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title: Context Files
description: Files are the documents you bring into NetworkOS as context. How Files are scoped, where to find them, and every way to upload or sync them in.
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# Context Files
## The documents your team brings in as context — uploaded once, working everywhere.
### **What are Files**
A **File** is something you bring into NetworkOS — an upload that becomes part of your Workspace's data, like a capability statement, a partner roster, or a research report someone found externally. Where an Artifact is something NetworkOS produces, a File is something your team brings in as context. A File can become a source behind an Artifact, but a File is never itself an Artifact.
Files are indexed and searchable the moment they're uploaded — part of the same knowledge layer that powers the platform's intelligence, alongside your records and Data Packs.
### **How Files work**
- **Every File is scoped to your Workspace, a Mission, or a specific record** — but wherever it's uploaded, it still exists at the Workspace level too. Think of Missions like folders: a File can sit loose at the Workspace level, live inside a Mission, or attach to a record directly — but every File, however it's scoped, is still a Workspace File.
- **Every File can be moved** — into a Mission, out of a Mission, or from one Mission to another. Select the File (or several at once) and use the controls in the page header to move it. Saving isn't a one-way decision.
- **Every File is visible Workspace-wide.** Anyone in the Workspace can access it, regardless of where it was uploaded.
### **Finding your Files**
**Where to find it:** the **Files** page in the main navigation, a record's detail page, a Mission's own page, or **Find / Create (⌘K)** for a direct lookup.
- The main **Files** page shows every File in your Workspace, regardless of where it was uploaded.
- A **record's** or **Mission's** Files view is scoped — it shows only the Files uploaded there.
- **Find / Create** also works as a quick lookup if you know what you're searching for and don't want to browse.
### **Uploading a File**
You can upload a File as specifically as you need — directly to a record, to a Mission, or to the Workspace at large — and everything still rolls up to the Workspace level regardless of where you upload it.
There are a few places to do it:
- **On a record's detail page** — attaches the File to that Person, Organization, or Event directly.
- **On a Mission's page** — scopes the File to that thread of work.
- **On the Files page** — uploads directly to the Workspace, with no record or Mission attached.
- **Find / Create (⌘K)** — you choose the destination as part of the upload flow, whether that's the Workspace or a specific Mission.
**Synced Files**
Uploading isn't the only way in. Connect Google Drive, and files from your synced folders flow into the Workspace automatically and stay current — no manual uploads, no stale copies. Connected files behave like any other File once they're in. Admins can setup their Google Drive to sync to your Workspace, or individual Missions: see [*Connecting your data: Google Drive*](https://help-networkos.collaboration.ai/workspace-settings-overview#google-drive) in Workspace Settings.
**Deleting a File**
On a File you can edit, open the action menu and choose delete.
**Warning:** deleting a File removes it from your Workspace, including anywhere it's referenced, and cannot be undone from the app. You'll be asked to confirm first.
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