---
title: Create a folder
type: how-to
section: drive
summary: "Choose New folder, type a name and choose Create. The folder is made where you are: inside the folder or managed folder you are looking at."
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform-create-folder-dialog.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/validations/content-platform-create-folder.ts
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform-move-create-folder.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/content-platform.json
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-drive
ttl_days: 45
related: [drive/create-a-managed-folder, drive/my-drive, drive/upload-a-folder]
---

Choose **New**, then **New folder**. Type a name into **Folder name** and choose **Create**. The folder is made where you are standing, and the confirmation names that place.

## Create it

1. Navigate to the place the folder belongs, whether that is **My Drive**, a folder inside it, or a managed folder you can write to.
2. Choose **New**, then **New folder**. The dialog title is **New folder** and it tells you where the folder will go.
3. Type into **Folder name**. The field suggests **Untitled folder**.
4. Choose **Create**. It reads **Creating…** while it works, then confirms with the folder's location.

The only rule on the name is that it cannot be empty; leading and trailing spaces are trimmed. If you leave it blank, **Create** stays disabled rather than showing an error.

## A folder is not a managed folder

A folder groups items inside a container. It carries no members, no sharing of its own, no snapshots and no review workflow. It inherits whatever access its container has.

Use a managed folder when you want members, sharing and a review or publishing workflow: see [Create a managed folder](/help/drive/create-a-managed-folder).

## Creating a folder while moving something

The move dialog can create the destination as you go. Pick the parent, create the folder there, and move the item into it in one pass.

## If it did not work

- **Couldn't create the folder.** means nothing was made. Try again.
- A message shown in place of the confirmation came from the service; the wording names what it refused.
- Creating a folder inside a managed folder needs write access there. If you hold **Can view**, the folder is created in **My Drive** instead of the folder you were looking at.
- To bring an existing tree of folders in from your computer, see [Upload a folder](/help/drive/upload-a-folder).