What do you usually do when you need a Google Drive to Dropbox migration? This article will introduce 2 solutions without the upload and download steps: the first is a one-time transfer using Google Takeout, and the other is an automatic and periodic transfer using a cloud file transfer tool.
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โบ Case 1: "I want to migrate some important files to my Dropbox account as backups for fear of data loss. But how can I directly make it?"
โบ Case 2: "I register a free Dropbox account and want to transfer my secret files from Google Drive to it and only store files that are related to my work in Google Drive. I don't want to transfer the file through downloading and uploading, is there any way to perform the task?"
Like these users mentioned in the cases, users sometimes need to migrate from Google Drive to Dropbox for different reasons and you might be one of them. But neither Google Drive nor Dropbox allows it to directly transfer to the other clouds.
Under such a circumstance, how to directly realize migration has been a common problem. So is it impossible to move Google Drive to Dropbox without downloading and uploading? This article provides 2 feasible ways to help you transfer all files from Google Drive to Dropbox.
Besides uploading and downloading, there are two more efficient ways to transfer files from Google Drive to Dropbox. One is to use Google Takeout, and the other is to use a third-party cloud file transfer tool --- MultCloud.
If you want to move all your Google Drive data to Dropbox at once, you can use Google Takeout to transfer. To do this, you can follow these steps:
Step 1. Go to Google Takeout, click "Deselect All" and tick the checkbox to the right of "Drive", then click "Next".
Step 2. Select "Add to Dropbox" as the delivery method. Step 3. Scroll down to "Link account and create export" and click it.
Step 4. You will then be asked to access your Dropbox folder, please choose "Allow". After the export process, you can go to Dropbox and view the archive.
This method is more suitable for the one-time transfer of Google Drive data to Dropbox. For example, you can use this method when you need to delete your Google Drive account and switch to Dropbox. If you need to transfer data to Dropbox regularly and uninterruptedly, you can use a multiple cloud storage manager called MultCloud.
As a professional and secure multiple cloud storage management tool, MultCloud supports more than 30 mainstream cloud drives, so you can manage multiple cloud storage accounts in the same interface.
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In addition, MultCloud supports a variety of useful functions such as Cloud Transfer, Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, and Remote Upload. With this tool, cloud-to-cloud transfer, sync, backup can be easily achieved. To automatically transfer data from Google Drive to Dropbox, you need to use the Cloud Transfer feature.
There is a brief instruction to show you how to perform the task in just 3 steps.
You need to sign up first. And, you can also sign into MultCoud directly with your Google, Facebook or Apple ID.
Click on the "Add Cloud" icon and add Google Drive and Dropbox to MultCloud.
Click on the "Cloud Transfer" icon and select Google Drive as the source and Dropbox as the destination. Then click on "Transfer Now" to complete the operation.
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With the above two methods, you can easily realize Google Drive to Dropbox migration. In the process of using MultCloud, you not only can effectively realize cloud to cloud migration but also can realize cloud to cloud sync and backup, remote upload, and even other data-saving operations.