Google Drive: File Ownership Transfer Process

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.

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Accessing Files

  1. Go to Google Drive.
  2. Open the Advanced Search on the right of the search bar.
    1. You might need to do a text search first to get an advanced search optionadvanced search 
  3. Set the Owner to Owned by me.
  4. Under Location, select More Locations, then All Locations and choose a specific work folder.

Transferring Ownership

  1. Select all the files and folders that appear (use Shift+Click to select multiple).
  2. Click the Share button.
    Share button
  3. In the Share Items window, find the name of the person you want to transfer to.
  4. From the Editor drop-down next to their name, select Transfer Ownership.
    1. If needed, add the person as an editor first.​​​​​​​
      ​​​​​​​Transfer Ownership Circled

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