Originally Posted by itsmymoney
Ok, novice here with Google Drive and 'cloud' and creating a URL for the documents on Google Drive.
1) I've uploaded some docs to my 'MY DRIVE' on Google Drive. This is probably a stupid question, but until I 'share' MY DRIVE with others then those docs are private to me, correct? Probably should have asked that question prior, but here we are.
That is correct
Originally Posted by itsmymoney
2) Doug555 mentioned TINYURL.com so I went there. They give you an example of a long url which is then converted to a small one. So let's say I convert my personal MY DRIVE url to a small one. So I then provide that tiny url on my 1040 for the IRS to view the checks/slips. My question is: So just by providing that tiny url to 'someone' (in this case IRS) they can then view those docs on my personal MY DRIVE? I was under the impression that you need to grant 'share permissions' to others to view your MY DRIVE files, so I'm confused with how this all works.
I just did the google drive for the 1st time the other day also, but it's pretty simple really. I recall there were three options for sharing:
1 - No share, you view/edit only
2 - Anybody w/ a link you give them (IMPORTANT you check off VIEW ONLY)
3 - Everybody/Anybody which allows the "busy-bodys" to find the docs off a search engine (check VIEW ONLY of course)
Originally Posted by itsmymoney
3) Is that LUMIN PDF viewer 'secure'? It's a 3rd-party viewer, but I'm probably over thinking it here. Main reason is that some of the PDF docs are upside down and I/others need the rotation feature to right-side-them up.
I noticed this the other day on one of your posts here....stuff was upside down....sounds to me like you might have to rotate your docs 180° before sending them out to the interwebs
Originally Posted by itsmymoney
Any help is greatly appreciated for the novice. Thanks.
I was able to check all this stuff out about my new Google drive....I use Chrome as my browser of choice, but I also have Internet Explorer 8. So signed in @ Chrome, & I couldn't access the Google drive shared link on IE8 until I set the share correctly.
Hope this helps IMM