Google Drive's File Sharing and Ownership Transfer Flow Is Hard to Locate
A user describes Google Drive's file organization and sharing controls as unintuitive, particularly the process for transferring folder or file ownership to another person, and found that Gemini's own in-app guidance for this task was incorrect. This points to a discoverability gap in core file-management actions within a widely used productivity suite.
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