# What Shared with Me shows

Shared with Me lists the files and folders colleagues have shared with you, grouped by who shared them, with the permission each one came with.

Shared with Me is where other people's work arrives. When a colleague shares one of their files or folders with you by name, it turns up here under their name, so you never need to know which of their folders it came from.

**Video coming soon:** A tour of Shared with Me: what colleagues have passed to you, and how to share your own work in return.

## What you'll find here

- **Download a shared file**: Save a copy of anything a colleague has sent you.
- **See who shared what**: Items gathered under each colleague's name, with the permission they chose.
- **Share your own work**: Give a colleague access to a file or folder of yours.
- **Stop sharing**: Take someone off the list, and their access ends at once.
- **Make a public link**: Let somebody outside the organisation open one file.
- **Keep links in check**: Views, downloads, expiry dates and passwords at a glance.

## Sharing works both ways

![The top left of Nest with Shared with Me open. Below the header and a Shared with Me tab, the heading Shared with Me and a group headed Shared by Graham Whitfield holding Workshop Capacity Plan - Q4 2026.xlsx dated Sep 4, 2026, an Engineering KPIs folder dated Sep 2, 2026, and Workshop Apprenticeship Plan.docx dated Jun 15, 2026. Beneath it a second group headed Shared by Dermot Lynch holds Motor Rewind Record - WEG W22 15kW.xlsx.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/shared-with-me/shared-screen.png)

*One group per colleague, with files and folders side by side in it.*

This screen is the receiving end. The giving end has no screen of its own: you share from the item itself, through the **Share** entry on its menu in your folders or in Recent Files. What you share appears in your colleague's Shared with Me exactly the way their shares appear in yours.

Nothing here is a copy. A shared file stays in its owner's folder, so the version you download is always the one they have now.

**Share a file or folder** covers the giving end.

## Where to begin

- **Read Shared with Me**: How the list is grouped, and what each row tells you.
- **Open a shared item**: Download a shared file, and what a shared folder shows.

## Sharing well

- **Share the file, not the folder**: A shared folder opens only for someone who can already reach it. Files open for anyone you share them with.
- **Give outside links an end date**: A link that expires on its own can't be forgotten about.
- **Password anything confidential**: The address alone is then not enough to open the file.
- **Review who has access**: A glance at a file's sharing list shows who can still reach it.