How to Copy A Google Drive Folder (Easy Work-Around) 

Truly the best workaround I have yet to see. Can't believe this was 2017. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE @GOOGLE?

Thank you for the explaination on settings Option!!!

Thank you. Saved me tons of minutes..

Thanks man your method is working with my 3TB folder on google drive

Watching this in 2021 and still working, thanks!

NATE YOU JUST VASTLY IMPROVED MY LIFE THANK YOU Why does Google hide this setting? I've spent so much time sifting through their own documentation.

Fantastic,! Thank you SO much!! Your students are so lucky to have you!

The convert uploads feature you mentioned saved me from having to go in and individually convert like 150 documents from Word to Google Docs so THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You make my task much easier. What I have learned from you is converting uploaded files to Google Docs editor format and it saves me a lot of time.

This is simply fantastic! Thanks for saving my life...it was so cumbersome copying, renaming and uploading files! Google should have the option of copying the files/folders in one go.

thanks so much !!! very helpful

I had an entire drive to reorganize into standardized folders. You saved me hours, thank you. Just a note: sometimes small glitches happen when you drag the files from the desktop into the drive. You may see an _ where there should be none or an / changed to a -. Just briefly check naming conventions to make sure all is ell.

Thank you, I was moving school and I wanted to keep my files and works thank you again it was helpful.

This is amazing.

Thank you so much. This is perfect for folders with template files. Just what I need.

At least I am sure that THIS is the only way to "copy" a file shared with me. I like your method. Easy and fast. Thanks!

Thanks - really helpful. What if the folder is a shared one? Can you still follow this process without taking the shared individuals with you?

That was so easy and worked really well, why all the thumbs down? Thank you!

Thank you so much!

This is super useful. Thank you sooooo much. It worked beautifully.

Great 1

Thank you so much. It was very helpful.

Not to be a jerk, but that's not copying a folder. That's downloading and reuploading. Great - if you're on a high speed LAN, or it's a small file size. If you're copying video edit files that can include GB+ data over the WAN, then that's not really viable.

i wonder how many google employees have had to watch this video to figure out how to accomplish this most basic function lol

Hi @TechTeacherNate, I'm glad you posted this video here, i talked to a developer in the Google Play department yestoday which is also a developer on the Google Drive. We have been working together on the Google Drive yestoday. If you select multiple folders with shift/command or just select one folder you can hold down alt and then drag the folder into the other folder. That creates a copy of the folder and connects the data from the main folder to the copied folder, which is a new thing. In the old days it just copied the folder. :-) I hope this helped out your problem. / Miguel

When I upload my folder, it zips all my files and the converter doesn't convert them back to their original format (in my case Google Forms). Any ideas?

Thanks so much! We're on 2022, Google still didn't have any official solution?

OMG, you are genius.

Thank you so much! I am setting up lesson plan folders for the year for my team and was pulling my hair out thinking I was going to have to create 36 separate folders.

Very helpful. Thanks!

thanks, it worked with my 50tb teamdrive folder, now i can happily kms.

Thanks Nate. Very helpful.

Thanks it worked. I just tried to Share the files( Empty folders right now) to a co-worker and All the files did not come over. Does anyone know why?

my jamboards are still uploading as PDF's is there a work around for that??

Thanks

Amazing!

You're a bloody legend mate!

cool

LOOOOOOOOL!!!

What if the file you downloading is bigger then 10gb??

But what if I have so large data that I just want to COPY or fork ?

Super helpful, thank you so much

If the folder size is larger then it will not a good idea.

That wouldn't work at all for very large folders. Downloading several hundred GB as zip will time out long before it completes. Some batch scripts work for files up to 1000 or so files, but still have not found one that will perfectly copy all files in a very large folder with over 1 TB of data.

It is uploading documents as PDFs not sheets or docs...How do I correct that? I already "Checked" the box and still not working? Also, It is not copying all of the folders. There isn't anything in them so it isn't too large.

Brilliant work around - got me out of a spot. Thanks!

it not effective on google sheet wich is contains formulas on it... there any ideas guys..?

Thank you so much! Wow, this google drive functionality sucks.

Thanks. Got the job done for what I need without me having to give away accessibility permissions to some sketchy app developer. Not sure why all of these a-hole comments from other people. It's something Google needs to address so they should be firing those message at Google.

Helped me... thank you!

Can u tell me how to save files from Google to Google drive on Android mobile

very helpful - thanks

use rclone, done in 2 seconds

very helpful

Lol. This is a workaround, seriously😂

Ther is a script which saves you the effort of syncing and reuploading. It is done in minutes and even gives you a log with all the subfolders www.labnol.org/internet/copy-folders-google-drive/29138/ github.com/ericyd/gdrive-copy

dropbox copies a folder easily

wow... who'd have thought that one could download and upload a file? -__-

Ааххааххахаха, спасибо

fuck that isnt workaround, workaround would be to do that withoyt doenload and uppaod

Me stealing my freinds work😂😂

Very helpful. Thank you!