It appears Google Shared Drive sharing functionality has changed recently to be less precise and granular than it was. Has anyone else encountered this issue? If so, how are you handling this?
Issue description:
One of our organization's shared drives contains sensitive data and is only shared with the executive team. Within that shared drive, we have subsidiary folders organized based on each corporation we have. We share data from these sub-folders with our accounting firm, and it's convenient to send them a link to each entity. However, within those entity folders, there may be information that is not strictly financial or tax-related that may not be appropriate to share with the accounting firm. Accordingly, we'd like to restrict sharing permissions to certain sub-folder and files per shared entity sub-folder. I discovered that this functionality has recently changed, no longer works like it used to, and requires changing the top-level folder sharing to be the same as sub-folders and files. This oddly arbitrary sharing restriction in comparison to MyDrive functionality makes Shared Drive data organization impossible on any basis other than who the data is shared with. Why the difference between MyDrive and Shared Drive sub-folder sharing functionality?
Links to the Google Support chat transcript and screen captures of functionality differences between MyDrive and Shared Drives are provided for reference.
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