Show Filecounts on a Specific Directory
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Jason Wang
May 20, 2026, 4:51:12 PMMay 20
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Good day everyone,
Recently I used this command to get the filecounts for a particular drive:
Worked wonderfully! My next hope: is there a similar command that I can point at just a specific directory inside the drive RedPublishing? [i.e. I want the same analysis, but just for one particular directory that I specify.]
Ross Scroggs
May 20, 2026, 4:55:20 PMMay 20
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Get the ID of the folder of interest.
Ross
gam user joe.b...@RedPublishing.com show filecounts select <FolderIDHere>
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Jason Wang
May 26, 2026, 4:04:51 PM (13 days ago) May 26
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Hi Ross,
It didn't take, unfortunately. As a sanity check I ran:
gam user joe....@RedPublishing.com show filecounts select teamdrive "RedPublishing"
and this worked exactly the same as it did previously. I then switched to:
gam user joe....@RedPublishing.com show filecounts select teamdrive 1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv
where that last string is the tail of the URL to the folder I am trying to inspect.
(i.e. the hypothetical link for this example is https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv.)
This is the result:
Show Failed: Shared drive not found: 1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv
Ross Scroggs
May 26, 2026, 4:07:13 PM (13 days ago) May 26
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You want the following, drop the word teamdrive.
gam user joe....@RedPublishing.com show filecounts select 1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv
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Jason Wang
May 26, 2026, 4:12:44 PM (13 days ago) May 26
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Same error came back again:
Getting all Drive Files/Folders for <my actual email> on Shared Drive ID: <the actual folder ID>
User: <my actual email>, Shared Drive ID: <the actual folder ID>, Show Failed: Shared drive not found: <the actual folder ID>
Ross Scroggs
May 26, 2026, 4:40:09 PM (13 days ago) May 26
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Send me a private Meet/Zoom invitation and we'll investigate.
Ross
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Ross Scroggs
May 26, 2026, 5:19:00 PM (12 days ago) May 26
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Wrong: select teamdrive 1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv
Right: select 1me3cpVu6pYkVrC6QRp_RJ-7yCopenTPv
Ross
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Jason Wang
May 27, 2026, 9:56:34 AM (12 days ago) May 27
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Same kickback, unfortunately. Based on the standard-out, it looks like the logic is looking for a Shared Drive that bears the ID I've passed in.
Getting all Drive Files/Folders for bob....@RedPublishing.com on Shared Drive ID: 1dd1cp...
User: bob....@RedPublishing.com, Shared Drive ID: 1dd1cp... , Show Failed: Shared drive not found: 1dd1cp...
Ross Scroggs
May 27, 2026, 10:39:00 AM (12 days ago) May 27
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My mistake, print|show filecounts select only works for Shared Drives.
Try the following: gam user bob....@RedPublishing.com print filelist select <FolderID> countsonly
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Jason Wang
May 29, 2026, 10:37:03 AM (10 days ago) May 29
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Mr. Scroggs, we appear to be in business!
Got 0 Drive Files/Folders that matched query ('[ID of last subfolder scanned, I suppose]' in parents) for bob....@RedPublishing.com...
Owner,Total,application/drive-fs.osx.alias,application/illustrator,application/json,application/msword,application/octet-stream,application/pdf,application/postscript,application/vnd.google-apps.document,application/vnd.google-apps.folder,application/vnd.google-apps.form,application/vnd.google-apps.presentation,application/vnd.google-apps.shortcut,application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled.12,application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12,application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroenabled.12,application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template,application/vns.ms-outlook,application/x-7z-compressed,application/x-compressed,application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey,application/x-iwork-numbers-sffnumbers,application/x-ms-shortcut,application/x-zip,application/x-zip-compressed,application/xml,application/zip,audio/mpeg,image/bmp,image/gif,image/heif,image/jpeg,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/tiff,image/webp,image/x-photoshop,message/rfc822,text/css,text/csv,text/html,text/plain,text/rtf,text/x-url,text/xml,video/3gpp,video/mp4,video/quicktime
bob....@RedPublishing.com,363089,3,2,1,4766,302,137374,2,298,115925,10,18,22,365,7977,1,208,11,1,45,73025,6,5516,1,575,1,1,6,3,15,3,8,7,415,479,7,4,402,5072,4585,2,6,4,1,6,7,4742,54,724,10,2,42,1,18,8
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So there we have it! I imagine this tells us we have 363,089 total items, 3 of which are type osx.alias, 2 are application/illustrator, 1 is a .json, 4755 are msword files etc. Sound about right to you?
Ross Scroggs
May 29, 2026, 11:14:11 AM (10 days ago) May 29
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Looks good.
Ross
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