Depending on the size of your team, this can mean dozens of files a day.
After a while, you could end up with hundreds or thousands of files in your Google Drive.
In this article, you’ll learn how to manage your shared Google Drive files to prevent clutter.
We’ve coveredhow to use shared files on Google Drive.
Let’s now see the various ways to manage shared files in Google Drive.
By default, it is set to grid layout.
However, grid layout displays your files as large square cards.
Although grid layout offers a quick preview, it can quickly take up significant space on your screen.
Thus, only allowing you to view a handful of files per time.
This may require you to keep scrolling for a while to reach files that are further down.
This can help if you have a large archive of files to sort through.
you’re able to as wellcolor code your Google Drive foldersfor easier identification.
Then:
you might now start moving your shared files into this folder.
To access your moved files, simply choose My Drive, Computers, or Starred.
This is because files shared with you do not belong to you.
It’sone of the ways to clean up Google Drivein general.
Deleting a shared file does not delete it from the owner’s Google Drive.
Otherwise, only do this if you’re sure you won’t be needing the file again.
It may also show up in results when yousearch for files in Drive.
Better yet, buy storage from Google.
Google’s paid cloud-storage plans start from 100GB for basic all the way to 2TB for premium.
Here’s how:
Then, tap onManage access, followed by your account name andRemove.
This will remove you from the shared document.
Tidy Up Your “Shared With Me” Files Section
