STEP 3: NEUTRALIZE OWNERSHIP IN SHARED DRIVE How To: Google Drive -> Transfer Ownership Shared Drive is like a sneaky little tunnel where you and your friends can pass things to each other without the burden of possession. If you’ve been working in Google Drive with individuals and struggling to transfer ownership from one person to another, here’s the trick:īump your ownership up a level with Shared Drive. For the rest of us living in the real world, we’re stuck trying to figure out how to gain control over that file or folder When you make someone else the owner of a folder, you still own the files inside.”Īpparently, only Google has the luxury of not losing team members from time to time. Then, suddenly, someone decides to take flight and leave the project for some super cool adventure.īut sucks for you if that person created any of those Google docs and therefore was the all-powerful owner.Īccording to Google, “You can only transfer ownership of files to people within your work or school. Let’s say you’re working with a team of IT heroes under multiple domains and you have people creating Google Docs on all sides. We get stuck in the “mine” game that is Google Drive ownership. Use Shared Drives to transfer ownership on any Drive Files from an outside domain to yours.
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