How to transfer google drive documents to another account

Copy & transfer your files

Each time you copy files from your school account, a new set of copies is created in your Google Account.

Create an account

If you haven't already, create a Google Account. Your new email address will be your .

Prepare your files

To copy content that other people have shared with you, add those files to My Drive.

Start the copy process

1. On your school account, go to Transfer your content.
2. Enter the email address of the Google Account where you want to copy your content.
3. Select Get code.
4. On your Google Account, check your Gmail inbox for a confirmation email from Google. In the email, select Get confirmation code. A new tab will open with a code.
5. On your school account, go back to the "Transfer your content" page. Enter the code, then choose Verify.
6. Choose the content you'd like to copy, then select Start transfer.

Details about the copy process

• The copy process usually happens within a few hours, but it can take up to a week.
• Copied files might appear in batches on your Google Account during the copy process.
• When your files are finished copying, you'll get an email at your Gmail address.

User case

“I have some files in a school Google Drive account that I want to transfer to my personal Google Drive, there must be an easy way to transfer Google Drive to another account but I have no idea. Can you give me some suggestions? Thanks in advance.”

Nowadays, storing the files in the cloud becomes a common phenomenon and Google Drive is one of the popular clouds with massive users. It has many advanced features favored by users and provides every user with 15 GB of free storage space. Sometimes, people need to transfer Google Drive files to another account when they possess multiple Google Drive accounts.

Why transfer Google Drive files to another account?

There could be various reasons behind transferring Google Drive files from one account to another, such as:

• Your current account is not working properly.

• You’re using a public account and there isn’t enough space available.

• You want to move files to another account for personal or professional use.

• You have some essential documents in a shared account and want to move them to a personal account.

These are the most common reasons to transfer files from one Google Drive account to another. Now, let’s see how to transfer google drive to another account.

4 ways to transfer Google Drive files to another account

How to move google drive to another account easily? Don’t worry, there are 4 ways to transfer Google Drive files to another account. The first way is a new way to rely on a professional cloud transfer web services. The last three ways are common ways to transfer files by using features that come with Google Drive or traditional downloading and uploading.

Way 1. Transfer Google Drive to another account with CBackup (recommend)

CBackup is a free online cloud service that allows you to transfer files between multiple accounts or different clouds and manage all the cloud storage accounts that you have. With it, you can not only transfer files from one Google Drive to another quickly and easily in one interface but also transfer Google Drive to OneDrive, Dropbox and other cloud drives.

What’s more, the authorization system of this service is based on OAuth which enables third-party applications to access cloud accounts without username and password and ensures your account’s security. So, you can follow the step-by-step tutorial below to transfer Google Drive files to another account safely.

Step 1. Go to CBackup website, create a CBackup account. Then log in to your newly created CBackup account.

Step 2. Click My Storage > Add Clouds, select Google Drive and click Add, then sign in to your Google Drive account, and allow CBackup to access your Google Drive files, and modify the settings for the Google Drive on CBackup. Repeat the process to add another Google Drive account.

Step 3. Click on the Sync tab on the left, and click the New Task button to create Google Drive transfer task.

Step 4. Name your Task Name, select one of your Google Drive account as the transfer source. Similarly,  choose another Google Drive account as the transfer destination. Then, click Start Sync transfer Google Drive to another account easily and directly.

Besides, the CBackup desktop app also provides features to perform PC cloud backup, and you could backup computer files to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and CBackup Cloud, etc.

CBackup alows you to combine multiple Google Drive storage space into a huge free cloud storage if you encounter your Google Drive storage space full error.

And CBackup offers you 50GB free data traffic for data sync or backup, and more cloud storage of CBackup Cloud to safeguard your data.

Way 2. Migrate Google Drive to another account using “Share” feature of Google Drive

Using “Share” feature of Google Drive is also an effective way to transfer files from one Google Drive to another. The proper instructions are given below:

Step 1. Log in your old Google Drive account. Select all files and right-click “Share” button.

Step 2. Invite your another Google Drive account as the receiver. Click on “Advanced”. Under “Sharing settings”, change the permission to “Is owner” and click the “Send” button to wait for the process to complete.

Step 3. Log in your another Google Drive account, and you will find these files under “My Drive”. 

Now you have transferred Google Drive files to another account with a success.

Way 3. Transfer Google Drive to another account by downloading and uploading

The method of downloading and uploading is the process of saving the files and folder to your computer and then uploading it to the new account. If you have fewer files, you can use this method. But if the data size is large, the process will be very time consuming and troublesome. The step by step process is explained below:

Step 1. Log in your old Google Drive account.

Step 2. Create a new folder to store all files under the root directory of your Google Drive. Collect all the files and put them in a new folder.

Step 3. Right-click the new folder, click “Download” button and wait for the process to complete.

✎ Tip: The Google server will compress all the files into a single zip file. When the download is finished, you can unzip the file and extract all your files from the single zip file.

Step 4. Open your another Google Drive account in which you want to keep those files. When the home page opens up, click on the “+” icon and upload files and folder to your other Google Drive account.

Way 4. Transfer Google Drive to another account using Google Takeout

If you want to transfer your entire “My Drive” to another account, then Google Takeout is a good option.

Step 1. Log in to Google Takeout. Under “Create a new archive”, click on the box against the option “Drive” and click on “Next Step”.

Step 2. In the next window, you can customize your archive format by selecting the “Delivery Method” and the “File Type” and click on “Create Archive”.

Step 3. A progress bar will display the status of your download. Once the archive is finished, the download link will be sent via email and you can download it as a zip archive.

Step 4. Once you download the archived file, you can upload it to the user account to which you wanted to transfer these files.

Bonus tip: Backup your Google Drive to another account

Besides transferring data by synchronizing Google Drive to another account, cloud to cloud backup can help you better protect the data in your Google Drive account. This feature is available in both CBackup desktop application and web application, you can try to use CBackup client to backup one Google Drive account to another.

Step 1. Download the CBackup desktop app on your PC. Create a CBackup account. Then log in to your newly created CBackup account.

Step 2. Click My Storage, select Google Drive and click Authorize, then sign in to your Google Drive account, and allow CBackup to access your Google Drive files, and modify the settings for the Google Drive on CBackup. Repeat the process to add another Google Drive account.

Step 3. Click on the Backup tab on the left, then, click the Backup Public Cloud to Public Cloud button to create Google Drive transfer task.

Step 4. Name your Task Name, choose one Google Drive account as the backup source. Similarly, select another Google Drive account as the destination. Then, click Start Backup in the lower right corner to transfer Google Drive to another account easily and directly.

✎Tip: You can choose to backup the entire cloud or just some of the files or folders on the source cloud.

Final words

Following any way above could help you transfer Google Drive to another account, you can choose the way according to your requirements. Actually, compared with the first way, the process of the last three ways is relatively complicated and time-consuming. So, you are recommended to use free CBackup to do cloud to cloud syn or backup.

And besides transferring files between clouds, CBackup can also help you combine your clouds like OneDrive, Dropbox as well as FTP/SFTP into one to expand storage space. And then, you can manage several clouds on one platform without switching accounts.