Set up shared drives for your organization - Google Help
As an administrator, you can manage how users in your organization can create and use shared drives to collaborate in Google Drive. Files in shared drives are owned by your organization, rather than an individual. They persist even if the person who created the file leaves your organization, helping you avoid potential data loss.
Manage data policies for specific shared drives - Google Help
Click Manage shared drives. Find one or more shared drives you want to move. To sort by storage use, click the Storage Used column header. To filter the list, click Add a filter. You can filter by Shared drive name, Status, Date created, No members, and No managers.
Best practices and tips for shared drives - Google Help
Manage membership with groups. Groups can make shared drive membership easier to manage, because when someone is added to a group, they get membership to the shared drives the group is a member of. This approach has 2 main benefits: New group members get the same access to files and folders in shared drives as existing group members.
Turn Drive and Docs on or off for users - Google Help
This article is for administrators who manage Drive and Docs editors for an organization. For help managing your own files, go to the Learning Center. As an administrator, you can turn Google Drive on or off for people in your organization. This setting also controls access to Google Docs editors, such as Google Docs, Sites, and Apps Script.
Manage your storage in Drive, Gmail & Photos - Google Help
If you use Drive for work or school, content in shared drives' trash also counts toward your organization's storage. Important: New files you create in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings and Forms use up your Google storage space. Files that already exist don't count toward storage unless they're modified on or after June 1, 2021.
Use Google Drive for desktop - Google Drive Help
To easily manage and share content across all your devices and the cloud, use Google’s desktop sync client: Drive for desktop. Use Drive for desktop to find your Drive files and folders on your computer with Windows File Explorer or macOS Finder.
How file access works in shared drives - Google Help
If you don't have Manager access, create shortcuts in your My Drive to the shared folders or shared drives. This way you can easily access them in Drive for desktop. How link sharing in a shared drive works. Unless prohibited by the sharing settings for the shared drives, you can share files and folders by link instead of directly with users ...
Create a shared drive - Google Workspace Learning Center
In the left column, click Shared drives and double-click one of your shared drives. At the top, click Manage members. Add names, email addresses, or a Google Group. By default, new members will be Content managers. They can upload, edit, move, or delete all files. To change the role for a new member, select a role from the dropdown.
What are shared drives? - Google Workspace Learning Center
When someone leaves and an admin deletes their account, files they added or created in shared drives remain. Flexible sharing. Access to files and folders in shared drives is granted in two ways: 1) adding a user or group as a member of the shared drive, and 2) members sharing files and folders with non-members. Easy, consistent sharing for ...
Google Drive Help
Official Google Drive Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Google Drive and other answers to frequently asked questions.