---
title: Find your way around Drive
type: reference
section: drive
summary: Drive holds your files in one place. Home lists recent items and what needs your action; the left rail reaches every area and your managed folders.
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/drive/page.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform-page-nav.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform-home-overview.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/content-platform/content-platform.constants.ts
  - 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/my-drive, drive/shared-with-you, drive/upload-a-file]
---

Drive is where you upload, find, preview and publish files. Its own description reads **Upload, find, and review content from one place.** Opening it lands you on **Home**, which lists your managed folders, your recent items and the items waiting on you.

## The left rail

The rail runs top to bottom:

1. **New**, holding **New folder**, **New managed folder**, **Upload file**, **Upload folder** and **Upload site**.
2. **Search**, which opens search across Drive with the placeholder **Search in Drive**.
3. **Home**, **My Drive**, **Shared** and **Sites**.
4. A **Workflows** group: **My tasks**, **Retrieval** and **Published by me**.
5. A **Managed folders** section, described below.
6. **Archive** and **Supported files**.
7. **Secure Data Intake**, for the people who administer it.
8. **Open guide**, which opens **Drive Guide**.

Some rows carry a number on the right. **Home**, **Shared**, **Sites** and the **Managed folders** section count what changed and needs your attention there, shown as **99+** above ninety-nine. An **Ops** row appears only for administrators.

## The Managed folders section

The section header reads **Managed folders**, with a plus beside it for **New managed folder**. Under it sit up to three groups, each showing at most five folders and each hidden when it is empty:

- **Space files**, the folders behind Space channels you can see.
- **My managed folders**, the folders you created.
- **Shared**, everything else you can read.

**All managed folders** at the bottom of the section opens the full list. Collapsing the rail hides the whole section; the area buttons remain.

## What each area holds

| Area | What is in it |
| --- | --- |
| **Home** | Recent and available content across your Drive. |
| **My Drive** | Files and folders you uploaded or created. |
| **Shared** | Content shared with you. |
| **Sites** | HTML sites you uploaded. |
| **My tasks** | Items currently waiting for your action. |
| **Retrieval** | Items an application manages, used by retrieval paths. |
| **Published by me** | Items you published within managed folders. |
| **Archive** | Items currently hidden from the default view. |
| **Supported files** | The file types Drive can parse, preview and process. |
| **Secure Data Intake** | Secure upload links issued to people outside Evolve. |

## What Home shows

**Managed folders** comes first: up to five folder cards, each with the folder's name and its state, and a button for **All managed folders**.

Below that are two tabs:

- **Recents**, the items across Drive with the most recent activity.
- **Needs my attention**, a task list with the columns **Action needed**, **Name**, **Assigned**, **Location** and **Requested by**. **Action needed** reads **Review**, **Make changes** or **Approve**. Narrow it with the **Action** filter or the field labelled **Search items needing attention**.

## Searching and filtering

The search field accepts free text and filter tokens. Combine tokens to narrow the result, for example `status:review type:pdf updated:7d`. **Drive Guide** lists the ones Drive understands: `status:review`, `status:approved`, `status:changes_requested`, `type:pdf`, `type:image`, `updated:7d`, `owner:me`, `source:upload` and `source:content-registry`. A token Drive does not recognise is reported under **Not applied as filters** and searched as plain text instead.

Filter controls sit beside the field, with **Clear filters** to drop them. **Status** offers **Draft**, **Pending review**, **Approved**, **Changes requested**, **Rejected** and **Published**.

## The item list

Rows carry **Name**, **Owner**, **Status** and the date they were last modified. Checking rows enables the actions above the table; **Clear** drops the selection. Items shared with you cannot be deleted, archived, moved or copied, and the list says so when you try.

## Related

- [Find the files you uploaded](/help/drive/my-drive)
- [Find what other people shared with you](/help/drive/shared-with-you)
- [Upload a file](/help/drive/upload-a-file)
- [Open and preview a file](/help/drive/open-and-preview-a-file)