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Transfer encrypted versions of your Google Drive files to another service The Fogpad site's About page describes its 256-bit AES encryption as "military-grade cryptography" but offers no other details about the service's encryption methodology. In my testing, encrypted files wouldn't download, and when I shared a link to an encrypted file, the recipient was unable to open the file. The file name appears in the list, and the file type is labeled "undefined." No preview of the file appears when you select it.Ĭlick Open > Fogpad and enter the file's password to open it in the Fogpad editor. When you press the Back button you return to the main Google Drive window.

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.The Fogpad text-editing window provides basic formatting and content-creation options. 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. Note: We’re going to make a folder password protected using Google Forms & Google Drive. If you want to make a particular file or document password protected, you can go through the exact same steps. 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. Here’s how we’ll get a link to the folder:

Right click the folder you want to password protect.

Click on “Get shareable link” – this will both create a shareable link as well as copy it to your clipboard.

Make sure it says “Anyone with the link can view” (if you don’t want people to be able to edit anything).

Click on the big plus sign at the top left hand corner under where it says “Start a new form”.

Click where it says “Untitled form” to title your form.

Click where it says “Form description” to write a description – you can skip this step if you want.

Click where it says “Untitled Question” and write “What is the password?”.

Make sure it says “Short answer” in a box next to your question.Where it says “Required” make sure it’s turned on (the circle should be on the right side and the color should be purple – click on the right side if needed).