Find what other people shared with you
Shared lists the items other people granted you directly or through a collaboration. Account-wide shares and Space files are not part of that list.
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Choose Shared in the left rail. It lists the content other people shared with you, whether they named you directly or granted a collaboration you belong to.
What appears in Shared
- Items shared with you as a person.
- Items shared with a collaboration you belong to.
- Managed folders another person shared with you, which also appear as rows under Shared inside the Managed folders section of the rail.
The Share type column on each row says how the access reached you.
What does not appear in Shared
- Items shared with the whole Account. An Account-wide share behaves as an audience for a link rather than a listed grant, so it does not add a row here.
- Files posted in a Space. Drive hides the folder behind a Space channel today, so a file sent into a channel is reachable from the channel's Files tab rather than from Shared. The rail keeps a From Spaces group, but it lists Account-scoped folders you neither own nor received directly, not channel folders.
- Anything shared with you and then archived by its owner.
If it did not work
- Ask the person who shared it which recipient they chose. A share aimed at a workgroup or a Space reaches you by a different path.
- If they sent you a link instead, open the link; a restricted link still requires that you are in the item's access list.
- If the link reports You do not have access to view this content, the grant did not save. Ask the owner to add you again, per Invite people to a managed folder.
- For a file someone posted in a Space, open that channel's Files tab.
Related pages
- Find your way around Drive — Drive holds your files in one place. Home lists recent items and what needs your action; the left rail reaches every area and your managed folders.
- Can view, Can comment and Can edit — What the three permissions in the share dialog mean, which two you can actually choose, and how a permission on a managed folder reaches its contents.
- Cannot share — What each failure in the share dialog means: a disabled Done button, a failed save, a recipient who cannot be found, and a link that opens for nobody.