Google Drive

Connect and open a private Drive pack

ColloqAid uses files you created through the app or explicitly chose. The known-pack list is not a scan of all files in your Drive. If a remembered file is inaccessible, choose it through the picker once to reconnect it.

1. Open the account menu and choose Sign in, or follow the connection prompt. Continue locally for now skips cloud use.
2. Choose Create → From Google Drive.
3. Click Choose from Google Drive and select the pack in Google’s picker.
4. Confirm the opening/import choice shown before replacing current local work.

Save a pack to Google Drive

1. Finish local drafts and connect your account.
2. Open the Save dropdown and choose Google Drive → Save, or Save as… for a separate new file.
3. In Choose where to save or Save as new Drive file, review the filename and any existing file selection.
4. Read the confirm action: Update selected file or Update matching file changes that existing file; Save as new file creates another file.
5. Confirm and wait for the save result. Later Save updates your owned linked pack.

Find and manage known Drive packs

Account menu → Google Drive opens Packs in Google Drive. Use Search known packs, filters All known packs / Flashcards / Study Notes / Shared packs / Private packs, and Alphabetical: A–Z or Size: Largest first. Refresh known Drive packs refreshes the known list.

Click a pack title to rename it inline. Own private packs can offer Share and Delete; own shared packs can offer Edit, Stop sharing, and Delete. In the shared row’s Edit form, Pack title and Subject * must be filled before metadata saving. A remembered inaccessible file can offer Reconnect or Forget from list. Read the action’s confirmation before changing or deleting a file.

For a file missing from the list, use Choose from Google Drive. Forget from list is a remembered-list action; it is distinct from deleting the actual Drive file.

Reopen a pack updated on another device

Reopening replaces the local view with the selected remote pack. It is not an automatic merge. Check that you are reopening the correct pack, especially when you also have a shared version and an owned private copy.

1. Review the Update available notice. The current browser keeps its already opened version until you choose to load the new one.
2. If you have work to keep, save a separate copy first.
3. Choose Reopen pack or the pack’s reopening action.
4. Review the inline Reopen latest version? confirmation, or Discard local changes? when local edits exist.
5. Confirm the reopening action to load the latest remote version.

Choose what to do with a save conflict

An overwrite requires the second confirmation. If the remote revision changes again or the confirmation expires, review it again. ColloqAid does not silently combine two independently edited pack files.

When a connection expires

Reconnect when a Google action asks you to sign in again. If one known file is inaccessible, use Choose from Google Drive to select that file once rather than expecting the app to search your entire Drive.

Use Save status and Status history to distinguish a pack save from separate profile/app-memory sync. Background app-memory sync does not mean unsaved pack edits have been written to the pack file.

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