Google Drive Recursive Ownership Tool

Supported Files

G Suite for Government and G Suite for Education accounts can change ownership of any file owned by the current user, including uploaded/synced files suchs as PDFs.

Other Google Accounts such as G Suite for Business or Personal Google Accounts can only transfer ownership of Google files (Docs, Sheets, Sildes, Forms, Drawings, My Maps, and folders).

NOTE: Ownership can only be transferred to members of the same G Suite or Google domain. Ex. @gmail.com can only transfer to other @gmail.com addresses.

NOTE: The Google Drive API does not allow suppressing notifications for change of ownership if the if the new owner does not already have access to the file. However, if the new owner already has access to the file, upgrading their permissions to ownership will not generate a notification.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/davidstrauss/google-drive-recursive-ownership
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Usage

If transfer.py is contained in a folder listed in your system's PATH this can be run from anywhere. Otherwise it needs to be run from the directory where transfer.py is located.

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

• PATH-PREFIX assumes use of "/" or "" as appropriate for your operating system.
• SHOW-ALREADY-OWNER "true"|"false" (default true) to hide feedback for files already set correctly

Windows Example:

python transfer.py "Folder 1\Folder 2\Folder 3" new_owner@example.com true

Mac/Linux Example:

python transfer.py "Folder 1/Folder 2/Folder 3" new_owner@example.com false