But, how can we encourage users sharing docs with Groups rather than individuals, given when user click ‘share’ button, a list of individual will be shown immediately, users have to memorize groups each individual belongs to and type the group name then. But here’s a few things you can do to insure that your content is not accidentally seen a) Zip all your sensitive documents into a zip file, add a password to the zip and the. So my goal is to lock the members who can access files in a shared drive (I.e., People who aren’t shard drive members cannot be added to file), and then have grant differential folder access for groups.Īnother thinking is, I agree we should using groups to folder sharing, and individual access can be managed by groups. Answer (1 of 7): Google Drive is for all practical purposes secure, all your document are encrypted on their server side.

In this case, ‘People who aren’t shard drive members can be added to files’, in real case, all editors of files can re-share and the owner of a shared drive lost full visibility of people accessing files within the shared drive. I tried that in multiple occasions, remove the restricted access group from full Shared Drive Access and add them to folders within only.

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