Frequently Asked Questions

Drive Guard by 8apps scans your Google Drive and Shared Drives to help you identify who has access to your files and folders. It detects public links, external shares, and risky permissions - all directly within Google Sheets.

Drive Guard is perfect for IT teams, compliance officers, team leads, and anyone looking to monitor and audit file sharing across their Google Drive ecosystem.

Unlike other Drive audit tools, Drive Guard runs directly inside Google Sheets, making it simple, familiar, and export-friendly. It doesn't require external dashboards and keeps your data private and secure within your own Google environment.

You can install Drive Guard directly from the Google Workspace Marketplace. Once installed, find it under Menu > Extensions in Google Sheets.

Yes, Drive Guard works on both personal Gmail and Google Workspace accounts.

We have configured Drive Guard in such a way that you launch it from within Google Sheets. We recommend keeping a dedicated Google Sheet for running these audits from time to time, so that all logs are together.

Yes! Drive Guard lets you scan files and folders in both My Drive and any Shared Drives you have access to, including nested folders.

Absolutely. It flags all external users based on their email domains, so you can quickly identify risky shares and take action.

Yes. Scan results are split into two sheets: one lists each file and its permissions, and the other shows each user and what they can access.

Definitely. You can choose to scan all files or filter by specific types, such as Docs, Sheets, PDFs, images, audio, and more.