Shared Drive Permission to Print

[Don Beck]

I have a shared drive that contines hundreds of files.  The root folder has the permission for viewers to print turned on but I have discovered that some individual files in this folder have that permission turned off at the file level.  I'm looking for a command that can go thru the root folder and all it's subfolders and turn on the printing feature for all files at the file level.

[James SEYMOUR]

Hi Don,

I tried using gam user <Manager Email Address> update teamdrive <Shared Drive ID> copyrequireswriterpermission false but that seems to just set the top level setting. Please note that for the option copyrequireswriterpermission false, false = ticked. So I think this setting needs to be set on each file, unless there is a way to set this recursively.

gam user <Manager Email Address> print filelist select teamdriveid <Shared Drive ID> fields id,name,copyrequireswriterpermission todrive will create a Google Sheet of the files in Shared Drive. I have added the name & copyrequireswriterpermission fields so that you can review the Google Sheet if needed.

gam csv gsheet <Your Email Address> <Google Sheet ID created from Above Command> <Sheet (Tab) Name> gam user <Manager Email Address> update drivefile ~id copyrequireswriterpermission false will then change all the files in the Google Sheet created above.

If you are happy with these 2 commands then you can combine together as gam user <Manager Email Address> print filelist select teamdriveid <Shared Drive ID> fields id,name,copyrequireswriterpermission | gam  csv - gam user <Manager Email Address> update drivefile ~id copyrequireswriterpermission false. 

This should work and do what you want, but please make sure you are happy with it before running.

Cheers

James