For people leaving the University or changing departments, transferring team files to a shared drive may require transferring ownership of your work to someone else.
Table of Contents
Accessing Files
- Go to Google Drive.
- Open the Advanced Search on the right of the search bar.
- You might need to do a text search first to get an advanced search option
- You might need to do a text search first to get an advanced search option
- Set the Owner to Owned by me.
- Under Location, select More Locations, then All Locations and choose a specific work folder.
Transferring Ownership
- Select all the files and folders that appear (use Shift+Click to select multiple).
- Click the Share button.
- In the Share Items window, find the name of the person you want to transfer to.
- From the Editor drop-down next to their name, select Transfer Ownership.
- If needed, add the person as an editor first.
- If needed, add the person as an editor first.