{"id":1470,"date":"2016-08-15T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2016-08-15T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:21:19","slug":"google-drive-private-sharing-requires-a-google-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/google-drive-private-sharing-requires-a-google-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive Private Sharing Requires a Google Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody says, &#8220;It&#8217;s easy, just use Google Drive. It&#8217;s free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure Google wants you to think that.<\/p>\n<p>And it is easy except for one type of sharing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nPassword protected sharing to people who do not have a google account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be specific, here are the layers of sharing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Public. AKA Publish to the web. Everyone can view. Even strangers.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing with people by emailing them a link<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Good News: do not need to have a google account<\/li>\n<li>Bad news: ANYONE who has the link can view the file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Sharing with specific people only&#8211;ie only people who have the password<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad news: REQUIRES a google account. In fact, the password to their google account is what protects the file from unauthorized eyes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So the premium feature is sharing with ONLY SPECIFIC PEOPLE &#8211; WITHOUT a google account.<\/p>\n<p>Box.com can do it with paid subscription only. As little as $10 or $5 \/ month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody says, &#8220;It&#8217;s easy, just use Google Drive. It&#8217;s free.&#8221; And I&#8217;m sure Google wants you to think that. And it is easy except for one type of sharing: Password protected sharing to people who do not have a google &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/google-drive-private-sharing-requires-a-google-account\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}