How to Migrate Your Google Drive Data from a Google Apps account to a personal account
https://support.google.com/a/answer/100458?hl=en
The official method is not good, we will lose (Google Document) format information.
Recently I find a way to migrate my documents from my Google Apps account chenyang[at]masols.com
to my personal account, say chenyang[at]gmail.com
- In
chenyang[at]masols.com
- At ROOT dir, create a folder
_shared_to_accounts_out_of_this_domain_
, and shared withchenyang[at]gmail.com
. - Then move all files and folders to this folder.
- At ROOT dir, create a folder
- In
chenyang[at]gmail.com
- At ROOT dir, create a folder
_working_tmp_dir_
- Open “Shared with me” in sidebar.
- Find folder
_shared_to_accounts_out_of_this_domain_
, right click on it, select “Move to…”, and then choose the_working_tmp_dir_
. - At the time, we got all files/dirs in
ROOT/_working_tmp_dir_/_shared_to_accounts_out_of_this_domain_/*
- At ROOT dir, create a folder
- Install Google Drive (for Windows)
- Login with
chenyang[at]gmail.com
- Only sync
ROOT/_working_tmp_dir_
to local machine. - After all files/dirs are synced to local, copy
ROOT/_working_tmp_dir_/_shared_to_accounts_out_of_this_domain_
toROOT/_working_tmp_dir_/_copy_files_
- Wait for all things are synced to remote.
- Login with
- In
chenyang[at]masols.com
- Stop sharing to
chenyang[at]gmail.com
at step 1
- Stop sharing to
At last, you will find all the files/dirs at ROOT/_working_tmp_dir_/_copy_files_
, and you can do anything you want.