How to Transfer An ENTIRE Google Drive 

Thanks for all you do. You have definitely had a crazy year. I hope you take time this summer to do what makes you happy. You have saved so many educators and non-educators with your videos. You put in so much time helping others, learning more tech strategies, and everything else that we don't see behind the scenes. Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

Happy End of the school year!!!! Michelle thank you sooo much for all the help you have given us educators who needed a little extra help! You are an AWESOME teacher! I have learned soooo much from your videos. We appreciate you! 📚 👩🏻‍🏫

From the “account” page of your Google settings, you can transfer an entire account’s drive and Gmail to another. This might depend on organization settings and on your personal needs, but works well!

I absolutely love this video. I was in this situation two years ago when I switched districts. You can also make a Shared Drive and drag the files in there to another Drive to avoid making copies. Thank you for sharing!

Oh MY YES!! THIS IS EXACTLY what i was wondering about and NEEDING!! I work SO hard to make material and it is in my current drive, but I need to transfer it. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Love you

Thank you. This is so helpful! It also explains some problems I’ve had this year. I took over certain responsibilities from a retiring colleague. Last summer, she shared several necessary documents and folders with me, then deleted all her files. When I tried to open them during the school year, I couldn’t access them. Now I understand why.

I have been putting this off for MONTHS! Thank you so much for an easy and to-the-point tutorial.

This video came just in time!! I started the transfer but this will help me make it faster and easier. Thank you for this!!

This is a life-saver! It's like things that we knew but needed to be placed in one place. I appreciate it and so do my co-workers leaving the school district lol.

I wish more people who made tutorials followed your formatting. Fantastic walkthrough, explanation, and examples. 👍

OMG as a second year teacher and already overwhelmed, this was super helpful. Thank you!

Thank you!!! You read my mind! I’m moving and needed this video!! Perfect timing ⏱❤️👍🏼

This is so good! I love your tech tips! My dad would be smiling right now if he we still working!! Google pay attention! Make it easier for teachers to transfer folders!

Your video helped me transfer my files with ease!! A project I have been putting off for some time, but once I watched your video, it was easy to accomplish. Thanks so much!

I just realized, I have been watching your channel for years, and around the same time I found you,, I had the idea to become a teacher. Now with that thought being in my head for years, I want to become specifically a 4th grade teacher. Without realizing, you have become a huge part in deciding what I want to do when I get older.

YOU JUST READ MY MIND!!!!! I needed this!

PERFECT timing with this! My husband (PK-3 Principal) is moving to a new district in July (Pk-6! New adventures!) and was wondering the best way to transfer all of his files. Thanks as always

First time I'm this early for a vlog!! Thank you for being such an inspiration and incredible person.🌻🌼

Great video! I actually did this last summer and your video would have been perfect. I have many files set to Google formatting (sheets etc) and didn't want to see that messed up by just downloading. I wasn't changing districts. I just wanted more control over my work. Once completed, I shared the main folder back to my school account.

This was SOOO helpful Michelle! Thank you!

Thank you so much Michelle! I always learn so much from you! 😍

Michel, you are great at sharing your videos. Absolute fantastic didactics. Thx so much!

OMG, I really appreciate your help with this.

Thank you for this I really needed to do it but I had no idea how to do it so thank you for explaining it step by step

Brilliant as always! Thank you for the help 😀

Thanks for explaining it so very clearly. It is much appreciated.

You are the best!!!!...I can’t stop learning from you!!!

Just wanted to say that you are a LIFESAVER!!!! Thank you!!!

This was so so helpful!! Thank you so much!!

Super clear and thorough! Thanks a lot!

This was amazing, thank you so much. really clear and simple.

Helpful. Will listen/watch again for step-by-step instructions.

Nice to get information which is practical and useful to us!

I swear I watch hours & hours of your videos !!! I love you

This is incredibly helpful and helped put my mind at ease. One anxiety I have remaining is that my lesson plans include many hyperlinks to other materials on Drive, that once that are copied into a new drive will no longer activate (I am assuming my account will be deactivated if I leave my place of employment). Another thought I had is that my personal/free Google account does not have the storage required and I will need to upgrade it!

I wish this had been out at the end of May. God bless you. Thank you ever so much.

Michelle thank you for making this video because I am a student and I want to transfer my school work

Super helpful! I am moving to a new district next year!

This is so helpful! I am moving to a new district so I will make sure I have copies of all my stuff before I lose my school email

I cant thank you enough for this video. I was racking my brain because l had moved single files at a time, previously , mind you not remembering how l had did it. Now that I needed to move a hand full to a dozen it wasn't as easy. thnx again 5 thumbs up!!!

OMG THANKS SO MUCH😭! I'm moving to a new district.

You are a GREAT teacher!

Congratulations on the move and your new house!

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Thank you for this! 🎉

You are awesome! Thanks for being such a good teacher 😊

Super helpful video!! Thank you!

ThNk you sssooo much!!!! I’m moving districts and was wondering how I was going to do this!!!

This is awesome info thank you so much! I am VA and I am helping someone rebrand so they had to switch their google drive. What would you suggest for old emails they want to keep?

Thank you!! I just got a new phone so this video came in handy!!

Perfect timing!

Amazing - Thanks for the amazing value!

Most helpful video. Thank you so much.😃

So helpful.....as always!

