Can you move (Migrate) Google My Drive FOLDERS to Shared Drives?

[Jaan]

Long story short. We need to migrate a users My Drive to a Shared (Team) Drive.

 

This user has a organised folder structure (SHOCK HORROR). I can migrate individual files to a Shared (Team) drive. But i want to migrate a folder, its substructure and any files that are in it.

 

I can't seem to do this. Am i missing something?

 

Thanks in advance.

[smurfomatic]

It's possible - but not easy. It's annoying that Google Drive doesn't have a "copy/move folder" option!

 

I've had to use rclone recently, that was moving files from one folder to another in the same shared drive, but the same principle should apply:

 

https://rclone.org/drive/

[DGardiner]

Long story short. We need to migrate a users My Drive to a Shared (Team) Drive.This user has a organised folder structure (SHOCK HORROR). I can migrate individual files to a Shared (Team) drive. But i want to migrate a folder, its substructure and any files that are in it.I can't seem to do this. Am i missing something?Thanks in advance.

if i remember right theres am option in the admin panel to restrict migrations. i know i can move stuff from my drive to a shared drive without issue

[Jaan]

if i remember right theres am option in the admin panel to restrict migrations. i know i can move stuff from my drive to a shared drive without issue

 

Isnt that for files only though, not folders

[jthompson]

I think you need a particular admin privilege to be able to migrate folders into a Shared Drive. You can create a custom admin role to assign to the user, with the role just having that one particular privilege.

 

See the last section of this: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7374057.

 

Alternatively, share the necessary folders with an admin account that is also included in the Shared Drive, so that it can be done by that user instead.

[Jaan]

I think you need a particular admin privilege to be able to migrate folders into a Shared Drive. You can create a custom admin role to assign to the user, with the role just having that one particular privilege.

 

See the last section of this: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7374057.

 

Alternatively, share the necessary folders with an admin account that is also included in the Shared Drive, so that it can be done by that user instead.

 

Excellent, i'll look into this and report back.

[Jaan]

This worked a treat!! Thanks

 

Shame this isn't a setting in the admin panel yet.