Complete Guide to Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace | 2024

• User Case: Google Workspace Migrate - Shared Drives
• What is Shared Drive (Team Drive)?
• Why Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace?
• Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace [Traditional]
• Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace [New]
• Conclusion

User Case: Google Workspace Migrate - Shared Drives

What is Shared Drive (Team Drive)?

A Shared Drive (formerly known as Team Drive) in Google Workspace is used to store, search, and view files of a team, group, or company. Files in the Google Workspace Shared Drive belong to the company but not the individual user. These files are retained in the Shared Drive even with employee demission, and the group members of this Shared Drive can continue to share files and collaborate with others anywhere, on any device. If you have Shared Drive, you may get the listed advantages below.

However, if files are stored in the Shared Drive of this Google Workspace account, the ownership of the files actually belongs to the group and company, so there is no need to specifically move the file ownership anymore.

Why Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace?

The Shared Drive in Google Workspace is designed to be a transparent file-sharing service and team collaboration solution for teams, groups, corporations, and companies. In many cases, you need to move files from Shared Drive to Google Workspace, such as:

So, how to move Shared Drive to Google Workspace without manually downloading and uploading? Next, we are going to show you the top solutions for Google Shared Drive to Google Workspace business migration.

Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace [Traditional]

The Shared Drive (Team Drive) in Google Workspace allows you to directly migrate files from Shared Drive to Google Workspace My Drive and Shared Drive on its official website. And this simple method is even more convenient than using the “Shared with me” function since you don’t have to select the account and permission of the shared files but just click “Move to”.

Now please follow the steps below to migrate Shared Drive to My Drive or another Shared Drive of Google Workspace by the “Move to” function on the Google Drive website.

Step 1. Log in to Google Drive with your Google Workspace or G Suite account.

Step 2. Open a Shared Drive and select the files and folders you want to migrate with.

Step 3. Right-click the selected files and choose “Move to” in the dropdown menu.

Step 4. Choose “My Drive” or one of “Shared drives” and click “Move” in the pop-up window. Then wait for a second to let Google Drive transfer Shared Drive to Google Workspace My Drive or another Shared Drive.

Using “Move to” or “Make a copy” to migrate Google Shared Drive to G Suite is so easy but the precondition is that you should have enough level of file access permission of a Shared Drive. If your file access level is not high enough, maybe you can look through the solutions below to use a great and free web-based cloud file manager called MultCloud to migrate data from Shared Drive to Google Workspace securely without any barrier.

Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace [New]

MultCloud is a multiple cloud storage manager which is able to help you manage and migrate data across more than 30 leading cloud drive services (Google Drive, Google Workspace, OneDrive, Dropbox, Flickr, etc.) on a single and easy-to-use interface for free.

MultCloud provides various useful features for you to choose from: Cloud Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, Remote Upload, Sub-accounts Management, etc. With these excellent features, you can easily transfer data between clouds seamlessly without any risk of data loss.

Method 1. Migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace by “Copy to”

Step 1. Sign up MultCloud for free.

Step 2. Click “Add Cloud” and choose Shared Drive to add to MultCloud, then choose Google Workspace to add as well.

Step 3. Open a Shared Drive in MultCloud, and tick the files and folders which you want to migrate from this Shared Drive.

Step 4. Click “Copy to” in the feature bar above, select a user folder of Google Workspace and click “OK”. Then the data will be transferred to Google Workspace at once.

Method 2. Migrate Shared Drive to Another Google Workspace by Cloud Transfer

MultCloud is not only a useful tool to help you migrate Shared Drive to G Suite, but also a great service to help you transfer data among different cloud accounts. With this cloud transfer app, you can easily migrate Shared Drive to another Google Workspace account without complex operations like downloading and uploading, transferring ownership by an admin user, or using “Shared with me”.

Step 1. Enter the “Cloud Transfer” page in MultCloud, select Shared Drive or files and folders in it as the source directory, then select a user folder of another Google Workspace account as the destination directory.

Step 2. Click “Transfer Now” and MultCloud will migrate Shared Drive from one Google Workspace account to another immediately.

Method 3. Migrate Google Shared Drive to Google Workspace by Team Transfer

Step 1. Enter the "Team Transfer" page in MultCloud.

Step 2. Click "Add Source Cloud" and choose the Shared Drive as the source. Then click "Add Target Cloud" and choose the Google Workspace as the destination.

Step 3. Click the "Batch Match" to match the accounts of source and destination. Or you can manually select the source and destination accounts one by one to match them as you want.

Step 4. Now you can click "Transfer Now" to let MultCloud complete the Team Transfer task immediately.

Conclusion

As is shown above, using MultCloud to migrate Shared Drive to Google Workspace may be the best choice since it offers so many fascinating functions to help. If you think MultCloud is worth trying, you can use these methods to migrate Google Workspace to OneDrive and other clouds as well. Besides, you can also use MultCloud to sync or backup data between Shared Drives and other clouds seamlessly with the Cloud Sync and Cloud Backup functions.