Google drive attachments do not show up in sent box

[philbegas]

When I go into Google drive, and select email something as an attachment. It doesn't show up in my sent box, so I have no idea if it sent or anything. It's quite annoying when you're working at a company that does a lot of emailing and sometimes needs proof that a particular email was actually sent off.

[jshow...@gmail.com]

I noticed the same thing.  There is no record in Gmail of the email being sent.  That kills the utility for me.

[justin...@allenlund.com]

I am having the same issue. The only work around I found was to send a copy to myself.

[dtb...@gmail.com]

any solutions to this yet?  I'm having this experience now.  thanks

[ottoso...@gmail.com]

I just found this function on Google Drive myself. Seemed like a really useful function until i looked for sent mail in my "sent" box :(

Please Google fix this.

[cac1031]

I agree that this is annoying--it shouldn't be so difficult to implement--just having the email automatically copied to the Sent folder.  They get around this by letting you email a copy to yourself but this just makes for poorer email organization.

[jeffd...@gmail.com]

1.5 years later, has this not been fixed?

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:41:12 PM UTC-5, philbegas wrote:

[jiwric...@gmail.com]

2014 and still not fixed

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:41:12 PM UTC-4, philbegas wrote:

[ebrahi...@gmail.com]

I am finding that :
click on 'send a copy via email' when emailing an attached document from google drive places an email in my inbox with the attached document.
archiving that message places in the sent mail folder  rather than the archive folder.

This is 1/2 way acceptable for me , ideally I would like the option of having this kind of email going straight into my sent folder and being marked as read.

[vbey...@gmail.com]

I was having problems finding the attachments in sent emails that are lumped into conversations. They simply would not appear. It took a bit of fiddling around but it turns out that when there are multiple attachments going back and forth, the procedure is to first expand the conversation into its individual messages. On Android this is done by simply clicking on the top of the email in question, where it says "x older messages". This expands the conversation into individual emails. Then simply choose the right email and attachment. This makes sense as the conversation has attachments in a lot of the messages and does not allow the user to make a mistake sending the wrong one.

[G-Force]

Feb 2015 - this problem has still not been resolved?

[jdsbu...@gmail.com]

End of March 2015 and still nothing. I guess they don't see it as a problem. They're wrong.

[arbitrary...@gmail.com]

Holy shit Google. Get on with the fix already!

[finn...@tcd.ie]

Yep, this just happened to me, it's extremely annoying, I need proof if I've sent important documents like bills -_-

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 12:41:12 AM UTC+2, philbegas wrote:

[finn...@tcd.ie]

Yep, this just happened to me, it's extremely annoying, I need proof if I've sent important documents like bills -_- Also I wrote a message in French to go with it which took me a lot of time because it's not my first language, and it's going to take me ages to rewrite it and resend the documents in another format in order to have proof of the email...

[001to...@gmail.com]

I am adding my voice to the pile. This is a grave oversight.

[dr.no...@gmail.com]

Thanks google, I am unable to prove that I tried to send my final to my teacher on time and now I get a 0!  I might fail this class because of a dumb oversight that google appears to not care about.

[dennisonl...@gmail.com]

AGREE>>WTF GOOGLE GET it together...what kind of company are you anyways..June 2015!!  REALLY GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!!

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 4:41:12 PM UTC-6, philbegas wrote:

[raywh...@gmail.com]

Still not part of gmail. #gmailfail

[dylanp...@gmail.com]

How do I find who received attachments sent in Google drive

[shvil...@gmail.com]

Is it hopeless to ask for a fix for this after years?....

On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 23:41:12 UTC+1, philbegas wrote:

[mike.coombes8...@gtempaccount.com]

I have this issue too.  It is really frustrating and the Mac helpline was unable to advise me how to solve it.   I hope this serious and annoying issue is now being urgently addressed:  it is over three years since the first post on this.   

[asen...@gmail.com]

Google, come on... I am having the same issue. 

I think it is veeeery simple compared to the algorithms implemented through complicated grid computing infrastracture for your incredible Google search engine.

Please Google, think!!! you will have more power and control to your users! yes... 

I actually find GoogleDrive very useful also for sensitive documents because having all in the cloud allow me to operate from everywhwere. But having the possibility to check the sent attachments among the sent emails folder MUST be possible.

So many years... please!

Alexandro

[alberto...@gmail.com]

Still nothing 

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 6:41:12 PM UTC-4, philbegas wrote:

[Mike Coombes]

No still nothing.  Evidently in the 'too difficult’ box!

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[bradc...@gmail.com]

This is absurd.  I can send important documents to people, and then not even have a record of their email.

Why wouldn't Google fix this?  Do we need to go to another site to talk about this?

[pdig...@gmail.com]

Agreed! Very annoying that there is no response from google about this matter. I guess they want people to check the "send a copy to myself" box as a fix, but this does not help first time senders who don't know. My suggestion to those of you who need the messages to show up in your sent box is to send the doc from your gmail: Click the drive symbol next to the attachment button. One caveat to this is that it will only send a link to the doc and not attach it if its a google doc, instead of a word file or pdf. Make sure you click "attachment" next to "send as", and if it's greyed-out, you can download the file as pdf or word, and re-upload it to your drive. Then you should be able to send it as an attachment.

[paul4...@gmail.com]

Bump

[jermi...@gmail.com]

Still nothing

[imout...@gmail.com]

November 2016 and still not fixed!

I would never again send from the 'Send as attachment..' option if it was not for ANOTHER Inbox annoying feature. Good old Gmail allows you to send to a group. You just type the name of the group and it gets expanded to the member emails. This is NOT POSSIBLE in the Inbox application but it is possible when you use the 'Send as attachment...' from Google Docs. So, two half-finished products none of which does exactly what we want. Go and work for Microsoft guys!

[shaw...@gmail.com]

Well, December of 2016, still nothing. Nice work, Google. Nice work indeed.
Oh and I hear you did nice work on that video chatting app that no one uses! Maybe fix existing products before creating new ones?

[te...@organizemyshtuff.com]

Well, I just Googled, where is my google drive link, and saw this thread beginning in 2012. GOOGLE, ARE YOU THERE?

[timoth...@gmail.com]

Greetings from 2017, nearly 5 years later. 

Still not fixed. 

What's Google doing with their employees? 

[j0860...@gmail.com]

I'm having the same issue. I want to send a file that I received in a zip file. I extract it and move it to my Mac's desktop. However, I am unable to email the file on - crazy stuff !! What is going on Google ?

John

[kyn...@gmail.com]

Dear Google,

I have the same need for a sent attachment to show up in the sent folder - as it seems many others wish to have too.

Apparently, this is not the forum where Google looks for potential improvements.

It is a needed function for Google Docs to really compete with other apps.

So, Google - please listen to the users on this.

Thanks

[normanl...@gmail.com]

Has this ever been resolved? Are the notes attached to Drive lost forever?

[magn...@gmail.com]

Just did it to me tonight.  I sent an email with a google drive doc attached.  I hit 'send' but no evidence of anything in my gmail folders.  This IS 2017, right?