Hi Charles, I don't know if there's technically a limit on Google accounts, but I at one point had three for various purposes. They are linked to a Gmail account -- I suppose you could have as many as you wanted (just create a new Gmail account/Google account).
That being said, you only share the individual files or folders within any Google Drive account that you want someone to have access to. Your patron would not need a separate Google Drive account to prevent others from seeing items in her original Google Drive account. If she has 50 items in her Google Drive account, and she only wants to share one of those (say an mp4 video), she would simply "share" or allow access to just that one mp4 video. Doing so would not give anyone access to the other 49 files in that Drive. I hope this helps. Karen Schifferdecker, MSIS Electronic Resources Librarian Library Collections & Discovery Western Kentucky University On 9/12/23, 11:20 AM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of charles meyer" <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG <mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of reachmepl...@gmail.com <mailto:reachmepl...@gmail.com>> wrote: [You don't often get email from reachmepl...@gmail.com <mailto:reachmepl...@gmail.com>. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> ] My esteemed listmastes, We're not permitted to use Google Drive as employees of the library. For those who do use Google Drive, a patron wants to load her mp4 videos of historic import onto her Google Drive so with a link she can share those videos but not allow anyone access to the rest of her content on her Google drive. It would seem safer to create another Google Drive account and load those mp4 videos on that Google Drive account so no one has access to the other Google Drive account. Does Google allow more than one Google Drive account by the same user? If not, is there any way to "lock" out access to certain content on your one Google Drive account? Thank you. Charles. Charlotte County Public Library
