Viewing Recent Activity in Google Drive
If you or your team uses Google Drive to create, share, or store items, the Activity Stream in Google Drive allows you to easily view changes to your files/folders. The Activity Stream can also be a helpful way to find that file you just created but don't remember the name of!
- From Google Drive, click on the information icon
near the top right to view recent changes, including moving/removing, renaming, uploading, sharing/unsharing, and editing/commenting on files or folders (to see new activity of a specific document or folder, first select that item from drive to view activity for only it)
- For forms, when a form is filled out, you will appear in the Activity stream as the person who "edited" the item.
View collaboration activity
- On your computer, go to your Google Drive.
- On the left, click Activity.
- (Optional) Take action on a pending request:
- Manage access: To review pending access requests, open the sharing dialog of the file. If pending access requests don’t exist for that file, this option doesn’t appear.
- Open comment: Comments notifications appear if you’re either:
- Subscribed to notifications.
- Participating in the specific comment thread.
- Mentioned in a comment within that file.
- Review: Open a request for review and approval of a file.
Find out when a file was added to Drive
To check when a specific file was added to Drive, you can:
- On your computer, go to your Google Drive.
- Right-click your selected file.
- Click File information
Click Details.
- To locate the Created date, scroll through the side panel.
Save and restore recent versions
Only the most recent versions of past documents will be saved, unless you click Keep forever.
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