Keep your documents in your own SharePoint or Google Drive

Most business software keeps your documents inside itself. That is fine until the day you want them somewhere else. The files sit in a system rather than a drive, and extracting them becomes a project.

Diract stores documents in one of three places, and you choose which.

The three stores

• Diract storage. Always available. No setup at all.
• Your Google Drive. Appears once you connect it.
• Your SharePoint or OneDrive. Appears once you connect it.

Connect one of your own and the documents live in a drive your business already owns, backs up and controls. Your IT policy applies to them because they are in your drive.

Choosing which one is used

The path is Admin, then Storage. The line under Document storage names the store your next document will be saved to, for example New documents are being saved to Diract storage.

The screen lists all three, connected or not, so the choice is visible before any setup. Click the one you want and it saves straight away.

No preference uses the default order. Diract storage first, then your own drive where Diract storage fails. Picking your own drive reverses that order.

The status is real

Each store carries its own status. Reachable means Diract can save there right now. Not set up means there is no connection, or the connection has stopped working.

That status checks live every time somebody opens the screen. So a store can read Not set up even though somebody connected it months ago. That is the answer worth having, because it describes whether the connection still works.

The connections themselves sit further down the same screen, each naming its own account. Connected, Not connected, and Finish setup where Microsoft has approved Diract but nobody has chosen a site. Then Not working, where the account no longer answers.

What happens when a store is unreachable

A drive can be unreachable for reasons that have nothing to do with you. A token expires, an administrator changes a permission, somebody moves a site.

Diract does not fail the upload over it. It falls through to the next store in the order and names the one it used. The document saves either way, and its location is never a mystery.

Why this is the part worth checking before you buy anything

Software that holds your documents decides how hard it is to leave. That is true of us as much as anyone, which is why the choice is in the product rather than in a support ticket.

• The files are in a drive you already own. Your access controls and your retention policy apply to them, because they are your drive's files.
• Your existing backup already covers them. Nothing new to arrange.
• Leaving does not mean extracting. The documents are where they were the whole time.

Current as at 12 September 2026. Diract changes often, so check the screen before relying on a detail here.