--- title: "My Drive" url: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/my-drive category: "Delta Drive, Delta Trust & My Drive" tags: ["my drive", "delta drive", "sharing", "storage you own"] summary: "My Drive is Storage Studio's working drive running on storage you already own and pay for. It needs only a Storage Studio trial or licence, works in the app, in Finder and in a browser, and includes sharing with named people." updated: 2026-10-01T05:34:08.000Z --- # My Drive My Drive is Storage Studio's working drive running on storage you already own and pay for. It needs only a Storage Studio trial or licence, works in the app, in Finder and in a browser, and includes sharing with named people. **My Drive** is the same working drive as [Delta Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-drive), running on storage you already own. You connect a storage bucket you pay for, and Storage Studio gives you the drive on top of it: the Delta Drive window, a disk in Finder, a browser view and sharing. It needs only an active Storage Studio **trial or licence** — no Delta Trust, no plan to buy. ## Who can use it Anyone with an active Storage Studio trial or licence on that Mac. If neither is active, the setup sheet says **My Drive needs an active Storage Studio trial or licence.** Setting it up takes an emailed code to the address your trial or licence is registered to — see [Setting up My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/setting-up-my-drive). ## What is different about your own storage It is yours, which is the point and also the trade-off. The app puts it plainly: **You hold the keys — it's working storage, not a protected backup.** Anything that can use your keys can delete it, including you by mistake. For a copy that has to survive a bad day, use [Delta Trust](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-trust). Storage Studio only reads and writes inside one folder of the bucket you name (you choose it when you connect, under **Keep our files under**). Anything else in that bucket is left alone, and removing the drive only ever deletes inside that folder. The secret you enter is stored encrypted and is never shown back to you or anyone else. ## Switching between drives Open **Storage** in the Delta Drive window. Under **Your drives**, each drive you have is listed with the one in use marked **in use**: - **Switch to this** moves you to another drive (a disconnected one shows **Reconnect** instead). Only one drive is live on a Mac at a time, and switching copies no files — each drive keeps its own files, folders, search and settings. - **Disconnect** stops using a drive without deleting anything. Reconnecting needs nothing set up again. - **Connect another…** adds a further storage account. ```mermaid %% caption: What each action on a drive of your own leaves behind flowchart TD A[A drive in Your drives] --> B{Which action?} B -->|Disconnect| C[Nothing deleted, reconnect any time] B -->|Empty and set up again| D[What Storage Studio put there is deleted, starting folders recreated] B -->|Remove our data and forget the key| E[Our files and your keys are gone, the bucket stays] B -->|Destroy this drive| F[The bucket itself is removed too] ``` *Flowchart — What each action on a drive of your own leaves behind. Outline:* - A drive in Your drives - leads to Which action? - Which action? - Disconnect: leads to Nothing deleted, reconnect any time - Empty and set up again: leads to What Storage Studio put there is deleted, starting folders recreated - Remove our data and forget the key: leads to Our files and your keys are gone, the bucket stays - Destroy this drive: leads to The bucket itself is removed too The last three are in the **•••** menu beside the drive, ordered by how much is left afterwards. Each asks you to confirm first. ## Sharing Sharing works on My Drive exactly as on Delta Drive: named people, an expiry, and what each person can do. A share belongs to the drive it was made on — see [Sharing files from Delta Drive and My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/sharing-from-delta-drive). ## If your trial or licence ends My Drive is **paused**, not removed. Nothing in your storage is touched. While it is paused you can only disconnect it or remove Storage Studio's data from it, and what you shared stops opening for the people you shared it with. Reactivate Storage Studio and it picks up where you left off. If it stays paused for a long time, Storage Studio forgets the storage keys you gave it; your files stay in your bucket, and reconnecting simply asks for the keys again. ## Moving to Delta Drive later If you buy a plan that includes Delta Drive, Storage Studio offers **Move My Drive to Delta Drive**. Your files stay exactly where they are in your own storage — nothing is copied or deleted — and your storage accounts, notes, favourites, comments and shares carry over. It can't be undone from that screen. **Not now** changes nothing. See also: [Delta Trust, Delta Drive and My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-trust-delta-drive-and-my-drive), [The My Drive code didn't arrive or doesn't work](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/my-drive-code-didnt-arrive), [When a trial or licence ends](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/when-your-licence-ends). ## What links here - [Delta Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-drive) - [Delta Trust, Delta Drive and My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-trust-delta-drive-and-my-drive) - [Letting another AI assistant read your storage](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/ai-access) - [Setting up My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/setting-up-my-drive) - [Sharing files from Delta Drive and My Drive](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/sharing-from-delta-drive) - [The My Drive code didn't arrive or doesn't work](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/my-drive-code-didnt-arrive) - [The free trial](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-free-trial) - [What the Delta Drive badges mean](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/delta-drive-badges) - [When a trial or licence ends](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/when-your-licence-ends)