Does Google Drive's 'per file' scope cascade into child folders/files?

Question

I\'m about to start building a small app on top of the Google Drive API.

I\'m a little bit nervous about giving the app full permissive scope to access a user\'s Dri

Answer 1

Per-file scope is for files that were created or explicitly opened by the user with that application. This permission does not cascade, but of course if your application creates the folder, it can create files within there, and will not have access to read other files.

This is not the same as the Dropbox application folder, it is a tighter permission. Google are working on other features in this vein, so please stay tuned