You will find 4 free ways to help you sync data from Google Drive to OneDrive and you could choose one to perform Google Drive and OneDrive sync or migration based on your preference.
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Using cloud storage as a backup way is more and more popular now. Most cloud services provide the version of desktop and mobile phones for you so that you can access these storage files whenever and wherever. It is commonly seen that one person owns multiple cloud drives in order to get maximum free storage.
Google Drive and OneDrive are two of the most famous and powerful cloud services that are widely used worldwide. Google Drive offers users 15 GB of free storage and upgrade options while charging a monthly fee.
OneDrive, integrated tightly with Microsoft Office, offers 5 GB of storage space free of charge. You could purchase additional storage separately or through subscriptions to other Microsoft services such as Office 365.
It is safe to say that having several clouds means you spend more time managing them. In this situation, synchronization is a good solution to integrate multiple clouds so that you can use both OneDrive and Google Drive. So, is there any way to sync OneDrive with Google Drive for free? Yes! The following part will introduce three ways to help you.
To sync Google Drive to OneDrive effectively, you can take advantage of the "Cloud Sync" feature of MultCloud, a Google Drive to OneDrive migration tool, which has prominent advantages as below compared with the basic ways for Google Drive OneDrive sync.
Step 1. Create one MultCloud account. and log in to MultCloud.
Step 2. Click the "Add Cloud" button to choose Google Drive to add. Then add OneDrive in the same process.
Step 3. Achieve Google Drive OneDrive Sync with the "Cloud Sync" Task. Click on the "Cloud Sync" icon and select Google Drive as the source and OneDrive as the destination.
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Step 4. Then click on "Sync Now" to sync from Google Drive to OneDrive.
What's more, once you have created a sync task, you can also commit it or re-edit, delete, view logs, etc. from the Task List. And you're also able to sync OneDrive to Google Drive in this way, just exchange the source and destination cloud to make it true.
To make all the sync modes clear to you, we will explain them in more detail.
If you just want to use Normal Sync, try these normal sync modes to sync OneDrive and Google Drive flexibly:
Besides "Normal Sync", the MultCloud also provides you with "Real Time Sync", which is able to perform an automatic sync whenever any changes are detected in either of the clouds.
If you want to keep the same files up to date on OneDrive and Google Drive, use two-way sync to perform two-way sync OneDrive and Google Drive. To know more details about the differences between sync modes, click to generate the important information.
You might want to try some traditional ways to sync Google Drive and OneDrive.
This is a traditional way to sync one cloud to another. To backup Google Drive to OneDrive, you can also use this method.
Step 1. Log in to your Google Drive account. Step 2. Select all the files and click on the "Download" button to download them to your local storage.
Step 3. Login to OneDrive account. Step 4. Click on the "Upload" button to add all the downloaded files to OneDrive.
But before operating with this method, there are some potential problems that you have to pay attention to.
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Google Takeout is also called "Download your data" which allows you to export your data from Google Photos, Google Keep, YouTube, Google Drive, etc., to an archive file, so that you can transfer data to local PC, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box. Now, you can use this method to sync Google Drive and OneDrive.
Step 1. Move to the website of Google Takeout and log in. Step 2. Select Drive to export and click on the "Next step" icon to continue.
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Step 3. Select the "Add to OneDrive" option as the delivery method, click on the "Link account and create export" icon, and accept the permissions that Google Takeout sends to you.
Step 4. Sign in to your OneDrive account and move to the "Files" interface and you can see the exported data from Google Photos in the "Google Download Your Data" folder.
Limitation: Solution 2 can help you avoid downloading and uploading but it requires a high-speed and uninterrupted network or the process needs to be re-started once the Internet is interrupted.
If you have installed the OneDrive desktop app and Google Drive for desktop app, you can sync all files from OneDrive to your computer, then move them to the Google Drive folder to sync Google Drive with OneDrive. Here is how:
1. Please ensure you have installed OneDrive and Google Drive apps on your computer, it automatically generates the OneDrive and Google Drive folders.
2. Please open the Google Drive Preferences window, and use Mirror files to download all Google Drive files to your computer.
Tip: Check the differences between Mirror files and Stream files for Google Drive.
3. Open the OneDrive and Google Drive folders side by side.
4. Select the Google Drive files and folders you'd like to sync, drag and drop them to the OneDrive folder to sync Google Drive files to OneDrive.
Limitation: This way is also about downloading and re-uploading, so it's time-consuming and requires manual operations. So it's not the ideal way for you to perform Google Drive to OneDrive sync.
So, is it possible to avoid these problems? Yes! You can use the above third-party tool called MultCloud to perform the Google Drive OneDrive Sync effectively.
How to sync Google Drive to OneDrive? This article has introduced three solutions to sync Google Drive with OneDrive free. You can choose one method as you like. Conversely, you can also directly sync OneDrive and Google Drive with the help of MultCloud if MultCloud is your choice.
MultCloud supports OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, FTP, MySQL, MEGA, and more than 30 cloud services, so you can easily perform data migration or sync between different cloud drives, like move photos from Google Drive to Google Photos, etc.
In addition to the "Cloud Sync" feature, MultCloud also has "Cloud Transfer" and "Remote Upload" functions. Therefore, as long as you have cloud drives that MultCloud supports, you can manage cloud data with the most ease. For example, you will be able to quickly remote upload to MEGA, migrate Box to OneDrive, or upload to Google Drive from URL if necessary.