Create 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.

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.