List your Backup files in a Google Sheet™

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Drive Explorer Google Add-on

This guide is for the official Drive Explorer add-on. Install it to list, export, and audit Google Drive files and folders directly in your spreadsheet or browser.

Install Add-on

You can list the files you uploaded to Google Drive™ using Backup and Sync application with Drive Explorer. First, you need to get the name of the device. On the Google Drive dashboard, expand the computers menu, right click the device and click on Rename. Copy the text in the popup. Refer to the image below.

google drive get backup device name

When you start picking the files in the drive picker to list in the sheet as explained in the getting started section, paste the device name you copied in the previous step. Now, you can pick the files in your backup.

listing backup device files in drive explorer
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Install Drive Explorer from the Google Workspace Marketplace today and start exporting file metadata, folder sizes, and sharing permissions directly inside Google Sheets or on your browser.

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