Shared Libraries

A shared Library groups accessible folders from another person inside your personal Library. You do not enter their account or gain access to all their content.

Open shared content

1. Switch to your personal workspace and open Library.
2. At the Library root, select the source name to open its menu. From a nested folder, first select the root name to return there. On compact screens, the Library title with its arrow also opens the source menu.
3. Under Library sources, choose the sharing person's name.
4. Browse the available folders. Use the same menu and select My Library to return to your own source.

Accessible top-level folders from the same person are grouped together. Similar names may include an email or account identifier to distinguish sources. The path stops at accessible roots; it does not expose hidden parent folders. Library search uses the selected source and your visible content filters.

Review a folder invitation

When pending folder invitations are present, the Library shows a folder invitations bar. Select Review, check the folder, inviter, and role, then choose Accept or Decline. Acceptance adds the offered direct folder permission. Adding an existing contact through Share Folder > Add member is a direct grant and does not require this invitation step.

Use the account the invitation was sent to. Expired, revoked, already handled, or deleted-folder invitations cannot be accepted again. Ask the sharing person to review the grant if needed; keep an erroring invitation dialog open for a retry after a temporary failure.

Editing and ownership

Actions depend on each folder's effective permission, the content owner's workspace capabilities and storage, and the current app context. One source can contain both writable and read-only folders. Its overall label is not a promise that every folder has the same access.

Read/write permits supported content edits; Owner can also manage folder members when the folder is writable. Neither role turns the source into your own organization workspace. Shared content remains owned in its original workspace. See Folder permission levels.

Leave a folder

Open the folder, then More Library actions > Leave Folder and confirm. This removes your direct grant on that folder; it does not delete the folder or its content. The action is offered for non-root folders with a direct grant. You cannot leave the last direct Owner position without another direct Owner.

Inherited access can keep the folder visible after leaving. It must be changed at its granting parent. Guardian or organization access is managed through its own relationship; leaving a folder is not a way to revoke those relationships.

If content is missing

Check the personal workspace, source menu, search, and content filters. An organization Library only offers its own source. Refresh after permission changes. Removing one grant may leave others in place; when no applicable access remains, the shared folder is no longer available. Ask the folder Owner to restore the intended permission.