Share folders in Google Drive

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

  • Tin 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 only: People can see the folder and they can open all files within the folder.

More almost folder sharing:

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

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

  • Storage is counted confronting the person who uploaded the file, non the possessor of the binder.
  • When you manage large folder structures, kid and parent binder permissions can be dissimilar. Y'all can override inherited permissions of kid folders to be unlike than the parent folder. You tin can too remove parent permissions from a kid folder.

Choose who to share with

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

  1. On your figurer, become to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Under "People," type the electronic mail accost or Google Group y'all want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person can use the folder, click the Downward arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Send. An e-mail is sent to people you lot shared with.

You can give other people a link to your folder so that y'all don't take to add email addresses when y'all share your folder.

  1. On your figurer, become to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you 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. Re-create and paste the link in an email or whatsoever place you want to share it.

Share with a Google Grouping

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 gain or lose permission to the files and folders that the grouping tin see or use.

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

Annotation: Group members will accept to open the file or folder from an invitation or a link before it will appear in "Shared with me."

Alter sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, comment, or view shared files

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

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

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

Make someone else the owner of a binder

When y'all transfer ownership of a binder, the files within proceed their original possessor. To modify the owners of more than one folder:

  1. On your computer, get to drive.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that y'all want to modify owners.
    • To select multiple folders, hold Shift and click the folders you want.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Avant-garde.
  5. To the correct of the person'south name, click the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Save changes.

Later on you make someone else the owner of a binder, you can edit the binder unless the new possessor decides to change your access.

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared folder, merely the possessor tin admission information technology.

To get a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your calculator, go to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. At the tiptop, 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
  • Stop or change how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Observe files shared with you

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