I've linked a variety of Google Drive folders containing public documents to my organization's website for ease of updating. These are all set to "Public on the web" as seen here:
So clearly not restricted to my organization or even someone logged in to a Google account.
However today I received an access request for this same folder:
I'm mostly paranoid that there is still some subset of users out there that this setting restricts from access, I don't want to go forward with this solution if it's going to result in someone not being able to see important information or me having to manually share a folder with strangers periodically.
It may be the case that the person has access and was confused so they sent me the request anyway.
Any advice?
Best Answer
The person requested edit access. They most likely did not realize that they didn't need this level of access. The process they followed was probably this:
First, they wanted to share the folder, so they went to the sharing settings for the folder:
Then, when clicking on "Share", they would have been presented with this dialogue box, and filled out the e-mail address that requested access:
Your question is similar to one which asked the reverse: how to request edit access, given view access.