Responding to an invitation to a file sharing workspace

You respond to file sharing workspace invitations the same way you do for other Groove workspace invitations: you receive an invitation message with options to accept or decline the invitation. See Responding to a workspace invitation for details.

However, unlike with workspaces, the content data in a file sharing workspace is NOT automatically downloaded from the inviter's computer after you accept the invitation. Instead, you must first specify options for how to download this data as described below.

Downloading the content data in a file sharing workspace

When you first navigate to a file sharing workspace, you're prompted to create or select a folder in your Windows system to be shared with other workspace members.

Additionally, you're prompted to specify an initial download setting: "Fetch everything (automatic download)" or "Only fetch links to remote files (manual download on demand)". If you select "Fetch everything", all data content in the file sharing workspace is downloaded immediately, provided that another member who has the content is online. If you select "Only fetch links to remote files", the file sharing workspace will list links to data files and you can download them later, on demand. You can change download settings at any time in folder properties.

Note: The default download option you see varies depending on the initial contents of the file sharing workspace. If the workspace contains at least 100 files, or any one file that's 100MB or larger, then manual download is presented as the suggested default option.