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• 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"
    • "I'm just deleting thousands of empty folder and files in the root folder manually!!!"
    • "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."
    • "please make it at least an opt-out option to prevent this duplication of files for people who are knowingly changing ownership over files."
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