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Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by bgorman »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #5

> Keep getting spam shared on an account I don't use much, but keep getting notifications. Not fun when my 9 yo son is on my phone and a notification pops up that someone shared "eat my pussy baby". Google needs to address this. Oh. That's bad.

I have been getting documents with titles that seem like pornography shared with me recently as well. It is truly infuriating because I can't tell where they are coming from. It seems like this started around ~6 months ago. I think there is a report as spam option, but it doesn't seem to have stopped the onslaught.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by ausjke »

it's also pretty a bad user experience when you do have a shared link and you want to make a copy(in case the source is deleted), you can't copy the directory, you have to create a new directory and copy those files instead, if your shared link has quite a few sub-folders, you need spend quite a while to do that manual copy.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by 1-6 »

mcny wrote: post #28
SanchoPanda wrote: post #11

The mods on the support forums who make it sound like basic functionality missing from their product is your own fault for not submitting some kind of ticket deserve the gaslighting prize of the year for each of the last 5 years. They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/3970069?hl=en

> They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. iirc unlike Dropbox, files shared with you do not count against your quota on Google Drive as long as you don't add it to your drive.

That sounds like a great way to extend storage beyond the limit!

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by kstrauser »

dawnerd wrote: post #41

little side question, whats with these support forums that almost never have real employees answering but have community 'support specialists' that never answer the question and only tell you to use the feedback forms but beg for props on their answers. I don't get it.

Don't be afraid to use that feedback form. You're not required to say nice things on it.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by jimmytidey »

xtracto wrote: post #44
SanchoPanda wrote: post #11

The mods on the support forums who make it sound like basic functionality missing from their product is your own fault for not submitting some kind of ticket deserve the gaslighting prize of the year for each of the last 5 years. They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/3970069?hl=en

Google support forums are terrible. Every time there is a missing feature (I usually find it in Google Spreadsheet) or a bug, the corresponding entry in the support forum would be answered with some pretext of why said feature will never be supported.

Isn't being strict about what features you add the core of good product management? (Doesn't apply to bugs I guess.)

Explaining it to users is a nice bonus.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by figgyc »

crazygringo wrote: post #52

I'm not sure it makes sense to disable this -- I can only imagine people forgetting they disabled it, then not understanding why they're not getting a family member's folder of photos. And you can already remove something shared with you by going in Drive to "Shared With Me" and clicking "Remove" in the context menu for the file/folder. Otherwise, sharing something with a Google account is no different from sending a…

I mean usually people tend to send a message or email alongside sharing files with people so I doubt it would be much of a loss.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by WatchDog »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #3

Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them. (/s: not condoning doxxing here)

More likely for your google account to get suspended than for them to make a product change.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by ibdf »

I used to have everything google but have slowly moved away from their products because of this exact issue, because of a similar issue with the calendar invites, and because they just abandon their products. What's the point of releasing a brand new product and then releasing no updates? As a developer I love to try new software, but as a regular consumer I just need things to be reliable.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by techntoke »

1-6 wrote: post #64
mcny wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. iirc unlike Dropbox, files shared with you do not count against your quota on Google Drive as long as you don't add it to your drive.

That sounds like a great way to extend storage beyond the limit!

How so? someone has to share the files first and there is a quota on the amount of times a shared file can be accessed.
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