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Move Files From One Google Drive to Another | Google Drive Migrator

INTRODUCTION

As storage space becomes more appealing to users, cloud storage is becoming a progressively attractive backup solution, facilitated you do not mind someone else managing your data. Google Drive gives a 15GB of free storage. It sounds a lot but let’s remember that this space is shared by your files on Google Drive, Google photos and Google mail. So, when you run out of space on one of your Drive accounts, you can move files from one Google rive to another and perform Google drive migration. But, it may be required to make a copy of their OneDrive files or transfer ownership of the files to somebody else.

Most of the users have more than one Google Drive account, but Google has not yet given us an easy method to transfer files from Sone Google Drive to another seamlessly. This can be a difficult procedure, requiring you to log into the departing users OneDrive and downloading, transferring or sharing their data manually. To perform these multiple practices a prominent software is presented named Google Drive Migrator. With the help of this software a user can not only migrate files from one Google Drive to another G Drive, also perform Google drive transfer ownership to another domain in an appropriate manner.

Google Drive Migration Tool

Why We Prefer This Software Over Others to Move Files from One Google Drive to Another

There are various beneficial features provided by this Google drive migrator tool that attract users to purchase this software and use it for easy data migration among Google drives. This application resolves the various problem of users as it has outstanding features. Let’s discuss some of the cases where Google Drive Migration Tool helps users.

1. Transfer Google Drive Storage to Another Account

“I need to transfer my google drive folder from my E drive to my D: drive, but I’m afraid to lose my important information. I simply cannot bear to loose anything in the folder. So, I want to know is there any method which transfer my one Google Drive to another one.”

The Google Drive Migrator software is programmed in such a manner that it export data from Google Drive to another Account/ Domain instantly. The utility transfer all data items like photos, doc files, PDFs, videos, audio files, etc., preserved in Google Drive. After that, in destination drive it stores the exported data with current date of migration. Moreover, it supports the incremental type of migration while exporting Google Drive to precise Account i.e., it does not move already migrated data.

2. Allows Customize Migration Process

“I need to share a folder in team drive to some people outside of the team. They should only be able to view/download the items within the folder. When I try to share the folder, it display as disabled but I can do this with a single file. Is directory sharing not allowed in Team Drives?”

This migrator software facilitates 4 unique options to customize the migration procedure:

  • Migrate Permissions: If a user needs, then he or she can move all given permissions like comment, read and write while migrating Google drive to another drive or Google Drive to new Account.
  • Transfer Deleted Items: This option permits a user to transfer deleted items to precise account. It does not preserve folder hierarchy and migrate all data to a single file.
  • Move Shared Files: With the help of this feature, users can get access to shared data. The utility itself customizes it and store it to an individual folder.
  • Retains Folder Hierarchy: It furnishes an alternative to keep the folder structure intact as original after you transfer Google Drive storage to another account.

3. Enter Source & Destination User ID

After selecting the type of migration within Google Drive Migrator application, one wants to enter the source and destination user ID using the three provided options by the tool:

  • Add User: Offers to add one user (source and destination ID) at a time to move Google Drive to another account.
  • Add CSV: Permits to directly add CSV file including several user IDs at a single time and execute bulk Google Drive to Google Drive migration.
  • Remove User: This option facilitates to delete already added source and destination ID from the utility while migrating Google Drive from one account to another.

4. Able to Migrate G Drive Storage

With the help of this Google Drive to Google Drive migration software, a user can copy Google Drive to another Google Drive in mainly two ways:

Administrator Account: This software provides this option to a user can easily perform Domain to Domain migration. Before that, one required to add source admin ID and destination admin ID and authenticate it first.

Individual User Account: Using this alternate, a user can execute three type of migration i.e., Gmail to Gmail, Domain to Gmail and Gmail to Domain transfer. In this, a user needs to add credentials first for every account and authorize it.

5. Option to Date-based Filter

When a user wants to move files between Google Drive accounts within a specific date range, a user can go for date-based filter option permitted by the Google Drive Migrator tool. The user can specify a date range in the 'To' and 'From' the field, the utility will automatically move only that specified data from one Google Drive to another, which falls under the specified date range.

6. Offers Pause & Resume/Stop Option

Once a user begin the export procedure, the migrator tool will shows up the proceeding progress report on the screen. If a user needs, then he or she can pause and resume the process in between in case of any interruption. A user can also stop the process in between. In this case, only the files that were migrated before tapping stop icon will be moved.

System Specification of Google Drive Migrator

Developer: SysTool Softwares

Processor: 1 GHz processor and recommended 2.4 GHz processor

Ram: Includes 512 MB storage but needs 1 GB

Hard Disk Space: 60 MB

Platform Compatibility: Supports all versions of Windows OS

Advantages of the Software

  • Software generates a complete export report in CSV format for future concerns.
  • It executes incremental migration, in case of data re-migration

Drawbacks of the Utility

  • The Google Drive migrator is only a Windows-based tool and it cannot be installed on the Mac machines.
  • The free demo version of Migrator tool only exports 50 items into another Account.

Summing Up

Summing up pros and cons of Google Drive migrator tool, it is found that this software is a professional and commercial solution to move files from one Google Drive to another. The functionalities stated are very genuine. It gives the satisfactory result in a very short span of time. Thus, I would like to rate this application as 4.8 out of 5.