I don't think people here get this is a fundamental internet spam problem not solved with a button.
Any solution to this, should work equally well with email and vice versa.
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?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is off topic but it reminds me, every time I look for some Windows 10 problem, it mostly leads to some Microsoft forum (answers.microsoft.com). In there however, the questions systematically get answered by a billion "MSFT specialist consultants #not working for MSFT", and it always weirds me out. Are these people there for self promotion, for the thrill of it or is it MSFT that has some reward system for third…
It's the same on the Apple discussion boards. You won't ever get an official answer, only a guess of an answer from somebody with no more knowledge than yourself. HP is the same, but occasionally you will get an employee answer, but it will be just as useless. My assumption is all the big tech companies don't want to give support away for free when you should be paying for a support contract for it. And yes, there is…
And the guess of an answer they give is always the same:
1. A word-for-word copy of generic support steps (e.g. try restarting, try clearing your cache, log out of iCloud and back in again, etc)
2. Have you reset your PRAM?
3. Wow you have? Then you'll need to reset your NVRAM.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#123The 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
What do you mean by that? I'm curious because I switched to Google Drive after Dropbox discontinued any real photo support a few years back. I like Dropbox more for file syncing, but put up with Google Drive's weaknesses because I get much better photo management.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
open a dummy account, upload and share it with your main account
Have you tried opening a dummy account lately on Google? You typically need a phone number to verify, and not some VOIP number but a major carrier. That is a lot of effort for 15GB of extra data, when you can just pay $12/mo for unlimited with G Suite.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keeping an operation like Google going forward at that scale going is not a job for talentless hacks,
I mean, no it isn’t. At the same time, an operation which works like this is certainly extremely flawed. I doubt there’s one engineer working on GDrive that doesn’t think a folder size feature wouldn’t be useful and relatively simple to implement. So that’s more of an argument towards the operation going bad, instead of the engineers. Maybe this slipped through the cracks but this thread already contains a bunch of e…
3 seconds to load the main page is a complaint? How far we've come and how little we actually travelled.
3 seconds to download 10 megs.
I remember when using a 300 baud modem each letter would slowly appear.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This is off topic but it reminds me, every time I look for some Windows 10 problem, it mostly leads to some Microsoft forum (answers.microsoft.com). In there however, the questions systematically get answered by a billion "MSFT specialist consultants #not working for MSFT", and it always weirds me out. Are these people there for self promotion, for the thrill of it or is it MSFT that has some reward system for third…
They also seem to just skim read questions for keywords and give you canned solutions for problems they already know how to fix. If your problem is either new or something that's not actually fixable the thread turns in to a back and forth of them clearly not actually comprehending that and you restating your issue in different ways in futility.
It's comical to read when it's someone else's problem.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are the people that answering questions on that support forum actually google employees? I got this impression that google employees never post on that forum and the people that answer are just unpaid forum members which somehow take it upon themselves to post answers.
I bet you're right. Reminds me a little of the scenario where people bizarrely ask a forum if they can bring their dog to a hotel, some random person says "yes" and then you wonder if the hotel declined to accept the dog if the owner would say "well Bob off the internet said it would be fine"
The difference is that the hotel didn't create, own or manage the forum.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#128Earlier 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
What do you mean by that? I'm curious because I switched to Google Drive after Dropbox discontinued any real photo support a few years back. I like Dropbox more for file syncing, but put up with Google Drive's weaknesses because I get much better photo management.
Google Photos is now a separate standalone product from Google Drive. You can upload images to either place but they are not synced.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#129Answer: 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-...
I thought this would be years old but this article was written late August 2019.
iCloud had a similar problem in 2016.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#130My 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…
It's recommended (and much easier) to share access to a folder instead of individual files. You can also use Google Groups instead of adding individual users. Google Team/Shared Drives has finally started to improve permissions and includes sharing with external emails as well.
Otherwise it's better to use something like Box.com which is actually designed for enterprise-level features including complex access controls and user management.