	.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Word Document (Macro-Enabled)	.docm	application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Word Template (Macro-Enabled)	.dotm	application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template
Rich Text Format	.rtf	application/rtf, text/rtf, application/x-rtf, text/richtext
Markdown Document	.md, .markdown	text/markdown, text/x-markdown, text/plain
Mermaid Diagram	.mmd, .mermaid	text/vnd.mermaid, text/x-mermaid, text/mermaid, text/plain
Excel Workbook	.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Excel Workbook (Legacy)	.xls	application/vnd.ms-excel
Excel Workbook (Macro-Enabled)	.xlsm	application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Excel Template (Macro-Enabled)	.xltm	application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroenabled.12, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template
Excel Workbook (Binary)	.xlsb	application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled.12
PowerPoint Presentation	.pptx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
PowerPoint Presentation (Legacy)	.ppt	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
CSV Table	.csv	text/csv, application/csv, text/plain
Tab-Separated Values	.tsv	text/tab-separated-values, text/plain
HTML Document	.html, .htm	text/html
XHTML Document	.xhtml	application/xhtml+xml
Stylesheet	.css	text/css
JavaScript	.js	text/javascript, application/javascript, text/ecmascript, application/ecmascript
JavaScript Module	.mjs	text/javascript, application/javascript, text/ecmascript, application/ecmascript
XML Document	.xml	application/xml, text/xml
JSON Document	.json	application/json
YAML Document	.yaml, .yml	application/yaml, application/x-yaml, text/yaml, text/x-yaml, text/plain
OpenDocument Text	.odt	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
OpenDocument Spreadsheet	.ods	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
OpenDocument Presentation	.odp	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
MP4 Video	.mp4	video/mp4
MP3 Audio	.mp3	audio/mpeg, audio/mp3
PNG Image	.png	image/png
JPEG Image	.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif	image/jpeg
GIF Image	.gif	image/gif
WebP Image	.webp	image/webp
AVIF Image	.avif	image/avif
Icon File	.ico	image/x-icon, image/vnd.microsoft.icon
SVG Image	.svg	image/svg+xml
BMP Image	.bmp	image/bmp, image/x-ms-bmp
TIFF Image	.tiff, .tif	image/tiff, image/tif
Web Font	.woff	font/woff, application/font-woff
Web Font 2	.woff2	font/woff2
ZIP Archive	.zip	application/zip, application/x-zip-compressed, multipart/x-zip
Autodesk Revit model	.rvt	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Revit family	.rfa	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Revit template	.rte	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Revit family template	.rft	application/octet-stream
Graphisoft ArchiCAD project	.pln	application/octet-stream
Graphisoft ArchiCAD archive project	.pla	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Navisworks document	.nwd	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Navisworks fileset	.nwf	application/octet-stream
Autodesk Navisworks cache	.nwc	application/octet-stream
Trimble SketchUp model	.skp	application/octet-stream
Trimble SketchUp backup	.skb	application/octet-stream
Rhinoceros 3D model	.3dm	application/octet-stream
Bentley MicroStation design	.dgn	application/octet-stream

A WebVTT captions file (.vtt) is accepted through the captions control on an audio or video row rather than as a general upload, so it has no row of its own above.

Size and count rules

Generated from evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform-upload-panel.tsx by evolve-front-end/scripts/help-generate.mjs.

Rule	Value
Files per upload	1,000
Multipart transfer starts at	100 MB
Files transferring at once	6
Parts in flight per file	4
Captions file	10 MB

There is no per-file size limit in the browser. The service enforces its own limit and reports This file is too large for the current upload limit. or This file exceeds the available upload limit. when a file is over it.

A site bundle is limited separately, to 50,000 files and 5 GiB in total. See Upload a site.

Archives

A zip, tar, tar.gz or tgz upload is queued for extraction, so its contents become items in Drive rather than a single opaque file. A ZIP holding a site with index.html at its root is treated as a site instead: see Upload a site.

Related

• Upload a file
• Upload failed
• What Drive makes from your files