Issues removing driveacls

Taylor Curtis

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Mar 9, 2021, 9:09:23 PM3/9/21

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person@Persons-Mac-Pro ~ » gam csv /Users/person/Downloads/test.csv gam user first...@domain.com delete drivefileacl '~doc_id' anyonewithlink

2021-03-10T01:56:17.272+00:00,0,Using 5 processes...

User: first...@domain.com, Delete 1 Drive File/Folder ACL

User: first...@domain.com, Drive File/Folder ID: {{redacted}}, Delete Failed: The user does not have sufficient permissions for this file.

User: first...@domain.com, Drive File/Folder ID: {{redacted}}-A, Permission ID: anyoneWithLink, Deleted

User: first...@domain.com, Drive File/Folder ID: {{redacted}}, Permission ID: anyoneWithLink, Deleted

User: first...@domain.com, Delete 1 Drive File/Folder ACL

User: first...@domain.com, Drive File/Folder ID: {{redacted}}, Permission ID: anyoneWithLink, Deleted

User: first...@domain.com, Drive File/Folder ID: {{redacted}}, Delete Failed: The user does not have sufficient permissions for this file.

Why would i get these errors on some files but not others? I am a super admin and setup as super so kinda confused at the moment. any insights are much appreciated.

Taylor Curtis

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Mar 9, 2021, 10:46:06 PM3/9/21

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also tried asadmin

Ross Scroggs

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Mar 9, 2021, 10:55:41 PM3/9/21

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Taylor,

Take any file ID that failed and do:

gam user first...@domain.com show drivefileacl <FileID>

What rights does first...@domain.com have to the file?

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Taylor Curtis

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Mar 10, 2021, 12:19:42 PM3/10/21

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Hey Ross,

Thank you that was the nudge i needed to figure this out, I was putting my user thinking this was the actor not realizing i need to put the owner and or someone with edit access. Im running this now gam redirect csv ./FileOwners.csv multiprocess redirect stderr ./FileOwners.err multiprocess csv /Users/person/Downloads/test.csv gam print ownership '~doc_id' to get the owners of all of the files and then rill re-run the remove anyonewithlink. Is this the best approach? Im using a specific doc id vs all because i want to only target docs that have not been viewed in a specific about of time.

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