Google Drive- no longer gives a copy & paste URL hyperlink to share videos etc.?

Jubudz

Hi.  In the past, when sharing a video (for instance) from my Google Drive was as simple as a right click on the item & choose the share a link option at which point another little window would appear with a proper URL hyperlink to the particular video.  This URL could be easily copy & pasted to an email or Whatsapp etc.. Now GD no longer supplies a URL as far as I can tell.  You can copy a link to Clipboard seemingly but no URL link immediately available.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

wongataa

Copying a link to the clipboard does the same thing as copying it manually.  The clipboard is always used for copying operations.  The current method just saves you having to select the URL and hit copy.  Just go to wherever you want to post the link and hit paste after copying to the clipboard.  Then you will see the link.

pramsay13

I think they have rearranged the right click menu items but I still get the share / copy link option. 
What options are you getting when you click share?

flaneurs_lobster

Are you accessing Google Drive via File Explorer (no explicit URL generated on Share) or using the web interface at drive.google.com? The latter does copy a URL to the clipboard.

Jubudz

Hi & thanks for the responses.  Unfortunately there is no actual clipboard in Windows 8.1 even though it states as copied.  Apparently a third party software needs to be installed.  I am using Edge to access my Google account/drive as normal.  When I right click on the video to get a URL the link it does give me is simply the title of the video in question...hence not a link at all.  The same actions not so long in the past would display a proper URL clickable link.

PHK

There is a clipboard, but no clipboard viewer.

When it's copied the link go to your email or whatever and do right click>paste or simply type CTL-V

(The words you are seeing are the Alt Text, the human readable part of the link rather than the machine readable https:// etc which is "underneath" the text. If you don't want to see that then change your email client or whatever to plain text rather than HTML)

flaneurs_lobster

Jubudz said:

Hi & thanks for the responses.  Unfortunately there is no actual clipboard in Windows 8.1 even though it states as copied.  Apparently a third party software needs to be installed.  I am using Edge to access my Google account/drive as normal.  When I right click on the video to get a URL the link it does give me is simply the title of the video in question...hence not a link at all.  The same actions not so long in the past would display a proper URL clickable link.

There most certainly is a Clipboard in Windows 8.1.

The obvious thing to try is a Windows 10/11 machine, if not available then it also works (copy link/paste) on an Android phone using the Drive app.

Jubudz

Thanks.  Where is the clipboard to be located on Windows 8.1?  However, doing anything other than the original method of right clicking on the video to display the Google Drive window showing the URL hyperlink is long & around the houses so to speak.  I think Google have probably changed something in the last year or so.