How to Connect Multiple Google Drive Accounts to Claude
Claude’s Google Drive connector authorizes one Google account at a time. Connecting a second Drive replaces the first rather than sitting beside it, so a question that spans your personal Drive and your work Drive cannot be answered in a single conversation natively. Carly holds your OneDrive accounts, and every mailbox and calendar on both sides, in the same place.
There is a working route to both, and it is worth understanding why the native connector stops where it does before you set it up.
1. Add your Google Drive accounts to Carly
- Sign in at carlyassistant.com.
- Open carlyassistant.com/integrations.
- Find Google Drive, click Connect, and authorize the Drive.
- Click Connect again for the next one, and keep going for as many Drives as you want.
If a Google Workspace account requires administrator review, ask the Workspace administrator to approve the connection before you finish. Starting that early saves a day.
Each Drive stays separate. Nothing is merged, copied, or synced between them.
Carly connects to thousands of apps, so while you are on that page you can add your inboxes, calendars, CRM, and anything else you want Claude to reach through the same connector.
2. Add Carly to Claude
- Open Customize → Connectors in the Claude app or on claude.ai.
- Add a custom connector.
- Paste
https://carlyassistant.com/mcp/. - Continue to authorization and sign in to the Carly workspace holding the Drives.
Custom connectors require a paid Claude plan, which is worth knowing before you start. The first-party directory connectors are available more broadly, but a remote connector like Carly’s is a Pro or Max feature.
What Claude’s Drive connector does with one account
Google Drive sits in Anthropic’s Connectors Directory as part of the Google Workspace connectors, generally available since around February 2026. Connected to a single Google identity, Claude can find files, analyze and summarize them, cross-reference several documents, and use their contents as grounding for an answer. With file creation and code execution switched on it can also save files it generates into a folder you pick.
The people who hit this hardest are the ones with a legitimate split: a personal @gmail.com Drive holding years of documents, a Workspace Drive at work, and often a client Workspace on top of that.
Native Drive connector versus Carly in Claude
| Need | Claude’s Drive connector | Carly connector |
|---|---|---|
| Search one Google Drive | Yes | Yes |
| Hold several Google identities at once | No | Yes |
| Compare files across two Drives in one chat | No | Yes |
| Save a new file to a chosen Drive | Yes | Yes |
| Edit, move, or rename an existing file | No | Yes |
| Act when a file arrives | No | Yes |
| Run the same work outside Claude | No | Yes |
The last two rows matter more than they look. Claude’s relationship with your Drive lasts as long as the chat window. Carly runs on triggers in the cloud, so an invoice that arrives at two in the morning is filed against the right client in the right Drive before you wake up, and the same workflows keep running when you are not in Claude at all.
Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Connect it on the integrations page, or start with Google Drive.
Quick fixes when a Drive does not appear
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| The same Google account connected twice | Remove the duplicate and reconnect with Use another account |
| Workspace blocks authorization | Ask the Workspace administrator to approve Carly |
| Claude will not add a custom connector | Custom connectors need a paid plan |
| Claude searches the wrong Drive | Use the full address and require the source account in the output |
| A file is missing from results | Confirm it lives in that identity’s Drive rather than a shared folder owned elsewhere |
Frequently asked questions
Can Claude connect two Google Drive accounts natively?
No. The Google Workspace connector authorizes a single Google identity, and connecting another one replaces it. Reaching a second Drive natively means disconnecting and reauthorizing.
Does a shared folder solve this?
Only partially, and it does not scale. Sharing a folder from one Google account to another makes those specific files visible through one identity, but you maintain the sharing by hand and the second Drive’s own structure stays out of reach.
Do the Drives get merged?
No. Each Google identity stays separate and keeps its own folders and permissions. Carly routes each request to the account you name.
Can Claude edit a file that already exists in Drive?
Not through the native connector. It can save new files when file creation and code execution are on, but changing, moving, or renaming an existing file is outside what it does.
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