About Google at IU My Drive

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Overview

Google at IU My Drive, available as part of Google at IU, provides a simple, secure way to share and store files online. The sharing settings allow the ability to securely collaborate on files and folders.

See Compare Google at IU accounts and personal (free) Google accounts.

Note:
Items in Google My Drive are automatically deleted once they have been in your trash for 30 days.

Private folders

When a new folder is created, it will be a private folder by default. Private folders have a plain folder icon.

Shared folders

The icon for a shared folder displays a person symbol. You can share folders with specific people, generate share links, and/or share folders with a Google Group. For content that should be restricted to a specific audience, UITS recommends sharing with specific people or with a Google Group rather than using a share link.

To share files and folders using Google My Drive, follow the steps at Share folders in Google Drive.

  • When sharing with specific people, use username@iu.edu to share with other Google at IU users.
  • When sharing with external users, you will receive a prompt indicating that you are sharing with an external user, and you'll need to confirm that you wish to continue.
Note:

On September 13, 2021, Google applied a security update to Google Drive to make file sharing more secure. The update changed the links for some shared files and folders. Links for affected shared files were given new URLs that include resource keys. Collaborators who have not yet accessed an affected file that you shared prior to the update will now need the file's new link URL (containing the resource key) to access the file. Access to affected shared files did not change for any collaborators who accessed those files (prior to the update) or for those with direct access.

Google My Drive has three permissions settings:

  • Can view
  • Can organize, add, & edit
  • Is owner

There are also some advanced sharing settings, accessible by right-clicking a file or folder, clicking Share, and then clicking Advanced.

  • Prevent editors from changing access and adding new people will make it so that only the owner can add, remove, and adjust permissions of collaborators. This is a good option to have selected from a security standpoint if a folder has many collaborators and contains data that should be restricted to a specific audience.
  • In the advanced settings, you can also change the permissions settings of collaborators on a folder, including making someone else an owner of the folder (this will remove you as an owner and change your permission to Can organize, add, & edit).

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Last modified on 2021-08-03 10:32:48.