Google Tips
Google Drive
- Warning - deleting a file from a shared folder has unpredictable consequences.
- "An item was automatically placed in" message appears in the Info / Activity pane
- "they made a change recently in which, when someone else deletes your file, the file is put back "automatically" into your root folder in My Drive" [1]
- "I'm just deleting thousands of empty folder and files in the root folder manually!!!"[2]
- "can we automate this and to redirect all files "automatically placed on My Drive" will be put on a dump folder so My Drive will not be messy."[3]
- "please make it at least an opt-out option to prevent this duplication of files for people who are knowingly changing ownership over files." [4]