Empty the trash of a shared drive?

[Tyler Woods]

I've got a shared drive in my organization with so many files it is feasible to empty the trash via the web UI. Reading through the documentation I'm not seeing a way to empty the trash of a shared drive. Is this possible with GAM?

[Ross Scroggs]

Tyler,

Advanced GAM: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Users-Drive-Cleanup#empty-the-trash-on-a-shared-drive

Ross

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I've got a shared drive in my organization with so many files it is feasible to empty the trash via the web UI. Reading through the documentation I'm not seeing a way to empty the trash of a shared drive. Is this possible with GAM?

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[Tyler Woods]

Thank you Ross. Would you know where to find what and/or where I'd find the entities mentioned in the command? Not seeing anything the documentation to define these.

Can't seem to find anywhere that tells me what the following are and where to find them: <UserTypeEntity> <SharedDriveEntity>

[Ross Scroggs]

Tyler,

Scroll to the top of the page, look under Definitions.

Ross

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[James SEYMOUR]

Hi Tyler,

The <UserTypeEntity> is defined on this page https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Collections-of-Users. Some examples are;-

• user <Users Email Address>
• ou_and_children <Path/To/Top/OU>
• all users

The <SharedDriveEntity> is defined up the page (https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Users-Drive-Cleanup#empty-the-trash-on-a-shared-drive) Ross linked to.

<SharedDriveEntity> ::=
        <SharedDriveID>|(teamdriveid <SharedDriveID>)|(teamdriveid:<SharedDriveID>)|
        (teamdrive <SharedDriveName>)|(teamdrive:<SharedDriveName>)

So at a basic level you just need to specify the <SharedDriveID> in the command. But you could use the Shared Drive name if you want, by specifying teamdrive <SharedDriveName>

S​o the command you need to run would look something like this;-

gam ​user drive.o...@domain.com empty drivetrash ​0A​xxxxxxxxxPVA

Cheers

James