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title: "Sharing Files"
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tags: ["8.2", "Portal"]
updated: 2024-10-08T12:16:26Z
published: 2024-10-08T12:16:26Z
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# Sharing Files

The following ways can be used to share files or folders in your cloud drive with other people:

- To share with broad audiences, or over public mediums such as LinkedIn, use **Public Links**. You can define whether the link recipients are able to respond by uploading edited files back to the shared folder. See [Making Content Public](/v1/docs/making-content-public-7).
- To share files or folders with team members, external users, or entire groups, use the **Collaborators** feature. See [Collaborating on Files](/v1/docs/collaborating-on-files-7).
- To enable collaborators to access a file or folder directly, use a *permalink* to the file or folder so that the collaborators have a direct link to what they need. See [Setting Up Collaboration Directly to the Content (Permalinks)](/v1/docs/setting-up-collaboration-directly-to-the-content-permalinks-4).

Any shared files and folders are accessible by the other users based on the ACLs defined. Therefore, if a folder is shared with an internal user but the folder does not have any ACL access permissions, when the user attempts to access the folder a message similar to the following is displayed: `You have no permission to view this folder.`

Both public links and collaboration are not available on folders with ACL permissions for external users.

          **Note**

          

If you want to share a file or folder with a user who does not have ACL access permissions, copy the folder or file to somewhere private, such as your local PC or to a cloud folder that only you have access to, and which has the necessary ACL access permissions.