Share folders in Google Drive

Here'due south what people can do with folders after you share it with them:

  • Can organize, add together, & edit: If they're signed into a Google account, people can open up, edit, delete, or move whatever files within the folder. People tin also add files to the folder.
  • Tin can view only: People can run into the folder and they tin open all files within the folder.

More almost folder sharing:

  • If you share or unshare folders with a lot of files or subfolders, it might take time before all permissions change. If you change a lot of edit or view permissions at one time, it might take time before you run across the changes.

Tip: In the meantime, to provide binder access for new collaborators, use the Sharing URL of a file nested deeply within the folder.

  • Storage is counted against the person who uploaded the file, not the owner of the folder.
  • When you manage large folder structures, child and parent folder permissions can be different. You can override inherited permissions of child folders to be dissimilar than the parent folder. Y'all tin as well remove parent permissions from a kid binder.

Choose who to share with

Like files, you lot can choose to share with only specific people.

  1. On your reckoner, go to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder yous want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Under "People," type the e-mail address or Google Grouping you want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person tin can use the folder, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Ship. An email is sent to people you shared with.

You can requite other people a link to your folder so that you don't have to add email addresses when you share your folder.

  1. On your computer, become to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the binder yous want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. At the top right, click Get shareable link.
  5. Next to "Anyone with the link," click the Down pointer Down arrow.
  6. Cull whether people can edit or view.
  7. Copy and paste the link in an email or any identify yous want to share information technology.

Share with a Google Grouping

Yous tin can share files and folders with Google Groups instead of individual people. When you add to or remove members from the group, they volition proceeds or lose permission to the files and folders that the group can see or utilise.

  1. Create a Google Group.
  2. Add members to the group.
  3. Share the file or folder with the grouping.

Notation: Grouping members will take to open the file or folder from an invitation or a link earlier information technology will announced in "Shared with me."

Change sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, comment, or view shared files

When yous share a folder, the sharing settings for the files and subfolders inside are updated. Depending on how yous shared the folder, the people you shared with volition have access to the files inside:

  • Can organize, add, & edit: People tin open, edit, delete, or motion any files inside the folder. People can also add files to the binder.
  • Can view only: People can see the folder and they can open up all files inside the folder.

Afterward you share the folder, yous can change how the files within are shared.

Brand someone else the owner of a binder

When you transfer ownership of a folder, the files within keep their original owner. To change the owners of more than one folder:

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that you desire to change owners.
    • To select multiple folders, agree Shift and click the folders you lot want.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Avant-garde.
  5. To the right of the person's name, click the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is possessor.
  7. Click Save changes.

Afterward yous make someone else the owner of a folder, you can edit the folder unless the new owner decides to modify your admission.

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared folder, but the owner tin can access it.

To get a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your computer, become to drive.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Search Bulldoze.
  3. Type in the proper name of the file.
  4. Right-click the file.
  5. Click Add to my Drive Add to My Drive.

Related articles

  • Share files from Google Bulldoze
  • Finish or change how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Detect files shared with y'all

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