When you seek to password protect a file or folder, you’re effectively restricting access to it. The only way to access the information is to access the Google Drive’s Google Account. Everything is private to the Google Drive’s Google Account owner. So in that sense, your Google Drive is password protected. You can share information directly from your Google Drive with others. When you log in to your Google Account, you also log in to your Google Drive.

When you create a Google Account, you’re given 15 gigabytes of storage in Google Drive.Īccess to your Google Drive is connected to your Google Account. Google Drive is a cloud storage platform associated with your Google Account. As a last resort, you can also upload a password protected zip file.

You can also create new folders and provision access.

You can unshare folders with individuals to restrict their access.

Unshared Google Drive folders are effectively password protected.

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