Как изменить владельца папки на гугл диске

asked Apr 12, 2013 at 20:47

I created a command-line tool to handle this.

After following the setup instructions on the GitHub project, you can run the tool with a specified path prefix and the email address of the new owner:

python transfer.py PATH-PREFIX NEW-OWNER-EMAIL

After getting authorization from OAuth, it will recursively walk the Google Drive account it got authorization to, match against the path prefix (ignoring non-matches), and then transfer ownership to the new email. If the new email address indicates a user who isn’t even shared on the item yet, it will handle that as well. The current owner will not lose access, but the new or old owner can revoke it.

I should note that it’s not always possible to transfer ownership of an item in Drive. For example, it’s not possible to move ownership for an item from G Suite (Google Apps for Work) account to a normal GMail account. It can be shared (which the script will do), but ownership transfer will fail.

answered Apr 17, 2015 at 21:27

Seems like a very simple process to me…

You can use the search bar at the top of the WebGUI for Google Drive. Just select your user’s username in the owner dropdown, choose the type (such as folder if you want to), choose the location of the folder you want to turn owner to the department head, then click search.

In the search results, select as many folders as you want to process in one round (I like to do it in chunks so I can see progress). Then right click, «share». Set the department head user to OWNER rather than write access.

Rinse and repeat as needed (if you do the same thing again the files you have already converted will not show up in your search of course because they are now owned by the department head).

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 1:42

A simple method (and slightly different than other suggestions currently posted) to recursively change ownership of all items within a folder:

1. «right-click» on the top-level folder on which you want to recursively change ownership (OR, in the full directory path shown at the top, click the «down arrow» on the current folder), and select option «Search within {this folder}»
2. the resulting file list is all files and folders, recursively beneath that folder. Select them all (eg, «ctrl-a» to select all, or shift-click top & bottom items)
3. right-click all selected items, select «Share»
4. select the new user to who you wish to assign ownership
5. select «Make owner» (if different items currently have different owners, it will say «various», but will still give you the option to assign a new owner)

Unfortunately, only google docs and folders can have ownership changed, as per this help page, and if you try to change another file, (e.g, a zip or pdf) you’ll get an error like «you can’t yet change the owner of this file, we’re working on it». Currently, those will have to be downloaded & re-uploaded, it seems.

answered May 25, 2020 at 11:30

You can check several folders, then press right mouse button, choose ‘Share’, and edit access rights.

Does it work for you?

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 12:41

The best way I have found to do this is to head on over to the «All Items» view, keep on scrolling down until no more files load, and then hit the tick box on top which selects all files and folders in the current view. Once all items are selected, click more, and then share and share again. In the share box change to the appropriate sharing levels and click done.

The only caveat here is you change the permissions for ALL of your files and folders.

For Google Apps users: the administrator can sign in to https://admin.google.com/ and navigate to Apps > Google Apps > Drive > Transfer Ownership. This operation keeps the files accessible to both users but recursively changes ownership of every file/folder from UserA to UserB; one could temporarily transfer all to themselves then promptly set desired permissions on each file/folder.

Google — Transfer ownership of Drive documents

answered Nov 8, 2015 at 0:56

answered May 12, 2020 at 22:51

asked Apr 12, 2013 at 20:47

I created a command-line tool to handle this.

After following the setup instructions on the GitHub project, you can run the tool with a specified path prefix and the email address of the new owner:

python transfer.py PATH-PREFIX NEW-OWNER-EMAIL

After getting authorization from OAuth, it will recursively walk the Google Drive account it got authorization to, match against the path prefix (ignoring non-matches), and then transfer ownership to the new email. If the new email address indicates a user who isn’t even shared on the item yet, it will handle that as well. The current owner will not lose access, but the new or old owner can revoke it.

I should note that it’s not always possible to transfer ownership of an item in Drive. For example, it’s not possible to move ownership for an item from G Suite (Google Apps for Work) account to a normal GMail account. It can be shared (which the script will do), but ownership transfer will fail.

answered Apr 17, 2015 at 21:27

Seems like a very simple process to me…

You can use the search bar at the top of the WebGUI for Google Drive. Just select your user’s username in the owner dropdown, choose the type (such as folder if you want to), choose the location of the folder you want to turn owner to the department head, then click search.

In the search results, select as many folders as you want to process in one round (I like to do it in chunks so I can see progress). Then right click, «share». Set the department head user to OWNER rather than write access.

Rinse and repeat as needed (if you do the same thing again the files you have already converted will not show up in your search of course because they are now owned by the department head).

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 1:42

A simple method (and slightly different than other suggestions currently posted) to recursively change ownership of all items within a folder:

1. «right-click» on the top-level folder on which you want to recursively change ownership (OR, in the full directory path shown at the top, click the «down arrow» on the current folder), and select option «Search within {this folder}»
2. the resulting file list is all files and folders, recursively beneath that folder. Select them all (eg, «ctrl-a» to select all, or shift-click top & bottom items)
3. right-click all selected items, select «Share»
4. select the new user to who you wish to assign ownership
5. select «Make owner» (if different items currently have different owners, it will say «various», but will still give you the option to assign a new owner)

Unfortunately, only google docs and folders can have ownership changed, as per this help page, and if you try to change another file, (e.g, a zip or pdf) you’ll get an error like «you can’t yet change the owner of this file, we’re working on it». Currently, those will have to be downloaded & re-uploaded, it seems.

answered May 25, 2020 at 11:30

You can check several folders, then press right mouse button, choose ‘Share’, and edit access rights.

Does it work for you?

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 12:41

The best way I have found to do this is to head on over to the «All Items» view, keep on scrolling down until no more files load, and then hit the tick box on top which selects all files and folders in the current view. Once all items are selected, click more, and then share and share again. In the share box change to the appropriate sharing levels and click done.

The only caveat here is you change the permissions for ALL of your files and folders.

For Google Apps users: the administrator can sign in to https://admin.google.com/ and navigate to Apps > Google Apps > Drive > Transfer Ownership. This operation keeps the files accessible to both users but recursively changes ownership of every file/folder from UserA to UserB; one could temporarily transfer all to themselves then promptly set desired permissions on each file/folder.

Google — Transfer ownership of Drive documents

answered Nov 8, 2015 at 0:56

answered May 12, 2020 at 22:51