Google Drive folder deletion behavior

Question

I have a document (FILE-1) with two parent folders (FOLDER-1 and FOLDER-2).

If I delete FOLDER-1, FILE-1 is also deleted. However, I expected that only FOLDER-1 would be deleted, and removed as a parent of FILE-1, which would be left intact.

Is this the intended behavior, or a bug?

Answer 1

It appears to be by design according to this Google Drive support documentation. It seems as though trashing a folder and removing a parent from a file are two completely different things.

3. The folder will be moved to Trash, and all items in that folder will also be moved to Trash.

Answer 2

I also found same thing but I think they want this only..that when a folder is moved to trash all the items in that folder will also be moved to trash.

They might have done something like if you are willing to delete a folder they would have asked for the confirmation messaging whether user wants to delete files inside it or not and if not they would have asked user to move it to another folder but again its there choice and there way of thinking.