How to Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace: 2 Fast Ways

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• Can I Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace Easily?
• Why Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace?
• Best Free Google Workspace Drive Migration Tool - MultCloud
• How to Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace in 2 Fast Ways
• Bonus Tip: Migrate Google Workspace to Another Workspace by "Team Transfer"
• Conclusion

Can I Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace Easily?

Last year, Google added many more office applications with great productivity to Workspace, the new name of G Suite, making Google Workspace the most competitive office suite compared with Microsoft 365.

As the core application of Google Workspace, Google Drive is also famous for its large storage space and great sharing functions. However, Google Drive is more suitable for personal use. 

If you are an enterprise user or a user from school, you may wonder if there's any chance for you to migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace and then use Google Workspace conveniently. Well, this article will tell you in detail about how to migrate files from Google Drive to Google Workspace easily for free.

Why Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace?

If you are not clear about the differences between personal Google Drive and Google Workspace (G Suite), here is a table about the difference between Google Workspace and Google Drive to give you some help. 

	Google Drive	Google Workspace
Free account	15 GB	No
Price starts from	$1.99/month with 100 GB	$6 per user/month with 30 GB
Authentication	No	Yes
Google Calendar	No	Yes
Content Library	Yes	Yes
Full-text search	Yes	Yes
Live chat	No	Yes
Multi-channel communication	No	Yes
Task management and schedule	No	Yes
Third-party integrations	No	Yes
To-do list	No	Yes
Version control	Yes	Yes
Video conferencing	No	Yes
Gmail	Yes	Yes
Asana	Yes	Yes
Zapier	Yes	Yes
Slack	Yes	Yes
Trello	Yes	Yes

From the comparison between personal Google Drive and Google Workspace, we can find that Google Drive offers more free storage space and pays much attention to the security of cloud files. 

However, Google Workspace is excellent at online collaboration due to the ability of multi-channel communication. The Shared Drive (Team Drive) of Google Workspace is even more convenient than the "Shared with me" folder of personal Google Drive when it comes to working with your team online under different file access controls.

Therefore, once you migrate folders from personal Google Drive to  Suite, you and your cooperation can work together easily and efficiently without limits of time and place.

Best Free Google Workspace Drive Migration Tool - MultCloud

The traditional method for migrating Google Drive to G Suite, which you might think of, requires you to manually download files from personal Google Drive and then upload files to Shared Google Drive account all by yourself. As you can imagine, this method is pretty much a waste of time and energy which depends a lot on the speed of your network and the size of your data.

Then you might think using the "Shared with me" function of Google Drive can also help you migrate data from Google Drive to G Suite. In fact, because of the limited permissions of shared files, you are not able to straightly move the shared files from the Shared with me folder to the My Drive or Shared Drive folders of your Google Workspace account.

So, how to move Google Drive to Google Workspace while saving your time and protecting your data well? You can ask for some reliable third-party tools' help. As an excellent web-based multiple cloud storage manager, MultCloud is one of the best tools designed to help you manage and migrate data between clouds easily without concern.

Why choose MultCloud as your best free Google Workspace data migration tool, check the following:

How to Migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace in 2 Fast Ways

To migrate from Google Drive to G Google Workspace in time-saving ways, we recommend you use the "Cloud Transfer" and "Copy to". 

Now please choose one of these methods you like and follow the guide on migrating from Google Drive to Google Suite carefully.

Method 1. Migrate Google Drive to G Suite via Cloud Transfer

Step 1. Sign up for MultCloud for free.

Step 2. Click "Add Cloud", and choose Google Drive and Google Workspace to add them to MultCloud respectively.

Step 3. Switch to the "Cloud Transfer" page, select your Google Drive files as the source directory, and then select a directory in Google Workspace as the destination.

Step 4. (Optional) Set up "Options" and "Schedule" if your Cloud Transfer Task needs.

• Email in Options: MultCloud can send an email notification to you when the task is completed.
• Filter in Options: MultCloud can ignore or only migrate files with certain file extensions. (Please upgrade your MultCloud account to enjoy.)

Tip: MultCloud offers free, monthly, yearly, and lifetime plans for you to choose from. And the data traffic limit starts from 5 GB per month for free to unlimited data traffic for a lifetime. If you are an enterprise user or have a large demand for transferring data through clouds, we suggest you upgrade to a premium plan and get enough data traffic with lightning-fast transfer speed.

Step 5. Click "Transfer Now" and MultCloud will migrate data from personal Google Drive to Google Workspace as soon as possible.

Method 2. Migrate Personal Google Drive to Workspace by "Copy to"

Step 1. Open your personal Google Drive account in MultCloud, and tick the files and folders you'd like to migrate from Google Drive.

Step 2. Click "Copy to" in the feature bar above, and choose a folder in Google Workspace as the target.

Step 3. Click "OK" in the pop-up window to move Google Drive to Workspace. You can find the migrated files in Google Workspace after completed.

Bonus Tip: Migrate Google Workspace to Another Workspace by "Team Transfer"

Apart from using the "Cloud Transfer" or "Copy to" functions to migrate files from personal Google Drive to Google Workspace, MultCloud also provides you with the best way to migrate data between Google Workspace accounts by using the "Team Transfer" function.

Team Transfer is specially designed to complete one-key business account migration between domains or clouds with the intelligent ability to auto-match the corresponding user accounts.

Check the following steps if you'd like to migrate Google Workspace to another Workspace directly:

1. Click Team Transfer from the left side, then hit Add Source Cloud to choose one Google Workspace, and hit Add Target Cloud to choose another Workspace account.

2. It will automatically pair all the sub-accounts under the two Workspace accounts, or you can hit Batch Match, and choose one of the 3 modes to pair: Auto-Match, Upload CSV, or Download CSV.

3. Press the Transfer Now button to directly migrate Google Workspace data to another Workspace account.

Conclusion

Before reading this article, you may think it's impossible to migrate Google Drive to Google Workspace or G Suite in a convenient way. But now, you can choose the best method you like to migrate personal Google Drive account to G Suite efficiently for free.

Besides cloud-to-cloud migration, MultCloud also supports sharing documents on Google Drive and other clouds directly in MultCloud with Public Share, Private Share, and Source Share.