diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2337651..0b75626 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: ohcleandat
 Type: Package
 Title: One Health Data Cleaning and Quality Checking Package
-Version: 0.3.1
+Version: 0.3.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Collin", "Schwantes", email = "schwantes@ecohealthalliance.org", role = c("cre", "aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4014-4896")),
     person("Johana", "Teigen", email = "teigen@ecohealthalliance.org", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6209-2321")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f42edd5..1d91398 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# ohcleandat 0.3.2
+
+* Fixing issue with `download_google_drive` where search pattern is over applied.
+
 # ohcleandat 0.3.1
 
 * Explicitly adding `set_diff` function which was previously a hidden dependency on the {ecohealthalliance/airtabler} package
diff --git a/R/download_googledrive_files.R b/R/download_googledrive_files.R
index 11415fe..ca8a98d 100644
--- a/R/download_googledrive_files.R
+++ b/R/download_googledrive_files.R
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #'   download_googledrive_files(
 #'   key_path = here::here("./key.json"),
 #'   drive_path = "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/asdjfnasiffas8ef7y7y89rf",
-#'   search_pattern = "*.xlsx",
+#'   search_pattern = ".*\\.xlsx",
 #'   out_path = here::here("data/project_data/")
 #'   )
 #' }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ download_googledrive_files <-
     # recursive search of drive folder for a given file type
     files <- googledrive::drive_ls(
       path = googledrive::as_id(drive_path),
-      recursive = T,
+      recursive = TRUE,
       pattern = search_pattern,
       type = googledrive::drive_mime_type(MIME_type)
     )
@@ -47,27 +47,20 @@ download_googledrive_files <-
     files_w_ext <- files |>
       dplyr::mutate(
         extension = purrr::map_chr(drive_resource, `[[`, "fileExtension"),
-        path = paste0(id, ".", extension)
+        path = paste0(id, ".", extension),
+        local_path = paste({{out_path}},path,sep = "/")
       )
 
     # download all files
-    purrr::map2(
+    downloaded_files  <-  purrr::map2_df(
       .x = files_w_ext$id,
-      .y = files_w_ext$path,
-      ~ googledrive::drive_download(.x, path = paste0(out_path, .y), overwrite = TRUE)
+      .y = files_w_ext$local_path,
+      ~ googledrive::drive_download(.x, .y, overwrite = TRUE)
     )
 
-    # return list of downloaded files for tracking
-    file_list <-
-      list.files(path = out_path,
-                 pattern = search_pattern,
-                 full.names = T)
+    # return local file paths
 
-    # return list of downloaded files for tracking
-    file_list <-
-      list.files(path = out_path,
-                 pattern = search_pattern,
-                 full.names = T)
+    file_list <- downloaded_files$local_path
 
     return(file_list)
   }
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index dd2d7a8..3cb01e8 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ utils::globalVariables(
   "extension",
   "log_response_id",
   "n",
+  "path", # used in download_googledrive_files in mutate
   "rowid",
   "entry_field",
   "entry_field_dupe"
diff --git a/man/download_googledrive_files.Rd b/man/download_googledrive_files.Rd
index 3ae687a..4fea178 100644
--- a/man/download_googledrive_files.Rd
+++ b/man/download_googledrive_files.Rd
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ and is not deterministic when recursively searching. Please pay attention to wha
   download_googledrive_files(
   key_path = here::here("./key.json"),
   drive_path = "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/asdjfnasiffas8ef7y7y89rf",
-  search_pattern = "*.xlsx",
+  search_pattern = ".*\\\\.xlsx",
   out_path = here::here("data/project_data/")
   )
 }