They will receive an email with their invite and a message if you have opted to write one. From here, you can decide what level of permissions you want to offer them in your folder and add a message when inviting them to the folder. You can hover over an email to see if they have a Google email. Right-click on a file or folder and you will be able to delineate between guests and members of the Google Drive. For the overarching controls of a shared drive, you do need a Google account but for subfolders, it is not necessary to have one. Pin code sharing does not work on a shared drive but it does work on a folder within a shared drive. Damson Cloud’s Fintan Murphy discusses how pin code sharing aids collaboration between businesses. Pin code sharing allows you to securely share files or folders with someone who doesn’t have a Google account – all they need is an email address.
This is valuable as many businesses and emails are tied with other providers.
Have you ever wanted to share a Google folder or file with someone who doesn’t have a Google account? Google recently launched pin code sharing which allows you to do just that.
