Also note that you are the owner of the copied file and will be held responsible for policy violations or other issues linked to the file. Please note that this works only if you are signed in to a Google Account. Since you are the owner of the copied file, you may download it to your local system this way.

Select the copy of the file with a right-click, and there download to download the file to your local system.īasically, what this does is create a copy of the file on your own Drive account.

Select it with a right-click, and then the 'make a copy' option from the menu.

You should see the locked file on your drive now.

However, it is possible for users to find these documents via Google Search using a filter.

Click on 'add to my drive' again to open your Google Drive storage in a new tab in the browser. Google Drive does not offer the option to search for other users' public documents.

Click on the 'add to my drive' icon at the top right.

This loads a new screen with controls at the top.

Load the address again once you have replaced uc with open in the address.

Locate the 'uc' part of the address, and replace it with 'open', so that the beginning of the URL reads.

It simply shows the error message but no other controls or options. The most common error is shown on the screenshot above.

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