Share folders in Google Drive

Here'due south what people can do with folders afterwards yous share information technology with them:

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

More about binder sharing:

  • If you share or unshare folders with a lot of files or subfolders, it might have fourth dimension earlier all permissions alter. If y'all change a lot of edit or view permissions at once, it might accept time before yous encounter the changes.

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

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

Choose who to share with

Like files, you can cull to share with only 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 electronic mail address or Google Group you want to share with.
  5. To choose how a person can use the folder, click the Down pointer Down arrow.
  6. Click Send. An email is sent to people y'all shared with.

You can requite 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 computer, go to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. Click the folder y'all want to share.
  3. Click Share Add approver .
  4. At the height 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. Copy and paste the link in an electronic mail or whatever place you want to share it.

Share with a Google Group

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

  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 the file or binder from an invitation or a link before information technology volition 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 you shared the folder, the people you shared with volition have access to the files inside:

  • Can organize, add, & edit: People can open, edit, delete, or movement whatever files within the folder. People can also add files to the folder.
  • Can view but: People can see the folder and they tin open all files within the folder.

After y'all share the folder, you tin can change how the files inside are shared.

Brand someone else the owner of a folder

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

  1. On your figurer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Select the folder that you want to change owners.
    • To select multiple folders, hold Shift and click the folders y'all desire.
  3. At the summit right, click Share Add approver .
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. To the right of the person's name, click the Downward pointer Down arrow.
  6. Click Is owner.
  7. Click Save changes.

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

Files deleted from shared folders

When someone deletes a file from a shared folder, only the owner can access it.

To get a deleted file back from a shared folder:

  1. On your calculator, go to drive.google.com.
  2. At the acme, click Search Drive.
  3. Type in the name of the file.
  4. Right-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
  • Notice files shared with you

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