Share folders in Google Drive

Hither'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 move any files within the folder. People tin can also add together files to the folder.
  • Can view only: People can encounter the folder and they tin open all files within the folder.

More about folder sharing:

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

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

  • Storage is counted confronting the person who uploaded the file, not the owner of the folder.
  • When you manage large binder structures, kid and parent folder permissions tin can be different. You can override inherited permissions of kid folders to exist different than the parent folder. You can likewise 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 bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Nether "People," blazon the email address or Google Grouping you want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person can apply the folder, click the Downward arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Ship. An electronic mail is sent to people you lot shared with.

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

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you lot want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. At the tiptop right, click Get shareable link.
  5. Next to "Anyone with the link," click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Cull 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 can share files and folders with Google Groups instead of individual people. When you lot add to or remove members from the grouping, they will proceeds or lose permission to the files and folders that the group tin see or use.

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

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

Change sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, annotate, or view shared files

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

  • Can organize, add, & edit: People can open, edit, delete, or move 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 binder.

After you share the folder, you tin can modify how the files inside are shared.

Make someone else the owner of a folder

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

  1. On your computer, become to drive.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that you want to alter owners.
    • To select multiple folders, agree Shift and click the folders you want.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person'south name, click the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Save changes.

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

Files deleted from shared folders

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

To go a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your figurer, get to drive.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Search Bulldoze.
  3. Blazon in the proper noun of the file.
  4. Right-click the file.
  5. Click Add to my Drive Add to My Drive.

Related manufactures

  • Share files from Google Drive
  • Cease or change how a file is shared
  • Transfer file ownership
  • Find files shared with you

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