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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just shows how little talent there really is at Google. Everyone who can code are now on the doodle team.

Keeping an operation like Google going forward at that scale going is not a job for talentless hacks,

If the initial systems were written well, it could be self sustaining enough that it could run with an incompetent staff for quite a while.

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

#72

My adventures last week: Question: We have a G Suite Enterprise account. We used to share documents with a contractor. They no longer contract with us. How do we remove that contractor from every shared document. Answer 1: Run this report to get a list of every document shared with them. Manually visit each document and un-share it. Answer 2: Our API docs are at... FFS, Google. I really don't think this is that unusu…

Solution we found back in the days. Create a new user, and give user name and password to the contractor. This might force to disable 2fa.

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

#73

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…

> But, like Gmail, what Drive should have is the ability to block specific sharers.

It should have the ability to only accept document shares from people in your google contacts / in your organization.

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

#74
post #30

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

Just shows how little talent there really is at Google. Everyone who can code are now on the doodle team.

I know people are down voting you, but I just want to say that I found this comment funny.

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

#75

Related to this bug, some time ago I started getting spam on my Google Calendar. Not sure if Google ever fixed it, but basically Google would automatically add events to your calendar when you got an invite in your email. Honestly, it's a nice feature; saves a couple clicks every time I get an invite. The bug is that it applied even if the email was spam. There was no workaround, other than disabling the feature comp…

I still get this. It was bad enough on my "sign up for shit" email address that I had to disconnect that account from my smartphone because it kept spamming me with notifications in my calendar to "earn $1500 a week working at home!"

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

#76

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)

I just tried this. Let's see what happens.

Please share the email address (use a throwaway account) so that everyone can do it as well. Otherwise it's pointless.

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

#77
post #26

I’ve been pondering migrating away from Dropbox. I guess I won’t migrate to Google Drive then.

Where are you migrating to?

Dropbox's new client is absolutely terrible - an in-your-face resource hog trying to upsell constantly. But from a reliability perspective, Dropbox is absolutely great as long as you don't let it trick you into enabling their automatic offloading "feature" (hello corrupt all-NUL files!).

But of the main choices, the quality/reliability ordering really is: dropbox, icloud drive, one drive, anything else and then google drive. So I'd like a good alternative to DB that is at least as good as icloud drive (which is not a high bar).

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

#79
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just shows how little talent there really is at Google. Everyone who can code are now on the doodle team.

Keeping an operation like Google going forward at that scale going is not a job for talentless hacks,

How about humorless hacks? ;-) I used to work at google too, it was fun. I heard they don't do the memegen TGIF (or Thursday) variants anymore.

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

#80

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

This reminds me of the obnoxious know-it-all that lives under the bridge on the QNAP forums.
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