Solution to Migrate Google Drive Data to New Account
With Google Drive, you can easily share documents and files with other people who have a Google account. Users can effortlessly create folders in Google Drive and conserve multiple files that contain various associated items. This includes documents, slides, spreadsheets, PDFs, etc. So without further ado, enter the blog and learn how to efficiently migrate Google Drive data to a new account.
Quick Solution: Use Google Drive Migrator Tool to seamlessly migrate Google Drive data to another account.
Migrate Files from Google Drive to New Account Using Download & Upload
1: Log in to the account you want to migrate files from.
2: Find the file/folder you want to migrate.
3: Right-click the file/folder, and then click the “Download” option.
4: Log in to the account to which you want to migrate the downloaded file.
5: Go to “My Drive”, and click the “Upload File” or “Upload Folder” option according to the downloaded content.
6: Now, the last step is to upload the downloaded file/folder into the account accordingly.
Note: The time required to download and upload files/folders depends on the size
Steps to Migrate Google Drive to New Account Using Sharing Feature
1: Log in to the account you want to migrate files from.
2: Find the file/folder you want to transfer files from Google Drive to Google Drive account.
3: Right-click the file/folder, and then click the “Share” option.
4: Enter the email ID of the user account from which the user has to migrate the file, and lastly click the “Advanced” option.
5: Click “Send”. Click the drop-down button next to the new user account and select the “Is the owner” option. Click “Done”.
6: You can find the file under “My Drive” in the second account.
Note: After the ownership is transferred, you will no longer own the file.
Steps to Migrate Google Drive Data to New Account Using Google Takeout
1: Log in to Google Takeout.
2: Under “Create a new archive”, click the box next to the “Drive” option, and then click “Next”.
If you only want to move a specific folder in “My Drive” to another account, click “All Data” to select that folder.
This option does not allow you to transfer files in “Shared with Me” or “Team Drive”.
3: In the next window, you can customize the archive format by selecting the migrate method and file type and clicking “Create Archive”.
4: The progress bar shows the download status. The time required to create the archive depends on the amount of data to be archived. The more files, the longer it takes to download.
5: When the archive is ready, you will receive an email notification. Otherwise, you can check the status on the data download page.
6: Click the “Download” button next to the archived file.
7: After downloading the archive files, you can upload them to the user account to which the files will be migrated.
Steps to Migrate Google Drive Data to New Account Using Professional Solution:
1: Run the migration tool to quickly migrate data from Google Drive to new account.
2: After selecting “Document” in “Workload Selection”, provide the G Suite as the source admin details. You can also apply various filters provided by the tool in the workload part itself.
3: After completing the above steps, verify the details of the source Admin. Go to the “Destination” screen and fill in the G Suite details as “Destination.” Press Validate.
4: Go to the “Users” screen. Find users, and then add users from the source account that has to be processed.
5: Click Verify to authorize the selected user’s source and destination resources, and then start to migrate data from Google Drive to new account.
Continue Reading: Find the effective way to move files from from Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive account.
FINAL WORDS
It is always a blessing to have Google Drive storage space because files can be stored in it and can be easily accessed from anywhere. However, there is no reliable solution to migrate Google Drive data to new account. With the help of a set of limitations in the manual method, it is wise to use the Google Drive Migration tool, which has overcome all the manual limitations faced by users.
