ChatGPT/Space/Q/Can we add information to ChatGPT Spaces from local folders? If so, how?
Can we add information to ChatGPT/Spaces from local folders? If so, how?
- Short answer: Not as a folder. Space takes uploaded files and files from connected apps; neither OpenAI article on Space mentions uploading, syncing, or linking a folder on your computer. You can get a local folder's contents into a Space by uploading its files or by having ChatGPT write them onto a page.
- Answer/Official from Getting started with Space in ChatGPT and ChatGPT Space
- Space holds pages, uploaded files, and folders. Those folders are Space's own organizing folders, not folders on disk.
- Files reach a page in two ways. An uploaded file follows the page's permissions. A file in a connected service, such as Google Drive, keeps that service's permissions, and a link to it does not let page readers open it.
- The documented way to fill a page from material you have is to open a conversation, attach the files, and ask ChatGPT to create or update a page from them.
- Ways to get a local folder in
- Upload the files. Select the files inside the folder and attach them to a page or to a chat that creates the page. A third-party page, fast.io on upload limits, reports no folder upload in ChatGPT and a cap of 80 files every 3 hours; neither claim is confirmed by OpenAI.
- Sync the folder to a connected service. Put the folder in Google Drive or another service ChatGPT connects to, then link or cite those files from a page. Edits on disk reach Space only through the sync, and readers need access in the source service.
- Use a desktop local project as the bridge. A local project in the ChatGPT/App/Desktop gives its chats read and write access to folders on your computer, per Projects and chats. Ask a chat in that project to read the folder and write a page into a named space. Neither article says a local-project chat can create Space pages, so this route is untested.
- Not verified
- Whether a chat in a local project can write into Space.
- Whether Space's upload dialog accepts a whole folder in the desktop app. Check it by dragging a folder onto a page.