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Alexander Kolodziej

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Oct 31, 2016, 11:34:39 AM10/31/16
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Hello!

Is there some way to figure out the owner of a file or folder by using the fileId of folderId?

  wbr / Alex

Ross Scroggs

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Alexander,

gam user <User> show fileinfo <FileID>


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Alexander Kolodziej

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Oct 31, 2016, 12:59:58 PM10/31/16
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Hello Ross!

First, thanks for the "change ownership recursively" addition in GAMADV-X! :)

Two issues with your suggestion though:
1. it seems i already have to know the owner to be able to find out the owner? :)
2. does not work for folders (?)

  wbr / Alex


Den måndag 31 oktober 2016 kl. 17:22:54 UTC+1 skrev Ross Scroggs:
Alexander,

gam user <User> show fileinfo <FileID>


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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Kolodziej <alexander...@tactel.se> wrote:
Hello!

Is there some way to figure out the owner of a file or folder by using the fileId of folderId?

  wbr / Alex

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Graham Ingleby

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:01:10 PM10/31/16
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If you do this for a user who has access to the file then you can get the owner - do you have someone with access in order to get the fileid?


 

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On 31 October 2016 at 16:59, Alexander Kolodziej <alexander...@tactel.se> wrote:
Hello Ross!

First, thanks for the "change ownership recursively" addition in GAMADV-X! :)

Two issues with your suggestion though:
1. it seems i already have to know the owner to be able to find out the owner? :)
2. does not work for folders (?)

  wbr / Alex


Den måndag 31 oktober 2016 kl. 17:22:54 UTC+1 skrev Ross Scroggs:
Alexander,

gam user <User> show fileinfo <FileID>


Ross

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Kolodziej <alexander...@tactel.se> wrote:
Hello!

Is there some way to figure out the owner of a file or folder by using the fileId of folderId?

  wbr / Alex

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Alexander Kolodziej

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:05:34 PM10/31/16
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Ah, no.
The gam instance will use a master (nonpersonal) user that likely does not have the file/folder shared with him/her/it.
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Ross Scroggs

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:19:51 PM10/31/16
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Alexander,

$ gam user testuser1 show fileinfo drivefilename 'Classroom' id title owners mimetype

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query ('me' in owners and title = 'Classroom') for test...@rdschool.org (1/1)

Got 0 Drive Files/Folders for test...@rdschool.org...

User: test...@rdschool.org, Show 0 Drive Files/Folders (1/1)


$ gam user testuser1 show fileinfo anydrivefilename 'Classroom' id title owners mimetype

Getting all Drive Files/Folders that match query (title = 'Classroom') for test...@rdschool.org (1/1)

Got 1 Drive File/Folder for test...@rdschool.org...

User: test...@rdschool.org, Show 1 Drive File/Folder (1/1)

  Drive Folder: Classroom (<FileID>) (1/1)

    id: <FileID>

    mimeType: application/vnd.google-apps.folder

    owners:

      displayName: Tést User2

        emailAddress: test...@rdschool.org

        isAuthenticatedUser: False

        permissionId: 17868704419089105705

        picture:

          url: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KpzR40P-E88/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/Z4xhYgEQCHM/s64/photo.jpg

    title: Classroom

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The anydrivefilename argument drops the 'me' in owners part of the query but testuser1 must still have some access to the file to be able to see it.


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Alexander Kolodziej

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:44:47 PM10/31/16
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Ah, so i will need to have some access anyway.

The thing is that i am trying to automatize that users should be able to transfer ownership of (a subset of) their files to a "master" user (using "claim ownership").
They will be able to do this through a portal of sorts, where they are authenticated via LDAP (and then i will know their email, and hence their G Suite Account. A webpage that is.

But of course i dont want people to be able to transfer ownership of files that they do not own.

So my question is actually mostly about folders, not files (since "claim ownership" takes a folderId as argument).

I guess that i could run a check similar to that above, and if i get no output, or just an error, than i know for sure that the user is not the owner.

But i still need to be able to do this check for folders, not just files.

Any suggestions? :)

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Ross Scroggs

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Alexander,

drivefilename does not imply files only, the name can be that of a folder as in the example.

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Alexander Kolodziej

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Oct 31, 2016, 2:15:45 PM10/31/16
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Aah, i did not look close enough there, thanks!
This will work fine for me, thanks again for developing this script! :)
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