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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Allow the script to access your file and you are all set. Go to the Run menu and choose “Enable Drive Watch” to enable the monitor for your Drive. If you however wish to change the frequency so that the notifications arrive, say, every 5 days, you can specify 5 in line #10. The script, by default, will create a cron job that will run once per day at the selected hour. You can also put multiple emails separated by commas. Inside the script editor, go to line #9 and specify the email address where you want to receive the Drive notifications. Here’s how you can set up Google Drive watch for your own Google account in few easy steps:Ĭlick here to make a copy of the Google script in your own Google Drive. It monitors files in your regular Google Drive as well as Shared Drive folders. ![]() The email includes the file link, the date when the file was first created, and the name/email address of the Google Account that last modified and deleted the file. Here’s a sample email notification sent by the Google Drive Watch program. Google Drive Watch is an open-source Google Script that automatically monitors your Google Drive and sends daily email notifications with a detailed list of files that were deleted the previous day. If you are like me who is terrified at the prospect of forever losing important files that were deleted by mistake, Google Drive Watch can help. This automatic cleanup does help reclaim space but if you happen to accidentally delete some important files or folders from your Google Drive, there’s no way to restore them from the trash after the 30-day window. Under the new policy, files that have been in Google Drive’s trash bin for more than 30-days are automatically deleted. That is how it has always been but, sometime this month, Google made one important change to how the trash bin works. When you delete a file in Google Drive, it moves to the trash folder and stays there indefinitely until you manually empty the bin. You can also watch file activity in Shared Drives Monitor your Google Drive automatically and get email alerts when important files and folders are deleted from your Google Drive. ![]()
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