Files

Open Files#

Open Files from the account menu, or click Open in Files in a project. The sidebar has Home, Recent, Favorites, Generated (Images, Video, and Audio), Folders, and Projects.

Upload a file#

Click Upload, or drop a file into the window. Your library is private to your account. Text files show Indexing, then Ready for chat. Until a file is ready, a chat may not be able to read its contents.

Supported types include plain text, Markdown, CSV, HTML, JSON, PDF, Word, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, and video. Search this view searches only the section you’re in. You can sort by Newest, Oldest, Name, Largest, or Type, and switch between List and Grid.

Manage a file#

Click a file to open the inspector. It shows a preview when one is available, along with Name, Kind, Size, Added, and index status. From the inspector, you can favorite, rename, move to a folder, add to projects, download the original, or delete the file.

Deleting a file removes it from your library and from every project it was added to. You can’t undo this. Deleting a folder keeps its files in your library, outside any folder.

New folder creates a folder. Projects lists the Chat projects you can add files to.

Use a file in a chat#

In a regular chat, the assistant can search your library by name, type, source, date, or contents, and open a match. In a project’s chats, it searches the files added to that project unless you ask it to search your whole library. Incognito chats don’t use Files. Models that support images or video can read those files. Text-only models can’t.

You can’t attach files in the composer yet. The plus button shows Attach (coming soon). Upload them in Files instead. See Projects. Generated → Images holds images you create in Images, and you can’t upload to it.