Share the entire "My drive" directory with another user

[Arnaud Lienard]

Hi,

Could you please tell me what the command is to share the entire "My drive" directory with another user?

Example : 

- I would like User1 to share his entire "My drive" directory with User2. 

- User1 must remain the owner and User2 must have the "Writer" role.

I've only found a command to share a directory in "My drive" and not the entire directory as I'd like.

Thank you for your help

Arnaud

[Maj Marshall Giguere]

The driveFileEntity for a My Drive is mydrive or root

>gam user User1 add drivefileacl mydrive role writer user User2

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Users-Drive-Permissions#manage-file-permissionssharing

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Drive-File-Selection#definitions

This sounds like a use case for a shared drive.

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[Arnaud Lienard]

Hi Maj Marshall Giguere,

Thanks for your help

I tried the commands below :

- gam user User1 add drivefileacl mydrive user User2 role writer

- gam user User1 add drivefileacl root user User2 role writer

The commands run but return the error message "Add Failed: This file is never writable".

Any ideas? 

Regards
Arnaud

[Ross Scroggs]

A Shared Drive is the best approach but here are the commands to share the My Drive

# Get filelist for user a                                                                                                                                                                     

gam redirect csv ./filelist.csv user user@@domain.com print filelist fields id,name,mimetype

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query ('me' in owners) for us...@domain.com

Got 257 Drive Files/Folders that matched query ('me' in owners) for us...@domain.com...

# Add an ACL to every file/folder for user b                                                                                                                                                  

$ gam redirect stdout ./sharefilelist.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ./filelist.csv gam user "~Owner" add drivefileacl "~id" user us...@domain.com role writer

Ross

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[Maj Marshall Giguere]

I thought it was worth a try.  You may not be able to share an entire mydrive.

You couldt to move all the folders/files into a sub-folder and share that.  I suggest moving everything to a shared drive.

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[Arnaud Lienard]

Maj Marshall Giguere , Ros,

I'm going to follow your advice and use a shared drive.

Thank you both for your advice

Arnaud

Le lundi 17 juillet 2023 à 17:34:25 UTC+2, Maj Marshall Giguere a écrit :

I thought it was worth a try.  You may not be able to share an entire mydrive.

You couldt to move all the folders/files into a sub-folder and share that.  I suggest moving everything to a shared drive.

Maj Marshall E GiguereNH Wing Director of ITCivil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary