Share folders in Google Drive

Hither'due south what people tin do with folders later on you lot share it with them:

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

More than about folder sharing:

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

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

  • Storage is counted against the person who uploaded the file, not the owner of the folder.
  • When you lot manage large folder structures, child and parent binder permissions tin exist unlike. You can override inherited permissions of child folders to exist different than the parent folder. Yous can likewise remove parent permissions from a child binder.

Choose who to share with

Like files, you can cull to share with simply specific people.

  1. On your estimator, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Under "People," type the email address or Google Group you want to share with.
  5. To cull how a person can use the binder, click the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Send. An email is sent to people you shared with.

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

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

Share with a Google Group

You lot can share files and folders with Google Groups instead of individual people. When y'all add to or remove members from the group, they will gain or lose permission to the files and folders that the grouping tin run across or use.

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

Note: Grouping members will have to open up the file or folder from an invitation or a link before it will announced in "Shared with me."

Modify 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 you shared the binder, the people yous shared with will have access to the files inside:

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

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

Make someone else the possessor of a folder

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

  1. On your computer, get to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Select the binder that y'all want to alter owners.
    • To select multiple folders, concur Shift and click the folders y'all want.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person's proper noun, click the Down pointer Down arrow.
  6. Click Is possessor.
  7. Click Save changes.

After you make someone else the possessor of a folder, you tin can edit the binder unless the new owner decides to change your admission.

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared folder, just the owner tin can access information technology.

To become a deleted file dorsum from a shared folder:

  1. On your estimator, go to bulldoze.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
  • Stop or alter how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Observe files shared with you

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