This is great. In my case, the administration did not let us move our folders due to security.

Thanks!! This was so good

Thanks so much! This was very helpful :-)

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Thank you so much you made my life a lot easier.

Thanks a lot Emerson for making this great Content👏👏👍

Terrific information!

Super helpful! Thank you

very helpful, thank you!

Very Helpful

Thank you for this! I'm moving districts too, and have been frantically moving files! Once my drive from my former district is erased, will all the files that I'd shared to myself (not the copies...I shared files before I understood I need to copy) disappear from my new drive? Or do I delete them one by one. If they would just delete, I'd love it - less to clean up!

YES!!! you solved my problems thank you

Loved this one. Do you also have a video on how to move from Gmail to Google Workspace Mail?

Hi, you can copy the complete folder if you have Google Drive of both accounts sync to your computer! That's what I personally did and it worked 😉

Tsym this is a life-saver

This is Awesome!!

Thank you for this video! How long do you think that would take to transfer 1 TB between drives?

I'm here to learn about transferring files, but I also want to know where you got your glasses/frames. They look so good.

That is my first time hearing the new name (I have been in pandemic survival mode for quite a while now so I have been away). Congratulations!

Love your smile!

wow blessss i’ve been transferring my student teaching stuff bc i got a job in a different district but this is definitely easier! lol

THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏🏼

Fantastic tutorial.

You are the best!

Hello and thank you for your videos! I follow your channel and tune in to new videos. :) When you are transferring the current drive (Drive 1) to your personal drive (Drive 2), do you change the general access from "restricted to anyone with the link". I'm not sure and from your video, it looks like, no changes were made to general access. As as I'm stuck on the this step, please could you help and thanks in advance.

You are awesome! Thank you for all you do....if our professional development ($$$$) was spent on trainings like you give, I think I may be far less stressed! Thank you tons and loads!

Thanks for this video Michelle - Is the concept similar with Google Docs? I have hundreds of documents I'd like to move to a new email account.

I know this video is 2 years old but this is a lifesaver! Just to be clear, will the folders also still be on the original Google Drive? I'm trying to transfer a copy to share with iCloud. Once my current folders from Drive are on iCloud, is there a way to turn on iCloud to sync things back to Google Drive if need be? Thanks for your help!

Hi ! Thanks for the video. Do you know about transferring from Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive ? Thanks !

I really need this. I need to transfer some things over to my other account. Plus, my students have been sharing so many files with me and it's just making a mess in my drive. :)

If I followed you correctly, the new files are ones with "Copy of". So, do they need to be renamed to remove the "copy of"? Then the original files that were transferred would be deleted - Yes?

This is an excellent video. Thank you so much! One follow up question for once this process has been completed. If a file was shared via a link created on the OLD drive..what happens when end users click on that link? Will the system automatically know to redirect the end user to the version of the file that resides on the NEW drive? Or do I have to comb through all of the links that were shared on the OLD drive and update those links to be associated with the files on the NEW drive? Sorry for being so wordy, I hope that this question makes sense. Thank you!

omg thank you!

THANK YOU!!!!!

This is so helpful. I followed your instructions but I get a message that says ownership cannot be transferred. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same organization as the current owner. Can you explain and tell me how I get around this. Thanks

OMG, that was so easy! Thanks for taking the overwhelm out of transferring E V E R Y THING to my new email address :)

So helpful! Thank you - 2 years later still making a difference, lol.

This was really helpful tysm, in the future can you do one for Google Doc

I was so excited when I saw this title thinking you knew something I didn't (I am pretty Google savvy). And it does not transfer this easy. I have all these shared docs or docs attached to Google Classroom etc, and I have TONS of files from teaching and this is a nightmare. I do not have time to make all those copies and it gives me a headache going back and forth to match up folders etc. Of course both schools I've tried to move files from now have not given me permission to transfer ownership and they even locked me out for periods of time for transferring too many. Because I worked with other teachers and we had shared docs and folders, and if even one of those was in a folder I tried to share, it wouldn't let me so I had to share files one by one individually and then it started asking me "are you sure you want to share" which was an extra clicks each time and then it locked me out altogether! I was really hoping you knew another way! But thanks for all of your help with other tips I picked up like Nearpod etc.

I tried this, but when I share the folder to my new email address and later go back in to the old address and right click to make the new address the owner, I receive the error message: "Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to (new email addy). Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same organization as the current owner." Further more... there is no option to do it your second way advised here, as when I right cick on the folder to be shared.... there is no option for "Make a copy". I have "Share, Get link, Show the location, add short cut to drive, move to, add to starred, rename, change color, " however no option to make a copy. Any guidance much appreciated. TIA

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Would you know how to download multiple folders that are "shared with me"? Seems like your method could work. Thanks

So I create designs for shirts, cups etc. I want to start selling the Google access for customers to pay as membership lifetime access with new designs added every day. Should I make a whole new Google account for that so they don’t see anything personal ? Also how do I keep from someone accidentally deleting images from it

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Very interesting Mrs. Emerson

so i have to make copy of files in current drive and then delete the main files, i couldn't understand wht you said? my issue is my one drive is full and i wnt to transfer some files to nother account and delete around 5 gb data from current drive so that the drive gets freed up...

I really wish we could copy folders, it would make things so much easier!