Permissions and inheritance

There are four kinds of permissions or user privileges to files and folders.

Own : The user owns the data object (file) or the collection (directory) and has the full permission on reading, modifying or sharing the object.

Write : The user has read and write access to the object.

Read: The user can only read the object or its content.

None: The user does not have any permission on the object. One can use “none” when removing the previously assigned permissions to a user. When you are the owner of an object and accidentally set your own permissions to “none”, you can recover this by changing the permissions. Internally, you will remain the owner and can recover your permissions.\

Inheritance of user rights is activated by default. This means, that permissions set on the main collection/folder of the team drive will be the same on its sub-folder and files. If desired, permission inheritance can be disabled. Users who decide to disable permission inheritance should be aware that this means that permissions on all (sub)folders and files have to be set individually. Also, it should be noted that it is also possible to modify user permissions on specific subfolders or files when permission inheritance is activated on the main folder.