Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to Desktop or Other Place

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• User Case: How to Implement Google Drive Shared With Me Sync?
• Why Do Users Want Google Drive Shared With Me Sync?
• Situation 1: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to Desktop
• Situation 2: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to My Drive
• Situation 3: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to Another Drive
• Summary

User Case: How to Implement Google Drive Shared With Me Sync?

"I have a personal gmail account. I want to sync the Shared with me folder to my desktop instead of accessing it through a browser. It seems impossible, all that appears is a shortcut. I just want to process the contents of this folder, it is an audio/video thing, no Google app can support video/audio editing."

"I have been granted access to the shared Google Drive folder. I want to download the content and modify/add/delete the content on my local machine regularly. I want to automatically sync my changes to Google Drive itself in the same shared Google Drive folder used by multiple users. What should I do? "

"Someone shared some folders with me in Google Drive and planned to delete the shared link. What he wanted me to do was download all the data to my local system so that he could delete the shared link in the future. But there is not enough space in my local system, and Google Drive can’t hold these contents. How to sync Shared with me folder in Google Drive directly to my pCloud instead of downloading the data and moving it to pCloud?"

Why Do Users Want Google Drive Shared With Me Sync?

From the above user questions, we can see that there are three main user needs: the content in Google Drive Shared with me needs to be synced to the desktop, My Drive or other clouds. These 3 points also reflect why users choose to sync the content in Google Drive Shared with me to other places.

In view of the above 3 situations, this article will provide solutions and detailed operation steps one by one. If you have any needs, the methods below can provide you with good support.

Situation 1: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to Desktop

Whether it is a family member sharing photos or a colleague sharing work data to your Google Drive account, if you want to sync the content in Shared with me to the desktop, you need to download it directly to the local through the "Download" option.

Step 1. Go to the Google Drive website and log in to your Google account.
Step 2. Open the Shared with me interface, and then select the content that needs to be synced to the desktop.
Step 3. Right-click the selected content and select "Download" in the pop-up window.

Situation 2: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to My Drive

If others have shared files and folders with you, you will see them in Shared with me. These files and folders will not be synced to the Google Drive folder on your computer unless you add them to My Drive.

Here are the steps to sync the files and folders in Shared with me of Google Drive:

Step 1. Make sure you are connected to the Internet.
Step 2. Go to the Google Drive website and log in to your account.
Step 3. Find Shared with me in the main interface and select the data that needs to be sync to My Drive.
Step 4. Right-click the selected file or folder with the mouse, and then select "Add shortcut to Drive" in the pop-up window.

Step 5. Open the Google Drive desktop application, and then open My Drive in the Google Drive virtual hard disk, you will find that the shared content will be stored in it in the form of a shortcut.

After the operation is completed, you can periodically modify/add/delete the shared content, but only if the sharer has granted the "Editor" permission. In addition, if you want to be faster, you can also choose the shortcut: Shift+Z.

Situation 3: Google Drive Shared With Me Sync to Another Drive

When the sharer is about to delete the sharing task, you need to download the content in Shared with me, only to find that the local drive and My Drive cannot store so much data, then how to sync to other clouds, such as pCloud. Because Google drive does not provide the option of directly syncing the content in Shared with me to other cloud drives, you can only choose third-party tools.

As a professional cloud sync tool, MultCloud can support you to directly sync the data in Shared with me to pCloud, without first downloading it locally and then uploading it. Now, MultCloud mainly provides core functions such as Cloud Sync, Cloud Transfer, Cloud Backup and Remote Upload. Among them, Cloud Sync can support you to directly perform sync tasks.

And, MultCloud supports more than 30 clouds, such as Dropbox, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, G Suite, Google Photos, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, MEGA, Flickr, FTP, Box, pCloud, Amazon S3, MySQL, NAS and WebDav, FTP/SFTP etc. Of course, MultCloud also supports Shared with me subdivided in Google Drive.

With the Cloud Sync provided by MultCloud, you can sync Google Drive Shared with me to pCloud in only 4 steps.

Step 1. Go to the MultCloud homepage and create an account.
Step 2. Enter the back-end interface of MultCloud, click the "Add Cloud" icon on the left, select Shared with me in the list on the right, and then grant MultCloud access to Google Drive.

Step 3. Add pCloud in the same way.
Step 4. Click the "Cloud Sync" icon on the left, and select Shared with me and pCloud as the source and destination respectively. Finally click "Sync Now".

Summary

When you need Google Drive Shared with me Sync, you can choose the solutions provided in this article according to your needs. 

With the help of MultCloud, you can not only implement Shared with me sync regularly, but you can also use other functions it provides to implement cloud to cloud transfer, cloud to cloud backup and remote upload.