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Clicking on Make Public adds two additional groups to your sharing settings window: 1) all registered Synapse users and 2) anyone on the web. You can edit the level of access for either group and then click Save to make your changes. Note that you can only grant view permissions to “anyone on the web”. To remove the settings for these two groups, click Make Private.
Edit Sharing Settings on Files, Folders, and Tables
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You can adjust the sharing settings for individual Folders, Files, Tables, and Views separately from their parent Project or Folder. For example, you may wish to keep a particular Folder private while you make the Project public. Or you may want to share drafts of individual Files with collaborators first prior to sharing them publicly.
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