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How-to — task-oriented recipe.
Automate and expedite your workflows by integrating Affinity with Google Drive. Note: This is a uni-directional sync from Affinity to Google Drive. It will only upload already-uploaded files from Affinity to their respective files on Google Drive, not the other way around.

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Getting started

  1. Once you’ve checked the prerequisites in Getting started with native integrations in Affinity, click Settings on the left side of your screen.
  1. Click on the Integrations tab, then click on Google Drive.
  1. Jump to the relevant section below to learn more:

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Affinity Files to Google Drive Folders

For all list entries within a specific Affinity list, the files that have been uploaded to these list entries’ profile pages will also sync to a specific folder in your Google Drive account.
  1. Within the Affinity Files to Google Drive Folders integration, click Select.
  1. Click Configure new solution.
  1. Authenticate your Google Drive account, then click Next.
  • If the authentication is not valid, you may come across this error message. Please try again by reauthenticating.
  1. Select the Affinity list you’d like to sync from. Ideally, you’d also want to have this list approved for auto-upload (see the “How to auto-upload files” section in How to upload, download, and remove files in Affinity) in your privacy settings, as we only sync files that are uploaded to Affinity, not those in the Found in your email section. Note: Once set up, this integration will automatically backfill for already-uploaded files on Affinity profile pages and upload them to the designated Google Drive folder.
  2. Select the Google Drive folder that these uploaded files will sync into. Note: You can only select folders you own. Folders that are shared with you that you don’t own are not supported and will not appear as dropdown options.
  1. Click Finish and you are all set. These files will start syncing into the selected folder in your Google Drive account and will auto-create separate folders for each list entry.
    • You can rename the folders that Affinity has auto-created if needed; they will still sync as expected.
    • You can move the folders that Affinity has auto-created into sub-folders; they will still sync as expected.
    • You can not move the folders that Affinity has auto-created out of the main folder — this will break the sync for those folders.

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Frequently Asked Questions

I have multiple Google Drive integrations active. Why can’t I see some of the files in multiple folder paths/locations?
  • Currently, files that are uploaded to their initial folder path on Google Drive will have their metadata stored in an account-level cache, which prevents them from being uploaded again to other folder paths/locations.
How do I reset the Google Drive integrations that I initially set up? To fully reset the information associated with your account’s Google Drive integration, follow these steps:
  1. Make sure your browser is on the latest version.
  2. Remove the folders from Google Drive.
  3. Delete the integration, then recreate it.
These steps will effectively clear the history of any created integrations and restart syncing files and folders to the newly-designated folder path/location.