Depending on your organization’s security settings, you may or may not be able to share items with people outside your Workspace. You can choose to share files and folders in My Drive with individuals, multiple people, or everyone in your organization. Any time you add or create a new file or folder, or have ownership of an existing one transferred to you, it’ll be added to My Drive. Who owns these files?īy definition, you do. Here, you’ll find files and folders that you create, upload, or otherwise have ownership of. My Drive is your personal file storage center in a Google Workspace organization. Here, we’ll walk through three of the tabs in your Drive sidebar – My Drive, Shared With Me, and Shared Drives – and explain how each of them work. If you use Google Drive for file management, you probably have a broad idea of the differences between the various storage options it makes available to you, but you might have some questions when it comes to the nitty-gritty details: Who controls a shared drive? Why can’t I download some of my shared files? How can I add Shared With Me items to My Drive?

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