Moving 200GB from my old personal Google Drive to a new account. Share and copy loses ownership on files, download and reupload will take days on my connection. Smarter way to move between accounts?
How to move a Google Drive folder to another Google Drive account?
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Michael Scofield August 13, 2020
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Cloud-to-cloud, never through your own connection at 200GB.
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Same domain Workspace accounts: admin can transfer ownership wholesale from the admin console.
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Personal to personal: share the folder to the new account, then in the new account use Make a copy on the contents. Copies are owned by the new account. Clunky above a few thousand files.
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Big moves: SysTools Google Drive Migrator transfers server side between accounts, keeps folder structure and skips your bandwidth entirely. Also does Drive to OneDrive if you ever leave Google.
Server side transfer finished in hours, structure intact, my connection untouched. Solved.