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Drive API Auth Scope Changes - Handling Changing/Remvoing Scopes
I have an application that is somewhat old. The application uses Google Drive API, and offline access, to prov...
Sheets notifications for protected tabs
I have a Sheet with contents that are accessed by people outside our organization. But they only need access t...
Delete Gmail emails without license
Hello, we recently canceled Google Workspace.In the Google Admin interface, it says that we are overusing our ...
Google Drive File Download counter
Is there a counter to find out how many times a file has been downloaded from Google drive? We would like to u...
Can't restore my Call History from Google Drive Backup
In late Feb my Redmi Note 9T 5G (4GB 128GB) failed (stuck on boot screen or FastBoot if I pressed and held vol...
Google Docs now showing some user changes in version history
Hello,I have an issue in Google Docs: we are working in a doc version that has 150+ pages, being built for the...
Archiving Shared Drives for All Members
We're looking to organize our company's shared drives and archiving old drives. However, when you archive a Sh...
Workspace Drive - drive 5TB account but only showing 512GB
I recently opened a workspace account on the Google Workspace Business Plus. On the plan it states I will have...
For Business Starter accounts, how can they buy the extra storage?
Some users from my clients drive storage is filled up to 30GB (Google Workspace Business Starter). And they do...
Auditing label usage within Google Drive
As a Google Admin is there a way to monitor the application of labels to documents by your organisation's user...
Notify Admins of Delete Actions in a Shared Drive
Hello. Is there any existing Rule in Workspace wherein if a member of a shared drive mass delete files and fol...
Gmail Layouts not loading for users
ETA: Layouts worked for us BEAUTIFULLY until the first week of April 2024.We are a tiny non-profit and rely he...
Deleted workspace account lost files on other user shared folder
Dear community,We have the following situation. We had a "user A" account created in workspace. This user has ...
Permissions for nested folders in a Shared Drive
Just found out that a shared drive cannot have permissions applied to folders nested within it. This seems cra...
Open docs/sheets in relevant PWA?
Hi, we're a new Workspace customer that onboarded all our users a month ago, and we're getting some questions ...
Sharing only specific folders within a shared drive, but all users can still see the top level drive
This may not be possible, as I have yet to see another organization be able to do it.I'm working with a non-pr...
Can't move from My Drive to shared drive
I would like something to be done about not being able to move files from My Drive to a shared drive if there ...
Drive "External users" Filter Not Working Properly
I am experiencing issues using the "External users" option in the "People" dropdown filter at the top of the D...
Assistance Needed for Deploying Google Drive via Intune on Windows Devices
Hello Google Community,I'm reaching out for advice on deploying Google Drive as a silent install on Windows de...
Custom Vault Retention Rules Drive
We recently configured a custom Vault-Drive Retention policy to purge everything from a specific shared drive ...
Move folders from "Computers" to "My Drive"
Hey thereIs there any way to move folders uploaded to the "My Computer" part of Google Drive, to the "My Drive...
Drive on Mac is not showing all the content in a folder or shared drive
Looks like this is a known issue and Google is aware of this (or should be), but it is so annoying to either d...
Workspace accounts with Android Auto OS
Currently Workspace accounts don’t work with Android Auto. This means that workspace users can not connect to ...
Drive for Desktop RAM Consumption (and other issues) (Mac)
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this, but I'm at my wit's end with the Drive for Desktop app and am l...
Drive Sharing Setting: Distributing content outside of your organization
Goal: We have a partner (external) organization with a Shared Drive that would like certain users to add files...
Google Drive
I used to be an ordinary 15 GB Google user using up around 12 GB 15 GB. As soon as I upgraded to 100 GB my usa...
Offline access to Google Shared Drives
HelloHow do we enable offline access to Google Shared Drives? In particular1. G Suite files – G Docs, G Sheets...
Transferring ownership from inside an organization to an individual outside the organization.
My main work email has a unique @domain address instead of an @Google.com address and I am currently unable to...
update on google drive / windows explorer issue
We traced the issue to something happening between windows explorer and google drive for desktop. There are tw...
Issue with exceeding pooled storage
We (AIESEC, aiesec.org) are a youth-run not-for-profit organization with over 30,000 members across the globe,...