I had a folder with the name “CBSE 2020 2021” which keeps on poping up though i removed it, It seems it had some links ,how could i remove this folder
I am having hardtime removing this folder
To delete folders click the My Drive option which lists all the folders in your drive and then u can select whatever folder you want to delete and then right-click and select remove or click the trash can icon.
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When I am deleting a file from Google drive which someone else shared with me, it showed me a message like "one removed file is still accessible by collaborators".
It no longer appears in that folder, but will it be shown in "shared with me"? How can I delete it completely?
tl;dr
To completely delete file in gdrive of owner of the removed file:
Search for is:unorganized owner:me
Delete file
Remove it from trash (delete it permanently)
Explanation:
This is a common problem with Google Drive. Files removed from the Shared folder loses the location pointer and stays on the drive of the owner of the file with lost location property (cannot be accessible in standard way as we browse files in Google Drive).
The removed file can be found by searching for it by name or content, or using suggested the search phrase is:unorganized owner:me.
A scenario that commonly causes this problem and fix:
U (as you) and S(someone else) have shared folder with name Cats pictures
U add cat.jpg (and U is an owner of this file then)
S don't like this picture and use option Remove
The message removed file are still accessible by collaborators pops up
File cat.jpg is removed from shared folder Cats pictures
S is happy and never see a cat.jpg in Cats pictures folder
U cannot see this file either in Cats pictures folder but cat.jpg is still on U private Google Drive!
If U search in Google Drive for cat.jpg it find the file, and it location will be - (file lost it's location in folder tree).
The file found by U can be moved to Trash and then completely deleted 🎈
You mentioned you'd deleted the file from Google drive which was shared by someone else with you. After deleting you saw a message that stated, "one removed file is still accessible by collaborators". Perhaps the one who is sharing the file is one of the mentioned collaborators, or depending on how this document was shared, other members of the group.
Hope this helps!
Rename file a number then delete twice or 3 times it won't recognize it I had 6and there gone now
How to share Google Drive folders and subfolders so that users can decide what to sync to their hard drive?
Google Drive's sync software (the one you install on your computer) only let's you decide which top level folders you want to sync. You cannot not sync subfolders alone.
You can however share folders in a way that allows your users to put them into the root folder directly. This way, they can unselect them individually for syncing.
Say you have the following folder structure
- Project [parent]
-- Planning files [subfolder 1]
-- Execution files [huge subfolder 2]
Instead of sharing the Project folder to a user, do individually share the Planning files and Execution files folder. This way, users can link both directly into their My Drive root folder.
In the sync client they're now top level folders and can be individually deselected.
If you would instead share the Project" folder, a user would need to "split up" the single share, to move e.g. "Execution files out of it. This breaks sharing of the latter for everyone.
By the way, Google Drive apparently seems to be able to have a single folder or file in two or more parent folders. This would also allow for a sharing concept. However, the new Google Drive interface, introduced in 2014 (?) hides this functionaliy. In the old Google Drive, you can use "Move to", then hold CMD/CTRL and selected more than one parent.
Good tip, but this doesn't work very well if your folder structure is like this:
- Projects
-- Project ABC
--- Planning Files
--- Execution Files
-- Project DEF
--- Planning Files
--- Execution Files
A solution might be the hidden feature of adding a folder to multiple parents. You can still do this in the new drive interface by selecting a folder and pressing SHIFT+z. Use that to add all Planning files to a Planning folder.
For those of you who want to sync only a subfolder not the whole folder with thing inside
here are the steps.
assuming you downloaded and installed drive.
go to you sub-folder you wish to sync to your computer.
click once on folder, so it turns blue.
press keys Shift then Z
a menu will pop up
don't choose a place to put since it only syncs main folders (put it in the drive not a folder)
on your COMPUTER right click on drive.
go to google drive with icon in front of it.
choose a the sub-folder you PUT in the DRIVE
reminder when you press Shift and Z it copies the folder, so any changes you do to shortcut folder that's in your DRIVE is updated to the drive on computer and inside sub-folder.
I have a Google Drive account with a folder that has been shared with an edit permission link. While logged into another Google Drive account, I would like to upload some files, using drag and drop to a Chrome Browser window opened with the shared link. Can this be done using a browser? Can this be done with an app using google-drive-sdk?
Yes, this can be done. If you paste the link into the browser it should take you to the folder. In the corner of the screen there should be an add to drive button. Click it and it will add the shared folder to your drive. If you drag and drop files into that folder then it will add the files for the folder for everyone to see.
I have a document (FILE-1) with two parent folders (FOLDER-1 and FOLDER-2).
If I delete FOLDER-1, FILE-1 is also deleted. However, I expected that only FOLDER-1 would be deleted, and removed as a parent of FILE-1, which would be left intact.
Is this the intended behavior, or a bug?
It appears to be by design according to this Google Drive support documentation. It seems as though trashing a folder and removing a parent from a file are two completely different things.
3. The folder will be moved to Trash, and all items in that folder will also be moved to Trash.
I also found same thing but I think they want this only..that when a folder is moved to trash all the items in that folder will also be moved to trash.
They might have done something like if you are willing to delete a folder they would have asked for the confirmation messaging whether user wants to delete files inside it or not and if not they would have asked user to move it to another folder but again its there choice and there way of thinking.
In the Google Docs format, I could save one file to two (or more) folders by checking multiple boxes. Now that I've switched to Google Drive, I find that the files that were already in more than one folder stay that way, but I am unable to save a new file to two (or more) files/collections. Am I not doing something correctly or is this an intentional change?
Drag the file to the desired folder and press the Ctrl key before dropping it.
The action changes from Move to Add (mover/Añadir in Spanish).
You get a linked file with joined share permission