You have two days to add your division's numbers into the sheet that you downloaded. Please don't touch anything from your computer or phone. Wait, Joe, did you move the file out? Now everyone lost access. Yes, the file is there in Chrome (eye roll). No, it doesn't sync to your computer, it's a folder but not a folder.
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Now imagine having to explain all of this to your family or friends or team members (in the latter case, if you're not using Share Drives and File Stream): "Well, Joe, no, you can't see the monthly Excel report on your PC because it's inside the folder shortcut. It's so confusing that at first we thought this whole situation was a bug, but we reached out to Google which confirmed to us that this is expected behavior. and I think I didn't uncover all the issues yet. Essentially, we went from "this is a folder, I shared it, done," to a confusing mess and shortcut system that took me hours to untangle. You can also move files outside of a shared folder, but like on the web, this removes access from everyone else.ġ800 words and dozens of inconsistencies and surprises later, it's abundantly clear that this shortcut change isn't benign. You can move or upload files to a shared folder shortcut, which doesn't matter on mobile but will affect your access if you sync to your computer. I'd have to go and double check things every now and then to make sure I'm not missing anything. The issue with this workaround, beside how tedious it is to basically recreate the initial shared folder structure on your end with individual file shortcuts, is that any files that get added later by anyone (owner, me, or other people) won't sync, and any folder structure change won't sync. Edit: Google even recommends this as an "alternative" in its documentation. That way I'm dealing with shortcuts to files and not folders, which are more lenient as I explained earlier with the "Shared Excel.xlsx" story. The only way I found to circumvent this shared folder limitation on my PC was to open the folder in Google Drive web and create individual shortcuts for every file inside my Drive. What's inside shows up on your computer, regardless if you're the owner or recipient. Dropbox, One Drive, and others simply treat folders as folders. No other cloud storage service and sync app does things this way, as far as I know. In fewer words, local access for folders is utterly nerfed. Edit: See the "Interesting side effects" section above for more info. On the web, it's clear that they're still the owner, but locally, that doesn't matters very little because the file now belongs to another structure. It's only accessible from that dang folder shortcut. But when the changes sync locally to their computer, that file, which was on their machine, is gone, poof, deleted. also has to go to the Drive website to move a Drive file that they own into that shared folder.has to go to the Drive website to move a local file from their computer into the shared folder - they can't do it from their file browser, which was possible before.
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