{"id":591,"date":"2021-11-23T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/?p=591"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:53:54","password":"","slug":"find-publicly-shared-google-drive-files","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/find-publicly-shared-google-drive-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Publicly shared Google drive files"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Find publicly shared Google Drive files<\/h2>\r\n

You may find that users from your domain have shared Google files publicly (visible on the internet). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Proactively removing public shares<\/h2>\r\n

Navigate to the GAT+ > Drive > Files tab > Audit table\u00a0 \u2192 <\/strong>Select\u00a0Full Public (everyone) or Public with link (everyone with link)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\"In<\/p>\r\n

This will apply a filter “Sharing Flag” contains “Public” or “Public with link”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Add an extra filter, Sharing Flag doesn’t contain Shared In\u00a0<\/strong>– to exclude all files that are Shared Into your domain<\/p>\r\n

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Result<\/h3>\r\n

This will give us the result on All Files Shared with Public<\/strong> (everyone) permission<\/strong> and not “Shared In”<\/strong> into your domain from an external domain.<\/p>\r\n

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Note: Excluding Shared In files, ignores files that appear in your domain\u2019s drive stream because a local user on your domain has accessed them at some stage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

On the Everyone (Public) permission<\/strong> click on the “arrow”<\/strong> and select any of the options to Remove the Share<\/p>\r\n

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Drop-down menu options:<\/h4>\r\n
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  • “Remove this permission”<\/strong> -It will remove the “everyone” permission from just a single file you have selected.<\/li>\r\n
  • “Remove everyone as Reader from files in current filter”<\/strong> – It will remove the everyone permission where it appears as a Reader privilege in the filter you have applied.<\/li>\r\n
  • “Remove everyone as Editor from files in current filter”<\/strong> – It will remove the everyone permission where it appears as an Editor privilege in the filter you have applied.<\/li>\r\n
  • “Remove everyone as Editor and Reader from files in current filter”<\/strong> – It will remove the ‘everyone’ permission for both editors or readers where ever it appears in the filter you applied.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n

    When the Files Shared with Public permission are found, you can also Generate a report on those files and notify the owners of those files.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Proactively removing public shares Navigate to the GAT+ > Drive > Files tab > Audit table\u00a0 \u2192 Select\u00a0Full Public (everyone) or Public with link (everyone with link) This will apply a filter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[21],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[24],"class_list":["post-591","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-drive-management","doc_tag-gat"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":292,"total_views":"7846","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"1"},"author_info":{"name":"stan","author_nicename":"stan","author_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/author\/stan\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Drive Audit & Management","term_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips-category\/drive-management\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[{"term_name":"GAT+","term_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips-tag\/gat\/"}],"yoast_head":"\nFind Publicly shared Google drive files - 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