Share Drive files and request files with links

Links let people outside your workspace see files or send you files. They don’t need a Pellio account. To make a link you need edit access to the file or folder.

Share a file or folder

1. Open the file’s or folder’s ⋯ menu and click Share link…. For a folder, choose View and download.
2. If you like, set a Password (optional) and an Expires (optional) date. Untick Allow downloads if they should only preview.
3. Click Create link, then Copy and send it.

A link opens only what it was made for: the file, or the folder and everything in it. People play previews of video and audio, see images, and download files when downloads are allowed. With downloads off, the page says Downloads are turned off for this link.

Request files

1. Open the folder the files should land in and click Request files.
2. Set a password or expiry date if you like, then click Create upload link.
3. Copy the link and send it to the camera operator, client or agency.

They add their name and email once, then drop their files, up to 100 GB each. Files go straight into the folder; if a name is already taken, the new file gets a number, like name (2). Each file’s version shows who sent it (Upload link · Name <email>), and the link shows how many files it has received.

See and turn off links

Share link… on a file or folder lists its links under Links, with Password or No downloads when they apply and the expiry date (or No expiry). Click the bin button to turn a link off; it stops working at once.

Making and turning off links is recorded in your workspace’s audit log, under Drive.