
Click where it says “Untitled form” to title your form. Click on the big plus sign at the top left hand corner under where it says “Start a new form”. Make sure it says “Anyone with the link can view” (if you don’t want people to be able to edit anything). Click on “Get shareable link” – this will both create a shareable link as well as copy it to your clipboard. Right click the folder you want to password protect. Here’s how we’ll get a link to the folder: Then, we’ll create a form that asks for the password and then gives a link to the folder.įInally, we can share the form and the password to anyone who should have access to the folder.
If you want to make a particular file or document password protected, you can go through the exact same steps. Note: We’re going to make a folder password protected using Google Forms & Google Drive.
While there is no direct way to password protect a file or folder in Google Drive, you can definitely still do it! We’ll walk you through the steps in this tutorial.
Let’s say you want to share a file or a folder you have in your Google Drive – but you want to control who has access to it.