---
title: "Read/write to Drive (Drive.x)"
slug: "readwrite-to-drive-drive"
updated: 2024-08-21T13:09:12Z
published: 2024-08-21T13:09:12Z
canonical: "support.lusid.com/readwrite-to-drive-drive"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Read/write to Drive (Drive.x)

You can use the `Drive.*` providers supplied by FINBOURNE to interact with data stored in [Drive](/v1/docs/drive), LUSID's built-in file repository and manager.

Providing you have suitable [access control permissions](/v1/docs/creating-policies-to-control-access-to-providers-for-different-luminesce-end-users), you can:

- Read from CSV, Excel, SQLite, XML, Parquet and plain text files stored in Drive, perhaps in preparation for loading investment data into LUSID.
- Write to files of the same types (plus PDF and Word), perhaps having retrieved investment data from LUSID.
- Search a folder or folders for files.
- Perform operations such as moving, renaming and deleting files.

| **To interact with...** | **Read from using the ... provider** | **Write to using the ... provider** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CSV and similarly-structured files | [Drive.Csv](/v1/docs/drivecsv) | [Drive.SaveAs](/v1/docs/drivesaveas) |
| Excel files | [Drive.Excel](/v1/docs/driveexcel) |
| PDF files | N/A |
| Word files | N/A |
| SQlite files | [Drive.Sqlite](/v1/docs/drivesqlite) |
| XML files | [Drive.Xml](/v1/docs/drivexml) |
| Text files | [Drive.RawText](/v1/docs/driverawtext) |
| Apache Parquet files | [Drive.Parquet](/v1/docs/driveparquet) |
| Find files | [Drive.File](/v1/docs/drivefile) | N/A |
| Move, rename and delete files | N/A | [Drive.File.Operation](/v1/docs/drivefileoperation) |