At the bottom left, click Integration menu Drive.Select the Chat space you want to share the folder with.To share a folder with a Chat space in Google Chat: In Google Drive, to share folders with a Chat space, you can add the folder you want to share directly to that Chat space or share a link to the Google Drive folder. Tip: Before a folder appears in your “Shared with me” folder, you must open that folder from an invitation or a link. To share a folder with your Google Group: Remove a member from a group: That person loses permission to access the files and folders the group has.Add a member to a group: That person gains permission to access the files and folders the group has.

In Google Drive, you can share folders with Google Groups instead of specific people. You can also remove parent permissions from a child folder. You can override inherited permissions of child folders to be different than the parent folder.

When you manage large folder structures, child and parent folder permissions can be different.

Storage is counted against the person who uploaded the file, not the owner of the folder.

Tip: In the meantime, to provide folder access for new collaborators, use the Sharing URL of a file nested deeply inside the folder. If you change a lot of edit or view permissions at once, it might take time before you see the changes.

If you share or unshare folders with a lot of files or subfolders, it might take time before all permissions change.

Files added to a folder at a later date will inherit permissions from the folder in addition to any permissions directly added to the files.

When you share or change permission on a folder, the files and subfolders inside are updated with the new sharing settings.

Can view only: People can see the folder and they can open all files within the folder.

Can organize, add, & edit: If they're signed into a Google account, people can open, edit, delete, or move any files within the folder.

Here’s what people can do with folders after you share it with them:

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