How do you move files from Dropbox to Google Drive quickly and easily? This post provides you with 2 easiest ways and 2 common ways, so you can choose one way to perform file migration according to your needs.
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In recent years, cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, FTP, MEGA, and Amazon S3 have become more and more popular, helping users store various data and files. Cloud drives save data online, so you can access data on any computer from anywhere as long as you're connected to the internet.
Dropbox and Google Drive are excellent cloud drives, and most users have multiple accounts. Since Google Drive has obvious advantages over Dropbox, such as advanced search, more ways to control visibility, and cheaper prices, there are many users on Quora looking for a solution to move Dropbox files to Google Drive. So, is there any way to achieve this?
This article will introduce 4 effective ways to transfer data from Dropbox to Google Drive easily and quickly. The first two methods are provided by MultCloud --- a cloud file manager. And, the latter two methods are download & upload and drag & drop, which are commonly used by many users.
MultCloud is a free web-based cloud transfer tool that supports adding more than 30 kinds of clouds, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, etc. MultCloud also provides Cloud Transfer, Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, Image Saver, and Remote Upload functions.
As a result, you can access data on different clouds on the same interface, and seamlessly transfer, sync, or backup data between clouds. In the process of transferring data, you can directly close the browser or computer, because MultCloud supports smooth file transfer in the background. That's not all. MultCloud also allows users to customize transfer times to automatically move data from one cloud to another.
Let's transfer Dropbox to Google Drive without downloading in only 3 steps:
Create an account on MultCloud. MultCloud also supports logging in directly with your Google or Facebook, so you can also choose this way.
Click the "Add Cloud" icon and add Dropbox and Google Drive to MultCloud respectively.
Note: If you have other cloud drives supported by MultCloud, you can add them all to MultCloud to manage multiple cloud storage accounts more easily.
MultCloud provides 2 methods to move files from Dropbox to Google Drive, you can choose one according to your specific situation.
If you want to directly transfer the entire storage or multiple folders to Google Drive, you can click "Cloud Transfer" and select Dropbox or the folder you want to move as the source and Google Drive as the destination. Then click "Transfer Now" to complete the task.
Notes:
If you just want to transfer some files instead of the entire cloud drive or folder, you can use "Copy to" to achieve your needs. You need to open Dropbox and select the files you want to migrate. Then right-click "Copy to" and select Google Drive as the destination, and finally click "OK" to move the file to Google Drive.
Note: If you want to transfer data from your Dropbox account to multiple cloud storage accounts, you can select the "Multi-select" button in the lower-left corner of the window.
For users, download-and-upload or drag-and-drop is a way to achieve migration, but this way is not simple and requires manual operations.
This method requires you to first download the required files from Dropbox to your PC or smartphone. After this, you should re-add them to your Google Drive account by uploading them.
When you need to transfer a small number of files to Google Drive, the upload and download method also works. We've included a few helpful steps below to help you achieve this easily.
Sign in to your Dropbox account. Once in, click "All files". Here you can select all the files you want to move to Google Drive. After making your selection, click the "Download" icon to move the file to your local device (PC or smartphone).
Sign in to your Google Drive account. Click the "+ New" icon to create a folder where you can place the files you want to upload.
Open the file or folder you downloaded to your computer (Before uploading, you need to unzip the file.). Drag the files you want to upload to the new folder in your Google Drive account.
Another way is to open your newly created folder window. Then click the "+ New" icon in Google Drive. Finally, click the "File upload" button to select the downloaded file to upload.
If you often use desktop Dropbox and Google Drive applications, you can use the drag-and-drop method to migrate data. The specific steps are as follows:
Make sure that you have installed Dropbox and Google Drive applications on your device and synchronize all data locally.
Open Dropbox and Google Drive respectively, and then find the data to be migrated.
Directly drag the files in Dropbox to the path in Google Drive. After that, the files will be automatically copied to the corresponding location.
You have successfully transferred files from Dropbox to Google Drive. As you can see, the process is straightforward. The only challenge with this transfer process is transferring large files as internet connection and file size can affect the speed of the process.
How to transfer files from Dropbox to Google Drive without downloading? MultCloud supports 2 easy ways, you can choose one according to your preference. As mentioned earlier, MultCloud also supports Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, Imager Saver, and Remote Upload.
If you don't have a lot of data to move, upload-and-download and drag-and-drop can also help you move files from Dropbox to Google Drive directly. It just requires you to spend more time and effort to do it manually.