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Understanding SITE vs LIBRARY/LIST vs FOLDER/FILE/ITEM permissions
I created a SharePoint site through MSTeams, for the sake of argument lets say it's called "PLANT_SITE". Within this site, I have a few libraries and lists. LIB1 > SUB1.2 > SUB1.2 LIB2 > SUB...
GuyCarnegie Access rights is inherited "top-down". It is documented here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/understanding-permission-levels
A user will for example not be able to open a page or a library if she/he does not have access to the "start". Thus everyone should have access to the top level and you can restrict permissions on libraries and/or files but that will most probably give you a lot of work to manage it afterwards.
Regards, Magnus