If you connect Google Drive to ChatGPT Projects, you find that the data in the project will not be synchronized and automatically prefetched in advance as you expected, which is usually not a connection failure, but rather the product boundary. OpenAI's current Projects help note clearly states that the Google Drive app does not support sync in projects.
This sentence actually has a great impact. When many users see that "Drive can be added to a project", they will naturally understand it as "the project will always remember this information in the future and access it at any time like a pre-built knowledge base". But the actual behavior is now closer to "you can call Drive to search and access files in the project chat" rather than "the project automatically syncs these files to its own search layer".
So most of the phenomenon you see now is not broken, but you treat "searchable" as "synchronized". These two are not the same thing in ChatGPT Projects.
The most stable way to deal with it is:
1. If you only occasionally check a document, just search for it in the Google Drive app in the project chat.
2. If you need to reuse certain data in a project for a long time, prioritize saving key content as a project source or uploading it directly to the project.
3. Don't expect all associated documents to be indexed early after adding Drive to your project.
This boundary is particularly misleading,Because in other products, "Connect to cloud disks" often means some kind of synchronization by default. But in ChatGPT Projects, OpenAI divides project sources, uploaded files, answers saved to the project, and external app searches into different levels. Google Drive is currently more of an "on-demand" tool than an "auto-sync" data warehouse.
If your current goal is to have your project reference a Drive document for a long time, the fastest way is often not to continue testing sync, but to save the required output to the project source first. This way, the chat will be more stable for subsequent project chats.
In a word, Google Drive will still not pre-sync after adding ChatGPT Project, and the focus is not on fixing, but on accepting this boundary and then choosing the right alternative.
