Bulk moving files from multiple employees My drive to a single Shared Drive.

[mrkeys]

Hello Everyone. The school I am working for hasn't been using a shared drive for the past 2 or 3 years. All of their documents are shared out of multiple my drives. One member of staff has all of the schools curriculum docs sorted into one folder in her My Drive, This contains multiple different levels of permissions, owners, shortcuts etc. Is there a way for the Google Admin account to override all of these permissions/owners and just move this folder onto the shared drive. All documents are owned by accounts that are in our google domain.

 

I'm sure you can imagine I do not want to do this manually as there is around 800gb of documents.

 

Thanks in advance

[Jaan]

We've just been through this here, you 'll have to make them a "manager" of the shared drive for the to be able to move folders from their my drive to the shared drive location...... then remove that permission as it has other implications (in my opinion).

 

I told them to organise everything that should be in a shared drive into a folder into one folder in their my drive. Then it can be moved in one process...... would be nice if Google added the ability for content managers to move folders!

 

edit: you'll also have to ensure the shared drive allows "non members to access" otherwise it will strip permissions to members only.

 

Hope that helps

Edited October 23, 2023 by Jaan