Share folders in Google Drive

Here'due south what people can do with folders afterward y'all share information technology with them:

  • Can organize, add, & edit: If they're signed into a Google account, people can open up, edit, delete, or move any files within the binder. People can also add files to the folder.
  • Can view but: People can run into the folder and they can open all files inside the binder.

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 you change a lot of edit or view permissions at one time, information technology might take time before you see the changes.

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

  • Storage is counted against the person who uploaded the file, not the owner of the folder.
  • When yous manage large folder structures, child and parent folder permissions can be unlike. You can override inherited permissions of child folders to be different than the parent folder. You can also remove parent permissions from a kid folder.

Choose who to share with

Similar files, you can choose to share with simply 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. Nether "People," type the email accost or Google Grouping you want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person tin use the binder, click the Downward arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Transport. An email is sent to people you shared with.

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

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Click the folder you want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. At the top right, click Become shareable link.
  5. Adjacent to "Anyone with the link," click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Choose whether people can edit or view.
  7. Copy and paste the link in an electronic mail 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 add to or remove members from the group, they will gain or lose permission to the files and folders that the group tin can come across or utilise.

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

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

Alter sharing permissions of shared folders

Edit, comment, or view shared files

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

  • Can organize, add, & edit: People can open up, edit, delete, or motility whatsoever files within the binder. People can besides add files to the folder.
  • Can view merely: People tin come across the binder and they can open all files inside the folder.

Later y'all share the binder, y'all tin change how the files inside are shared.

Make someone else the owner of a folder

When y'all transfer ownership of a folder, the files inside go along their original possessor. To change the owners of more than than one binder:

  1. On your computer, go 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 lot desire.
  3. At the top right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the correct of the person'south proper name, click the Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Salve changes.

After you make someone else the owner of a folder, you tin edit the folder 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 can admission it.

To get a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your estimator, become to drive.google.com.
  2. At the top, click Search Drive.
  3. Type in the name of the file.
  4. Correct-click the file.
  5. Click Add to my Bulldoze 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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