Share folders in Google Bulldoze

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

  • Can organize, add, & edit: If they're signed into a Google account, people tin can open, edit, delete, or movement any files inside the folder. People tin can also add files to the folder.
  • Can view but: People tin see the binder and they can open all files within the binder.

More than about folder sharing:

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

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

  • Storage is counted against the person who uploaded the file, non the owner of the folder.
  • When you manage big binder structures, child and parent folder permissions tin be different. You can override inherited permissions of kid folders to be different than the parent folder. You tin can also remove parent permissions from a child folder.

Choose who to share with

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

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder y'all desire to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Nether "People," type the email address or Google Group yous want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person tin can use the folder, click the Down pointer Down arrow.
  6. Click Transport. An e-mail 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 e-mail addresses when you share your folder.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you desire 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 Downward arrow Down arrow.
  6. Choose whether people tin edit or view.
  7. Copy and paste the link in an email or whatever place you want to share it.

Share with a Google Group

You tin can share files and folders with Google Groups instead of private people. When you lot 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 utilize.

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

Annotation: Group members volition have to open the file or binder from an invitation or a link before information technology will appear in "Shared with me."

Change sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, annotate, or view shared files

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

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

Afterwards you share the folder, you can change how the files inside are shared.

Brand someone else the possessor of a folder

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

  1. On your computer, go to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Select the binder that y'all want to change owners.
    • To select multiple folders, hold Shift and click the folders y'all desire.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person's name, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Save changes.

Later on you brand someone else the possessor of a folder, you lot can edit the folder unless the new owner decides to alter your access.

Files deleted from shared folders

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

To get a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Search Drive.
  3. Type in the 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 Drive
  • Terminate or alter how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Discover files shared with you

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