How To Set An Expiry Date For Google Drive Share Links

How to Set an Expiry Date for Google Drive Share Links

The method is quite straightforward and easy, and you just need to follow the simple steps below to proceed.

Steps To set an Expiry Date for Google Drive Share Links:

1. First of all, you will have to open up the “Script Page” on your web browser and then make it work with your Google Drive account. This will be very simple to do as you will be asked for the access to your Google Drive account once you load up the script page on your browser.
2. Just read up the whole permissions that are required by clicking on the ‘Review Permissions‘ button on the script page. Remember to read up the full leaves as these are paramount and greatly related to your account.
3. After accepting the permissions, you can then use the script page to contact with your Google Drive account.
4. Just select up the file from your Google Drive that you want to share with the link set to Expire after some time. To choose the file click on the ‘Open Drive’ button on the script page and then log in to your Google Drive account and then from there get up the file you want to share.
5. Now inside the script page only, you will have to fill the email addresses to whom you want to send the selected file and then in the next step on the same page only you can set up the expiry time too.
6. Once you have set up the expiry time for the share links that the script page has automatically generated for the selected file, your file will be then shared and with the Expiry time feature. Note: You can also cancel the shared links or you can delete the shared link before the expiry time also by clicking on the ‘Cancel’ option placed aside the shared files details. So that’s the simplest method by which you can quickly set up the Expiry date for the Google Drive share links and hence you can make your transfers much safer, and also your Google Drive Account as through that links there can be the chances that your Google Drive account could be hacked. To make sure that your have secure data transfers through your Google Drive you should always set up the Expiry Date for your Share links.