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New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Kim_Nilsson — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:21:10 GMT

Naaaaajs! 🙂

We've been waiting for this since Teamdrives was introduced, and now we're getting hints of it becoming reality.

It's a beta, with all that entails.

New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

tic_manolo — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:43:08 GMT

Ya la tengo activada y es una función muy útil para los Administradores.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Meghan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:35:51 GMT

I cannot wait for this to be available!

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

kaned — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:41:08 GMT

I signed up for the beta but never got it, just was seriously help clean up some of my folder structures.

I'm very excited for this!

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Meghan — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:31:45 GMT

Is this still a possibility? Does anyone know where it stands? Otherwise I need to create a lot of new Shared Drives.

Is there any news on this? https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/09/google-drive-beta-to-restrict-folder-access.html#:~:text=As%20a%20shared%20drive%20manager,about%20folders%20with%20limited%20access.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

kaned — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:57:38 GMT

I signed up for the beta but have not heard anything since.

Alo very excited about this feature!

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Olger — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:49:55 GMT

Just in case noone here has found it yet, I discovered Limited Access Folders last week. This is no longer in beta.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14254362?visit_id=638791444213564787-3760234980&p=drive_limitaccess&rd=1

"The feature rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains started on February 18, 2025"

It's a complete rethink of how we'll do Shared Drive permissions. I've been waiting for this ever since I started with Google Workspace.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:46:57 GMT

Yeah, and the change of logic isn't voluntary. This is now how folders in a Shared Drive work.

By the way, you can shorten the URL to the support article to not include the tracking information of your visit. This bit is enough.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14254362

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

alexgrutza — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:09:16 GMT

We have this ability now. It will reignite the discussion internally of migrating our on-prem file server to Drive now that there are some granular settings (by far not close to NTFS, but better than nothing)

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Olger — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:15:10 GMT

Not sure I'm following? You don't have to change a folder to a limited access folder, you can still opt to leave things as they were, unless there's some other related change I'm not aware of. To me this is a good change, not being able to restrict access mid folder structure was way too limiting.

Point taken regarding the URL. I just blindly copy/pasted.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Kim_Nilsson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:04:30 GMT

I mean, you can't choose to not allow people to use limited access. There's no admin control.

If they have the appropriate role, they can limit access.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Olger — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:04:36 GMT

I see what you mean. I guess in our situation thats not a concern as we (IT) manage the shared drives and only give ourselves (greedy, I know) manager access (which means we can set up limited access folders). Content Managers access is granted to 'normal' peeps where necessary.

The only thing I wish they had included with this is to restrict who can delete a (limited access) folder. And allow shortcuts to the root of a shared drive. We've set up our shared drives similar to how we used to have Windows shared folders, because that works well for people. And with that we'd really need to limit the option to delete the root folders in drives.

Maybe one day.

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Kim_Nilsson — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:22:56 GMT

Yes, shortcuts to (the root of) Shared Drives would have been nice. Keep pushing that as feedback in Drive. The team reads all feedback.

Yeah, restricting deletion of folders, while still allowing sharing, is a fine grained option that's still missing. Will only get it if we keep asking for it. That feedback button is key!

Re: New beta available that restricts access to folders in Google Drive

Olger — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:27:11 GMT

Done and done. 😄