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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 unnouinceput »

malwarebytess wrote: post #75
fpgaminer wrote: post #25

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!"

Considering 40h/week that would be 1500/40 = $35/h. Kinda low for a freelancer to work from home. Tell spammers their game is outdated, they should at least double it :P

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

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Post by baddox »

dsr_ wrote: post #95
jimmytidey wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No. The core of good product management is making decisions that make your product so attractive to users that they get their friends and coworkers to use it, too. Sometimes that means minimalism. Sometimes it means that you have ease of use. Sometimes you realize that your users are actually not your customers, and you need to make the product attractive to the customers, not the users. That way lies madness and ent…

If a bunch of people are asking for a bunch of features it sounds like they have made their product attractive to users.

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

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

mehrdada wrote: post #48
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)

LOL, you're assuming anyone gets promoted by fixing issues at Google. Wrong. You build some new shit and switch teams. Someone pitches a new project and builds from scratch. Rinse and repeat. This particular issue happens (at least that's my recollection a few years ago) frequently enough at Google that there were memes about it internally. Not sure giving additional feedback would help.

This is so glaringly apparent as a user. I think Google makes some fantastic products, but the number of "This has to be so exceedingly easy to fix, but Google just doesn't give a damn" issues I've hit is crazy.

Here's one simple one: the number of volume steps in Android is only 16: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37035441 . This means that the difference between off and the lowest level volume can be pretty big if you're trying to be quiet, e.g. avoid waking someone in the same room. I almost wish they would just close issues with a "We don't give a shit" resolution status.

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

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Post by stickfigure »

distrill wrote: post #94
techntoke wrote: post #70

Earlier 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

...or spend $2/mo and get way more storage without the hassle. This fits into the same category as "you can get as much free catsup as you want from fast food restaurants" - not a really useful life hack.

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

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Post by mc32 »

baddox wrote: post #102
dsr_ wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. The core of good product management is making decisions that make your product so attractive to users that they get their friends and coworkers to use it, too. Sometimes that means minimalism. Sometimes it means that you have ease of use. Sometimes you realize that your users are actually not your customers, and you need to make the product attractive to the customers, not the users. That way lies madness and ent…

If a bunch of people are asking for a bunch of features it sounds like they have made their product attractive to users.

Not necessarily. There was a time there were few players in the SaaS office collaboration suites, so the default was google apps. Now that other alternatives exist people might be asking for some of the features offered by others.

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

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Post by XiS »

fortran77 wrote: post #12
pedrocx486 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god. I got COMPLETELY derailed by this last month. My girlfriend's son was using my tablet (which is logged on my main Google account) and recently I was being victim of this, and suddenly he asked me "what's a bussy?" I never logged my account out of an device so fast. Google needs to fix this crap.

Did you tell him? Lots of good music from De bussy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy

Oh, De bussy! I love de bussy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKO-ebWS4Ko (Family Guy - Peter finishes on the Bach not on the Debussy)

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

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Post by ghayes »

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.

Our solution is to clone docs which we plan to share externally. Then, at least, it's a doc that has already been shared out, instead of docs that you continue to update.

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

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Post by neurostimulant »

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.

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.

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

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Post by cbo100 »

BbzzbB wrote: post #100
xtracto wrote: post #44

Earlier 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…

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 for some unknown reason, a legion of people who will give this fake support for free for internet points.

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

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Post by cyclotron3k »

knolan wrote: post #80
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

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

I know exactly who you're referring to
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