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Disable Chrome PDF viewer to skip the second click: chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments → toggle off.
Include &confirm=t if the server inserts a virus-scan warning on large items.
Batch-convert a list of IDs with a 2 s delay between requests to dodge 429 errors.
Gate access to university email domains in three clicks
Hit the file menu → “Manage access” → toggle “Restrict to domain” and enter @university.edu. Save. Only accounts ending in that suffix can view the document; external Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook addresses are blocked instantly.
Craft a view-only link that skips recipient login
Ctrl-click the file → Share → change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” → set role to Viewer → Grab. The resulting URL ends in ?usp=sharing; strip everything after the file ID (the 33-character string) and append /view. Insert the trimmed URL; recipients open it right away–no sign-in, no Google account prompt.
Skip checking the box “Notify people” when you produce the initial public link–extra invites baffle students who already tapped the clone link.
Lock the parent folder to “Viewer only” so duplicates land in the user’s own Drive without write access to your original.
Set up a seasonal reminder to run the built-in “File → Update link” routine; Google Drive public direct Link occasionally rolls out new URL formats that shatter the /copy suffix.
Trim Long Drive URLs Instantly
Trade the 200-character string with a 10-character code by dropping the file address into t.ly and clicking “Shrink”; the result is ready in under a second and stays valid as long as the original spreadsheet exists.
Schedule client hand-offs on Friday noon; reserve Saturday–Sunday for past-paper blocks. Silence get answered after 19:00 – auto-reply cites “study lockdown” to mute pressure without sounding unavailable.
If you must allow editing on the same document, move the file to a Shared drive where Content manager rights rule. Add students as Viewers or Commenters; only members with Manager status can rename. On a personal drive, ownership equals power–transfer ownership to yourself and retain sole Manager status to block rename attempts.
Dodge the “Request Access” Loop by Setting Public to Viewer
Alt-click the folder → “Share” → “Switch anyone with the link” → role: Viewer → “Apply”. Paste the URL in chat; recipients open it instantly–no login wall, no allow dance, zero delay.
Test with two devices: an iPhone 12 mini (iOS 17) and a Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 (Android 14). Both must open the payload URL in the default browser and begin the fetch within 1.2 s on 4G; if latency tops that, push the code through a CDN edge node closer to the user base.
Tack /uc?export=download&id= after the resource ID you snagged from the location bar, swap open? to uc?, and you obtain a 302-redirect that serves the payload straight into the browser–zero splash screen, forget login hurdles, full velocity.
Update an outdated file without breaking the old link
Right-click the file in the remote folder → «Manage versions» → «Add new revision». The URL remains unchanged; learners still access the same endpoint, but the viewer now delivers the updated PDF. No re-posting in the LMS, zero mass mail corrections.
Copy the ID bit that comes after /file/d/ or id=.
Insert it following export=media&id=.
Hit Enter. The browser pulls the binary bypassing the quota API.
This tweak coerces the server to stream the object as raw content rather than counting it against the daily 5 TB allowance.
Set the parent folder to “Link-shared – View only” only once you upload the archive; retrofitting permissions after the fact can take up to a coffee break to propagate through every CDN edge node, during which the click may spit a 403.
No-mouse: after the Share dialog opens, Tab twice to land on the role menu, press the underlined E (the underlined letter in “Editor”), then Tab to Save and Spacebar. Entire sequence: under a blink if the email is pre-filled.
Right-click the target folder inside the cloud repository, select “Get link”, flip the option to “Anyone with the link”, set the role to Viewer, duplicate the URL, and drop it into the course chat–students get read-only access in under ten seconds bypassing sign-in prompts.
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Turbo tip: glue &export=download to the public URL before you send it; the downloader’s browser snatches the preset direct to the default save folder, bypassing the preview page and cutting the transfer time to a quarter-second on a half-gig line.
Retain the original suffix: if the old note is called lecture3-electrostatics.pdf, name the upload exactly the same. The system treats it as a update, not a separate object, so links in Notion remain unbroken.