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

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Post by perennate »

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

When I read the recommended response in thread you linked, I just feel like they're acknowledging the feature doesn't exist and suggesting to use Send Feedback as a potential avenue to increase the chance that the feature gets implemented. It may be that important features are missing, but I don't think the forum mods can do anything about that and the reply didn't seem rude to me.

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

#82

Post by techntoke »

mey wrote: post #50
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

Even better, they make it pretty impossible to manage your online storage of photos since they split it out of drive.google.com

It isn't impossible, just not convenient like it used to be. What I do is sync a copy to my backup device, and use the web interface to download any collages or effects that it auto-generates.

You can then use rclone to sync deletions, which uses their API.

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

#83

Post by Simulacra »

perennate wrote: post #81
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

When I read the recommended response in thread you linked, I just feel like they're acknowledging the feature doesn't exist and suggesting to use Send Feedback as a potential avenue to increase the chance that the feature gets implemented. It may be that important features are missing, but I don't think the forum mods can do anything about that and the reply didn't seem rude to me.

This could be because Google may outsource everything, especially their customer service, and so you’re essentially communicating with a call center in another country that has no incentive to be nice.

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

#84

Post by thisbrt »

IMHO Google drive is one of the worst service of Its kind in the market. Copying, moving duplicating files is as complex and blunt as it could be. Folder duplication doesn’t exist. I’m actually not surprised that sharing is still not fixed. Look at Meet. A service that only after being absolutely beaten by Zoom received some attention. They’re working on bringing Plus back in the form of Currents, but you still cannot stop people from sharing file with you in Google drive...

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

#85

Post by hmmdar »

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)

Did you ever see the time where spammers could share calendar invites with you that would automatically get applied to your calendar without you accepting it...

Google eventually added an option to change this behavior. Guess it will take a critical mass of complaints to get something similar for Google Drive.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-calendar-spam-is-on-the-...

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

#86

Post by Simulacra »

dakiol wrote: post #76
Simulacra wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, I’m sorry I cannot do that, for me that would be doxxing. I work for a government contractor and have access to a databases of executive contact information. I think if you spent a little time with a search engine you might be able to accomplish the same thing otherwise.

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

#87

Post by kstrauser »

cientifico wrote: post #72
kstrauser wrote: post #57

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.

That would work to a point, but has its own issues (and also means that you have to pay for a company account for every contractor).

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

#88

Post by exhilaration »

techntoke wrote: post #82
mey wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even better, they make it pretty impossible to manage your online storage of photos since they split it out of drive.google.com

It isn't impossible, just not convenient like it used to be. What I do is sync a copy to my backup device, and use the web interface to download any collages or effects that it auto-generates. You can then use rclone to sync deletions, which uses their API.

How do you sync a copy to your backup device? My understanding is that it's no longer to programmatically grab the original images, only compressed images are available via the API.

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

#89

Post by prepend »

perennate wrote: post #81
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

When I read the recommended response in thread you linked, I just feel like they're acknowledging the feature doesn't exist and suggesting to use Send Feedback as a potential avenue to increase the chance that the feature gets implemented. It may be that important features are missing, but I don't think the forum mods can do anything about that and the reply didn't seem rude to me.

That’s a failure on Google’s part. If feedback forum mods can’t also influence the roadmap, that’s a missed opportunity.

Even if it’s as simple as having 50 votes on the bug tracker, there should be some way for forum mods to synthesize and share feedback to the dev team for what to build.

I personally hate how there’s never a feedback loop on these posts noting how a change was made. Microsoft is pretty bad about this too.

“Please submit a suggestion” is a really unsatisfying experience to a user. Especially for really basic functions. Especially when not implementing makes the company money.

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

#90

Post by dmoose »

kwijibob wrote: post #59

I'm all in on GDrive - my whole world is in there. 25 years of files. I do notice Spam occasionally in the 'shared with me' menu - but it seems to get cleaned up. I already have all 99% notifications turned off in apps. Sounds like the real annoying part is getting the notification with the spammy sexual titles. If you didn't get notifications then likely the spam detection would delete before you ever noticed it in…

Given Google's track record this exhibits a level of faith I would find hard to muster. I really hope you still have the offline backups.
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