How to Transfer Your Google Drive Files to Another Account

• Download and upload 

• Sharing 

• Using Google Takeout 

• From the Google Admin Console 

• Using a third-party cloud backup tool like SysCloud

1. Download and upload

How to transfer Google Drive to another account using the download and upload method

• Step 1: Log in to the account from which you want to transfer the files. 

• Step 2: Locate the file/folder that you want to transfer.

• Step 3: Right-click on the file/folder and click on the option “Download." 

• Step 4: Log in to the account into which you want to transfer the downloaded files.

• Step 5: Navigate to “My Drive” and click the “File upload” or “Folder upload” option depending on what you have downloaded. 

• Step 6: Upload the downloaded file/folder to this user account accordingly. 

2. Sharing

How to transfer Google Drive to another account using sharing feature

• Step 1: Log in to the account from which you want to transfer the files.

• Step 2: Locate the file/folder that you want to transfer.

• Step 3: Right-click on the file/folder and click on the option ‘Share’.

• Step 4: Enter the email id of the user account to which you want to transfer the file and click “Done”.

• Step 5: Once the new user is added, click on the drop-down button next to their user account, and select the “Transfer ownership” option. A pop-up appears asking for confirmation. Click “Yes.”

  You will find the file under “My Drive” in the second account.  

3. Using Google Takeout

How to transfer Google Drive to another account using Google Takeout

• Step 1: Log in to Google Takeout.

• Step 2: Under the “CREATE A NEW EXPORT” section, click “Deselect all,” then click on the box against the option “Drive,” and click “Next step”.

• Step 3: Customize your archive format by selecting the Destination, Frequency of the export, and File type & size, then click “Create Export”.

• Step 4: Once the export is completed, you will receive an email notification. Click the “Download your files” button in the email.

• Step 5: Alternatively, you can check the status on the “Manage your exports” page and click the “Download” button next to your export. 

• Step 6: Once you download the exported file, you can upload it to the user account to which you wanted to transfer these files.

4. Using the Google admin console

How to transfer Google Drive to another account from the Google admin console

• Step 1: Log in to Google Admin Console with your admin credentials.

• Step 2: Navigate to Apps> Google Workspace> Drive and Docs.

• Step 3: Click “Transfer ownership”.

• Step 4: Enter the current owner’s email address in the “From user” field and the new owner’s email address in the “To user” field. Click “TRANSFER FILES”. 

Limitations of using native methods to transfer Google Drive Files

• Google Takeout only exports files that you have created or uploaded. Files shared with you by others are not included, so you’ll need to manually download those from the “Shared with me” section. 

• The download and upload process can be very slow, potentially taking several days or weeks, depending on the number and size of your files. 

• When downloading multiple files, whether manually or using Google Takeout, Google compresses them into archives. To recreate your original Drive structure in the new account, you will need to extract these archives and manually reorganize the files before uploading them. 

• The admin console method is restricted to transfers within the same Google Workspace domain. 

5. Using SysCloud

How to transfer Google Drive to another account using SysCloud

• Step 1: Log in to SysCloud.

• Step 2: Click on Archives from the top navigation menu bar.

• Step 3: Click on the user account whose data you want to transfer to another account. This will take you to the user archives of that account. 

• Step 4: Click on “Google Drive” from the app list.

• Step 5: On the left-hand side, select “My Drive”. If you want to transfer your shared drive files, select “Shared Drive.” Click “Restore”.

• Step 6: Enter the user email id to whose account you want to transfer the files. If you want to transfer the files with sharing permissions, select the checkbox next to “Restore all share permissions”. Click “Restore”.

• Step 7: You can check the status of your file transfer on the “Restore Report” page. The file transfer process will take a few minutes to complete depending on the number of files that need to be transferred.