Orphan files not orphan files as never been shared and are owned by person indicated

Hi Lee Palmer!

 

First, you indicated that you "have users"- does this mean that the accounts in question are business/professional/organizational account types (@domain-name.com types), or are you somehow referring to using personal Google Accounts (@gmail.com types) but in some sort of non-personal use?

 

Files can be orphaned if they have been placed in a folder, and then that folder was shared to other accounts, and then one of those accounts deleted that parent folder. The parent folder is removed, but the files and folders within that parent folder still exist- so they are orphaned.

 

To ensure your scenario is fully understood, please create a tree structure representation of one example of the problem. For example if the file ABC.txt was "orphaned" please indicate something similar to:

 

Computers\My Computer\Groups Data\ABC.txt

 

or 

 

My Drive\Groups Data\ABC.txt

 

Just create a similar indicator of exactly where the file should be located prior to it being orphaned.