# How to best organize/optimize your Google Drive?

What are some tips on best organizing and optimizing Google Drive for a team of ~40 people?

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: Business Development Representative
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

It depends very much on your organization and files.  In general it is no different than organizing files and folders anywhere.  The "shared drives" features are closest to the central management/administration model most traditional IT shops are comfortable with.  Read up on that.  Used to be called Team Drives...Make sure you understand the differences before letting your users go "wild west" and set up their own shared folders in "My Drive" that becomes a nightmare.  I would recommend creating a tradional public share and departmental shares for the users with a service account under Shared Drives for a start...

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: IT Manager




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