Share folders in Google Drive

Here'south what people tin do with folders after yous share it with them:

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

More about folder sharing:

  • If you lot share or unshare folders with a lot of files or subfolders, it might have fourth dimension earlier all permissions change. If you change a lot of edit or view permissions at once, information technology might take time before you meet the changes.

Tip: In the meantime, to provide folder access for new collaborators, use 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 yous manage large folder structures, kid and parent binder permissions can be different. You tin can override inherited permissions of child folders to be different than the parent folder. Y'all can too remove parent permissions from a child folder.

Choose who to share with

Like files, y'all tin choose to share with just specific people.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder y'all want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Under "People," type the email address or Google Group y'all want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person tin utilize the binder, click the Downwards arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Send. An email is sent to people you shared with.

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

  1. On your calculator, become to bulldoze.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 can edit or view.
  7. Re-create and paste the link in an email or whatever place y'all desire to share it.

Share with a Google Grouping

You can share files and folders with Google Groups instead of private people. When you add to or remove members from the group, they will gain or lose permission to the files and folders that the grouping can see or use.

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

Note: Group members will take to open up the file or folder from an invitation or a link before information technology will appear in "Shared with me."

Change sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, comment, or view shared files

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

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

Afterwards yous share the folder, you can modify how the files within are shared.

Make someone else the owner of a folder

When you transfer buying of a binder, the files inside go along their original possessor. To alter the owners of more than than one folder:

  1. On your figurer, become to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that you lot desire to change owners.
    • To select multiple folders, hold Shift and click the folders you want.
  3. At the top correct, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person'due south proper name, click the Downwardly arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Save changes.

After you make someone else the owner of a binder, yous tin edit the binder unless the new possessor decides to modify your access.

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared binder, 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 summit, click Search Bulldoze.
  3. Blazon 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
  • Find files shared with you

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