Moving a Drive File or Folder

Sharing a Drive File or Folder

The files and folder that are stored in Google Drive can be shared with others. You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone in your organization, however some administrators restrict sharing with recipients outside your organization. Beloit College allows file and folder sharing with other organizations.

To share files and folders follow the instructions given below.

Right click on the file or folder you want to share. A context menu will open.
Click Share on the context menu.
Share with others option will appear.
Under People, enter the email address(es) you want to share the files or folders with. To add more than one recipient click on Add more people.
Click send.

Context Menu

Share with others

Publishing a file

Get a Sharable Link to a Drive File or Folder

Deleting Drive Files or Folders

To delete a file or folder you can move in into your trash and it can be recovered in the future if need be. Your file will stay there until you empty your trash and delete it forever. To delete a file follow the given instructions.

Delete a single file:

Home the home page, right click on the file or folder you wish to delete. A context menu will appear.
Click Remove on the context menu.

Delete multiple files: following are two ways to delete multiple files.

To delete files that are in consecutive order click on a file you wish to delete and hold down the Shift key while you select another file. The files between those two files will also be selected.

a. After selecting the desired files click the trash icon on the top right of the window.

2. Drag the mouse pointer around the files to create a selection.

a. Click the trash icon on the top right of the window.

Delete files or folders

Recovering Drive Files and Folders