Share folders in Google Drive

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

  • Tin organize, add, & edit: If they're signed into a Google account, people tin open, edit, delete, or motility any files within the folder. People can also add files to the folder.
  • Tin view merely: People tin run into the folder and they can open all files within the folder.

More than about folder sharing:

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

Tip: In the concurrently, to provide folder 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 y'all manage large binder structures, child and parent binder permissions can exist dissimilar. You tin can override inherited permissions of child folders to be different than the parent binder. You tin also remove parent permissions from a child folder.

Choose who to share with

Like files, y'all can choose to share with only specific people.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you desire to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. Under "People," type the electronic mail accost or Google Group you want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person can utilise the folder, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Transport. An email is sent to people you shared with.

Yous tin can give other people a link to your folder so that y'all don't have to add together email addresses when you lot share your binder.

  1. On your reckoner, become to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder yous want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. At the top right, click Get shareable link.
  5. Adjacent to "Anyone with the link," click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Choose whether people can edit or view.
  7. Re-create and paste the link in an email or any place y'all want to share information technology.

Share with a Google Group

You tin share files and folders with Google Groups instead of individual people. When you add to or remove members from the group, they will gain or lose permission to the files and folders that the group 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: Grouping members will have to open the file or binder from an invitation or a link before it will announced in "Shared with me."

Change sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, comment, 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 you shared with volition take access to the files inside:

  • Can organize, add, & edit: People tin open, edit, delete, or move any files within the folder. People tin as well add together files to the binder.
  • Tin view only: People can encounter the binder and they tin can open all files within the binder.

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

Make someone else the possessor 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, go to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that you want to change owners.
    • To select multiple folders, concord Shift and click the folders you desire.
  3. At the peak right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person's name, click the Down pointer Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Salvage changes.

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

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared folder, simply the possessor can access it.

To get a deleted file dorsum from a shared folder:

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Search Bulldoze.
  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
  • Find files shared with y'all

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