Watched Selected Items in Drive

The Watched Selected Items button can be used on any of your shared folders in Drive, or files within shared folder. When you set a watch on a shared folder in Drive, you will get notifications when others with access to that same shared folder make changes within it.

• You cannot set a watch on a private folder or loose files in Drive.

To set a watch on a shared folder, select the checkbox next to the shared folder, and click the Watched Selected Items button.

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Notifications for watched shared folders can be found here, in the Watched section of the left-hand menu of Drive.

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There, on the Recent Changes tab, you’ll see notifications of the changes being made to that watched item

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The Watched Items tab will show any items you set a watch on, and also allows you to unwatch items by selecting the checkbox next to an item and clicking the Unwatch button.

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You can also set getting an email notification for when you get new watched item alerts.

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• The default is set to None. but you can set it to Weekly (getting an email once a week that details all the changes to watched items within that past week), Daily (getting an email once a day that details all the changes to watched items within that past day), or Immediate (getting emails within a few seconds of the change occurring).

  • Please note that for Immediate, you will only get an email once every 15 minutes, so as to not over spam you. So if multiple changes occur to a watched item within 15 minutes, you will get a new email when the 15 minute wind expires to address all the changes that occurred.

• Also please note that the email comes into your regular commercial mailbox, not your PreVeil mailbox, and does not detail the changes, as we do not want to expose file or folder names in the notification email. It just alerts you to the fact that changes occurred, you then need to go into the Watched section of Drive to get the details about the changes.