Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus; Enterprise; Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus; Nonprofits; G Suite Business; Essentials. Compare your edition
The following limitations and known issues apply to the current release:
- You can't store some file types in shared drives, including (but not limited to):
- Google Photos
- Some virtual file types
- Files owned by other domains
- You can only add external users as a member of a shared drive if they have a Google Account associated with their email address. To resolve this, users can create a Google Account with their existing email.
- When using Google Drive for desktop, you cannot move a folder from My Drive to a shared drive.
- Drive for desktop and the Files app on chromeOS require at least Content manager access to edit files locally in shared drives.
- You can't upload files from Google Forms to a shared drive.
