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pinoyyid
pinoyyid

Reputation: 22306

Google Drive folder deletion behavior

I have a document (FILE-1) with two parent folders (FOLDER-1 and FOLDER-2).

If I delete FOLDER-1, FILE-1 is also deleted. However, I expected that only FOLDER-1 would be deleted, and removed as a parent of FILE-1, which would be left intact.

Is this the intended behavior, or a bug?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2810

Answers (2)

agaonsindhe
agaonsindhe

Reputation: 594

I also found same thing but I think they want this only..that when a folder is moved to trash all the items in that folder will also be moved to trash.

They might have done something like if you are willing to delete a folder they would have asked for the confirmation messaging whether user wants to delete files inside it or not and if not they would have asked user to move it to another folder but again its there choice and there way of thinking.

Upvotes: 1

addiedx44
addiedx44

Reputation: 2743

It appears to be by design according to this Google Drive support documentation. It seems as though trashing a folder and removing a parent from a file are two completely different things.

3. The folder will be moved to Trash, and all items in that folder will also be moved to Trash.

Upvotes: 4

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