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There are a few ways in which you can access user files as a G Suite admin. It can also help you, as a manager, to stay on top of what each of your users is working on. (This may take quite some time.) Then, check the Drive folder and you should now see the outside account is the owner of the copied folder and its contents.Adopting shared drives within your organization can encourage collaboration and transparency within the workplace. Step 7: Wait for the new folder to sync with Drive. This will create the duplicate of the folder with your outside account as the owner of the folder. Step 6: Locate shared folder and right click on it. For me this meant deleting and re-downloading the app, but you may be able to do it much simpler.) (Note: If you already have Google Drive downloaded with your previous account, you will need to disconnect it and login with the new account. (you can download it here: Google Drive download).

Step 5: -First, you will need the Google Drive app downloaded to your hard drive. Note: this folder is still owned by the original account and you cannot change ownership from outside the domain. Step 4: Move folder from “Shared with Me” to “My Drive”. Step 3: Login to your external Google account. Step 2: Share folder with your Google account outside the domain. Step 1: Login into the Google account from which you wish to transfer ownership of documents. Move ALL the documents that you want to transfer from the original Google account to a folder within the same Drive. If you have attempted to transfer ownership of a document from one gmail account to another with a different domain, you may have encountered the message:įear not! There is a solution. Let’s get started!

Now, as a recent graduate afraid to separate with any of my old work stored on my university’s Google-based email, I set out to migrate all the documents from my school account (ending in the domain to my new “grown-up” account (domain: As you can tell these accounts are under…TWO DIFFERENT DOMAINS (dun dun dunnnnn). In fact, I went through all of college on Google Drive alone, “sticking it to the man” by never purchasing Microsoft Office Suite or a similar product. I first discovered its many uses my sophomore year of college as a way to seamlessly collaborate with my peers on projects and quickly fell in love with Google’s convenient multi-device cloud storage.

I’m a passionate believer in the power of Google Drive.