Drive: Managing the Access of a FileΒΆ

Manage Access allows you to change which users have access to your files and the degree of access these users have.
You are the owner of the files unless you have transferred their ownership another user.
The other access privileges are viewing files and editing files (which includes viewing).
Note that Drive is a hierarchical organization of files and the change to access of one file or folder will be applied to all files and folders below it.
To manage the access of a file, you must have navigated to the desired file. Refer to Managing a File or Folder if you are having trouble reaching this point.

  1. Click Manage Access in the info tab

    • Alternatively, click to access this option

  2. Select Everyone, a group, or a user

  3. Click Can View (default access) to change the user(s) access privilege to Can Edit

  4. Click to disable the access the user(s) have to the file

  5. Click Save