Google Drive Recursive Mover & Ownership Transfer Tool

Original idea is from davidstrauss/google-drive-recursive-ownership.

These scripts use Google Drive API v3. The transfer.py can recursively give the ownership of all files and folders to a given user while the move.py can move all files to a new place which is useful for moving files to a shared drive because moving folders is not supported.

Supported Files

G Suite for Government and G Suite for Education accounts can change ownership of any file owned by the current user, including uploaded/synced files suchs as PDFs.

Other Google Accounts such as G Suite for Business or Personal Google Accounts can only transfer ownership of Google files (Docs, Sheets, Sildes, Forms, Drawings, My Maps, and folders).

NOTE: Ownership can only be transferred to members of the same G Suite or Google domain. Ex. @gmail.com can only transfer to other @gmail.com addresses.

NOTE: The Google Drive API does not allow suppressing notifications for change of ownership.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/BSStudio/google-drive-recursive-ownership-transfer
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

First, replace the sample client_secrets.json with your own client secrets. Don't forget to enable Drive API for your project.

Transferring ownership

CURRENT LIMITATION: Due to e-mail sending the script can only process ~2500 files before Google rejects the requests.

python transfer.py [-h] -o OWNER [-f FOLDER]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OWNER, --owner OWNER
                        E-mail address of the new owner.
  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
                        ID of the Google Drive folder. The user's root directory will be used if left empty.

Moving files/folders

python move.py [-h] -d DESTINATION [-f FOLDER]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DESTINATION, --destination DESTINATION
                        ID of the destination folder where the files should be moved to.
  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
                        ID of the Google Drive folder. The user's root directory will be used if left empty.

Listing owners with number of files owned by them

python count.py [-h] [-f FOLDER]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
                        ID of the Google Drive folder. The user's root directory will be used if left empty.