Transfer ownership

[JMBaker]

We have a pastor leaving and we would like to transfer google files from the G-suite to his personal account but it is not allowed. Why? Is there a workaround?

JMBaker

[KAM]

@JMBaker recommend two solutions:

- Use takeout.google.com and export the data for your Pastor

- If you have a license that support Google Shared Drives, create a shared drive with the Pastor's gmail account having permissions that allow him to move the files out of the shared drive to gmail.

-KAM

[paul_lees]

Agree with @KAM moving files via a Google Shared Drive is the best option, Google Takeout is only good for grabbing email and even that's a bit limited as it exports as an MBox file which then needs 3rd party tools to move elsewhere, even back into Google.

We recently wrote a doc on how to migrate data via a Google Shared Drive - https://www.bespinlabs.com/moving-google-files-to-another-domain-via-shared-drives/

Hope it's useful.