# improve interfaces, editable to the user?

Occasionally I find it difficult to find some files that are shared with me, I would like to know that it may be that I have badly configured?

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago
- Author title: Estudiante en Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica 'Antonio José de Sucre'
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

Yea u can  because the options looks little complicated the interface as well . On home screen of drive You can go to the life side which is navigation bar and select the files u der recents if they uploaded recently. And you are specifically looking for some other files if you have thousands of data , So there u can sort them according to name if u don't know name of the file then go with size if u are aware or if u recently open the file last month according to need . One more thing u can view them as list if not thumbnail.

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago
- Author title: Software Developer at BelWo Inc



### Comment 2

Sort by "shared with me," or ask whoever sent the doc to click "notify" when sharing. Now, you will receive an email with the attached file.

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago



### Comment 3

Nothing like configured or not just go to shared with me option and you get all the files shared to you

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago
- Author title: Btech Information Technology
Big Data / Hadoop  Developer



### Comment 4

You will find shared with me option which includes all the files shared by others to you

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago



### Comment 5

There's usually a "Shared with me" menu item to the left side. If this doesn't show for you try checking this link on how to make that shortcut appear, depending on the device you're using.: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375057?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en&oco=0#

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### Comment 6

The problem usually occurs with 3rd party cloud storage solutions. i.e. Windows X may or may not index cloud directories. It might be possible to add your 'Google Drive' to your indexing; but it likely easier to just search Google Drive directly if that is where the data lives. (Select 'Google Drive' in Windows Explorer and then attempt the search from there.)

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago



### Comment 7

I don't think it is that you (the user) has it badly configured, but rather that how it was set up is not that clear or intuitive. I've had the same problem. Try right clicking your mouse - you may find some easier ways to find the files, or try looking up your PC or MACs file system.

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- Posted at: over 5 years ago
- Author title: Fund Raising Professional




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