
If needed, redistribute the files among several users or increase the user’s storage limit.
Review the new owner's storage use and make sure they have enough. Even when their Drive data isn't on hold, if their data is held for another service, such as Gmail, data transfer is not allowed. Ensure the current user is not on litigation hold for any Google Workspace service. Learn how to move existing content to a shared drive. If a user leaves or is deleted, other members can still access the files. All files in a shared drive are owned collectively by your organization. Consider moving the files to a shared drive instead. Whether you're changing the owner of one file or many files, start with the following steps: You can’t transfer ownership of Google Maps files. Also, it must be reshared with collaborators, unless it's a file created in Drive and copied from the File menu. As a workaround for individual files, the external user can make a copy of a file shared with them. You can't transfer ownership to an external user. The new owner must be in your organization. Transferring files does not affect who has access to the files. That way, you can save their files before deleting their account. For example, if someone leaves your company, you can transfer the files they own to someone else. The transfer will now take place in the background, and could take from several minutes to several days, depending upon factors such as the size of your mailbox and the load on Google's servers.To transfer ownership of a file you own, go here instead.Īs an administrator, you can change a file's owner in Google Drive if the current owner and the proposed owner are in your organization. Make your choice and click Start Transfer. You'll now see a summary screen showing the source and destination accounts and letting you specify whether you want to tranfer Drive contents, mail contents, or both. Move back to the window showing your Amherst GMail and enter or paste the code into the Enter code field and click the Verify button. Move to the browser window that is open to your personal GMail account and open the Verify your account message you just received.
Enter the address of the GMail account where you'll be sending your mail and Drive files and then click Send Code.In the Transfer your content section, click Start transfer.In your Amherst GMail account, click on your initial in the upper-right and then click Manage your Google Account.
In another browser, or in an incognito or private browsing window of your primary browser, sign in to your personal GMail account.Next, in your primary browser, sign in to your Amherst Gmail account.
To ensure that GMail knows which accounts you are working with, sign out of all GMail accounts on the computer you are using.