Is possible to delete only file content in Google Drive? i.e I wanted to delete content stream of a particulate file, not the file.
If possible, can some one explain the process?
Thanks in advance.
You can sync. the Google Drive using a local folder and edit it locally.
Syncing locally depends on your OS - download the application from https://www.google.com/drive/download/. After you'll have it locally and the folder is synced, you can update the file (in your case, open the file and delete its content) and it will be empty on the next sync.
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I am currently exploring Google Drive APIs and am able to upload an individual file using Postman successfully.
I tried to create/upload a folder using Google Drive API but failed. In fact, I don't see any specific API to deal with a folder. I was giving it a try with create files API.
Reference - https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference
Any help will be appreciated.
If you check the documentation for files.create you will notice at the top it states
Creates a file.
This is singular each request creates a single file. If you want to upload a directory you will need to first create the directory then upload each file one at a time.
You could try batching but I don't think you can batch the file upload itself you could probably batch the metadata creation performance#details
I'm running into an issue with my Power Automate Flow. I'm trying to push a CSV file from a SharePoint folder to a folder in Google Drive. Creating the CSV is fine, but when I try to push the CSV there seems to be a (unreasonable) limit on the size of the CSV I can push.
As the file already exists and I am simply PUSHING the file, not recreating it, surely it shouldn't hit any limits? This file is only 52MB!
The Flow I have - previous step is just a scheduler
error message I get
Look at this link and try with copy to google drive
https://sharepains.com/2019/05/31/copy-large-files-with-microsoft-flow/
I'm writing from Italy (sorry for mistakes), my question is about GOOGLE DRIVE API and
I'm writing here because the G-Suite support wrote me to contact you, I'm not a programmer.
The big question is: how can I browse folders and files uploaded on my Google Drive Api?
I write you what apppened.
I wanted to use a backup program to save in a planned way files and folders an Google Drive.
I downloaded the program (Iperius Backup) and followed the instructions.
To understand on what I did, I paste the link of the instructions below:
http://www.iperiusbackup.net/en/backup-to-google-drive/
http://www.iperiusbackup.net/en/how-to-enable-google-drive-api-and-get-client-credentials/
I tried the software and everything worked.
So I opened Google Drive but the back-upped files weren't there.
Seen that there was something not clear, I have erased all the files on my Google Drive. I wanted to make sure that it was empty, hoping to erase also “hidden files”(...even if I thought it wouldn't have been so simple...)
To make sure that everything was erased (also “hidden files”), I tried to restore files from the backup software but unfortunately, the software worked well...the files were still there, somewhere...
This means that I have saved through the backup software files and folders on Google Drive “Api”, but I cannot manage them.
How can I have access to my space in Google Drive Api and erase all my files and folders that are still there?
Thank you in advance for the help,
best regards,
Stefano
To list all files in your drive, you can use Files: list.
This method accepts the q parameter, which is a search query
combining one or more search terms. For more information, see the
Search for Files and Team Drives guide.
You can use the Try it now or use the sample code given in a specific language you are using.
To delete/erase a file, use Files: delete.
Permanently deletes a file by ID. Skips the trash. The currently
authenticated user must own the file or be an organizer on the parent
for Team Drive files. Try it now or see an example.
I am trying to prevent deletion of all files uploaded to specific folder in Google drive. The idea is several people will be able to upload files to this drive, but they should never be able to delete it.
I thought of putting a Google apps script to achieve this, like letting the script run every x interval and getTrashedFiles and set isTrashed to false. But what if the user is able to delete it from trash too?
Is there a foolproof way?
Or is Google Drive not the right answer at all?
Any other service can help me which is simple for people uploading the files?
TIA
its possible but the way you are doing it isnt practical or tamperproof.
instead write a little apps script webapp that allows uploading files to the given folder where you are owner and only writter.
publish it to run as you with permissions to anyone (or your domain). they will be able to add files and view but not change or remove them (and you will be the owner of all uploaded files).
to support uploading files already in drive (move them to the folder) is also possible but with more code.
I would like to use Google Drive to push files in various folders onto a remote computer. I would like this to be a one-way transaction so the people using the computer cannot write to Google Drive.
However, when I use the following C# code to get the files from Google Docs I only get the file names, not their directories where they will be on the remote computer. This won't work because some files in different directories have the same name. Is there a way to programmatically get directory information from these files?
Alternately, if I could set up the Google Drive folder to be read-only, that would accomplish my goal and probably be easier. Can this be done?
You should use the Google Drive API to list all files and check the parents field of each of them to map those files into folders:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files#resource