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I noticed this behavior on Google Drive.

When a link is created for a file on Google Drive, the link is valid until the file is deleted.

Moving the file to another folder(s) does not affect the behavior of url.

I will like to understand how they achieved this at scale.

Ifeoluwa Osungade
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This is an expected behavior when moving files to another folder within your google drive. This is because a google file URL is usually composed of the following:

  • product domain enter image description here
  • product enter image description here
  • document Id enter image description here

Therefore, moving the file to another folder within the google drive will not affect the file URL because file path is not included in the URL format.

References:

  1. Google Sheets API Overview
  2. Docs API
George
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  • Thank you for you response, how is the folder structure managed? – Ifeoluwa Osungade Nov 30 '22 at 19:18
  • You can manage folder structure using `Drive API`. You can create and populate folders,search for specific files and folders in the drive API. You can further explore managing files and folders here (https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/about-files). Also you can manually organize and manage your files in the drive interface, please see this link for more details. (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375091?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=) – George Dec 01 '22 at 00:36