Add User to My Drive
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Martin Williams
Jul 30, 2025, 3:00:19 PMJul 30
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I need to add some user to someone elses My Drive. How can I do this?
Ross Scroggs
Jul 30, 2025, 3:03:00 PMJul 30
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You can't share an entire My Drive. What's the use case?
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I need to add some user to someone elses My Drive. How can I do this?
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Martin Williams
Jul 30, 2025, 3:07:42 PMJul 30
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We have a user out on extended leave and their managers need access to project files and folders. The names of the folders and files is not known.
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Maj. Marshall Giguere
Jul 30, 2025, 5:47:41 PMJul 30
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Martin;
You could begin with a survey of the users drive folders:
> gam redirect csv ./theUsersFolders.csv user us...@example.com print filelist showmimetype folder fullpath fields id,name,mimetype
Once you have that you can decide which folders to share with the new user. Alternately, my recommendation is that this type of information really should be kept on shared drives. You could then copy the files to a shared drive and simply grant permissions as needed to either the entire drive or individual folders.
Martin Williams
Jul 30, 2025, 6:16:28 PMJul 30
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I will look at the folder listing.
As for Shared Drives, I agree, and it's our recommendation. However, you can lead a horse to water .....
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Maj. Marshall Giguere
Jul 30, 2025, 6:44:07 PMJul 30
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You can scan the csv and delete the irrelevant folders, then process that to add the new user to each folder. You only need to grant access to the top level folder, the permission will be inherited down the tree.
gam csv ./theUsersFolders.csv gam user the...@example.com add drivefileacls id:"~~id~~" user new...@example.com role writer
> As for Shared Drives, I agree, and it's our recommendation. However, you can lead a horse to water .....
I have on many occasions forced the issue when it becomes an organizational problem.
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Martin Williams
Jul 30, 2025, 6:45:32 PMJul 30
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Thx
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Maj. Marshall Giguere
Jul 31, 2025, 1:04:32 PMJul 31
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Oops! Fat finger error
showmimetype gfolder
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I am getting the following error:
Invalid choice (folder): Expected <(application|audio|font|image|message|model|multipart|text|video)/mediatype|g3pshortcut|gdirectory|gdoc|gdocument|gdrawing|gfile|gfolder|gform|gfusion|gfusiontable|gjam|gmap|gpresentation|gscript|gsheet|gshortcut|gsite|gspreadsheet|shortcut>
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Martin Williams
Jul 31, 2025, 1:06:02 PMJul 31
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I figured it out and got what I needed. Thanks again.
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Jul 31, 2025, 1:08:02 PMJul 31
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