Setting up Google Drive

All storage providers, both bucket-based and cloud-drive, live in the same place inside VOD Manager.

• Sign in to VOD Manager and open Storage from the top navigation.
• Click Add storage profile. The provider list appears with bucket providers (R2, B2, AWS, Wasabi) at the top and cloud-drive providers below.

Choosing Google Drive starts an OAuth flow — the standard sign-in dance you've done dozens of times when an app asks you to "Sign in with Google."

1. Click Google Drive in the provider list.
2. Click Connect Google Drive. VOD Manager will redirect you to Google's account picker.

If you're signed in to more than one Google account in your browser, Google asks which one. Pick the account that holds the storage you want to use, then read what VOD Manager is asking for.

1. Choose a Google account from the picker.
2. Read the consent screen. VOD Manager requests one Drive scope: drive.file.
3. Click Continue to approve. Google sends you back to VOD Manager.

Once Google sends you back, VOD Manager pre-fills a friendly name like "Google Drive (your-email@gmail.com)". Keep it or rename it to something you'll recognize on the storage list.

• Use a name that makes sense to you, like "Main archive" or "Backup Drive."
• VOD Manager creates a top-level folder called VOD Manager the first time it writes a file. All future archives nest inside that folder, organized by Twitch channel and stream date.

A storage profile is not used until you tell VOD Manager which Twitch accounts should save here. You can have multiple storage profiles and route different Twitch accounts to different storage targets.

• On the storage profile page, click Assign Twitch accounts.
• Pick one or more Twitch accounts from the list of accounts you have linked to VOD Manager.
• Save. Future VODs from those accounts will write here automatically once Twitch finishes processing each stream.