How to Copy One Google Drive to Another Account?

User Case

“We are going through a company name change and need to copy all of our Google Drive files/folders from one Google Drive account to the new one. We don’t want to do an actual transfer at this time. We just want to copy it so that we can still access all files on the old account until we are ready to make the final transition to the new name/account. Is that possible? ”

This question was raised by a user who has several Google Drive accounts and it reflects a common phenomenon when people have multiple Google Drive accounts. Is there a way that can copy files from one google drive to another? Sure, this problem can be done easily with the “Download” and “Upload” features offered by Google. But it take times when the network is not in good condition. The most important one is that you cannot close the page when downloading or uploading files.

Continue reading the following parts and we are going to introduce two free simple ways to copy one Google Drive to another account easily and quickly with a free cloud file manager tool, MultCloud.

How to Copy One Google Drive to Another?

Before doing the operations, you need to follow the below steps to create one MultCloud account and add your Google Drive accounts to MultCloud.

Step 1. Create Account

Create one MultCloud account or you can click experience without signing up and log in MultCloud.

Step 2. Add Clouds

Add your Google Drive accounts to MultCloud.

Choose methods below to transfer Google Drive to another.

Method 1. Use Copy and Paste Feature through Cloud Explorer

Open your source Google Drive account, select files or folder you want to copy, right click the selected folders or files, click “Copy to” and click ”Transfer” button, you can copy one Google Drive to another quickly.

Method 2. Create a Cloud Transfer Task

Select folder you want to copy, select the destination path to save the folder, click the “Transfer Now” and wait for the process to complete.

Note: For Cloud Transfer feature, it transfer folder only. If you want to copy files and folders from the source account to destination cloud, please use method 1.

More about MultCloud

Whether you choose any of the above methods, MultCloud can help you copy one Google Drive to another account with just a few steps. In addition to the “Cloud Transfer” function, MultCloud also has “Cloud Sync” feature. You can easily sync Box to Google Drive and sync OneDrive and Google Drive with the help of it.