Files you can store in Google Drive

               

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File sizes

The following are the maximum file sizes you can store in Google Drive:

Documents

• ​Up to 1.02 million characters.
• If you convert a text document to Google Docs format, it can be up to 50 MB.

Spreadsheets

• ​Up to 10 million cells or 18,278 columns (column ZZZ) for spreadsheets that are created in or converted to Google Sheets.
• Up to 10 million cells or 18,278 columns for spreadsheets imported from Microsoft Excel. The limits are the same for Excel and CSV imports.
  • When you convert a document from Excel to Google Sheets, any cell with more than 50,000 characters will be removed in Sheets.
• Up to 100k rows for pivot tables in Connected Sheets.
• Up to 500k rows or 5m cells for extracts in Connected Sheets.

Presentations

• ​Up to 100 MB for presentations converted to Google Slides.

Google Sites (new)

• Up to 15,000,000 characters per page.
• Up to 40,000,000 characters per site.
• Up to 10,000 pages per site.
• Up to 15,000 images per site.

All other files 

• ​Up to 5 TB.

Supported file types

Any file type can be stored in Drive. These are the most common file types you can preview in Google Drive:

Important: The Google Drive preview is a scaled-down version of the complete file and may, when opened, appear slightly different.

General files

• Archive files (.ZIP, .RAR, tar, gzip)
• Audio formats (MP3, MPEG, WAV, .ogg, .opus)
• Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .TIFF, .SVG)
• Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS, .java, .py)
• Text files (.TXT)
• Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg)

Adobe files

• Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
• Illustrator (.AI)
• Photoshop (.PSD)
• Portable Document Format (.PDF)
• PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
• Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF) - best with RGB .TIFF images
• TrueType (.TTF)

Microsoft files

• Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
• PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
• Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
• XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
• Password-protected Microsoft Office files

Apple files

• Editor files (.key, .numbers)