I manage the GDrive within our cohousing community but one of our more active digital collaborators has moved house. This person is the owner of quite a few folders/files on a drive shared by 40 people. To my understanding, removing them from the main folder will likely also remove their stuff, which can be things a lot of people are relying on – like our drinking tab, very important!
Should I now make manual copies of the files they own (and thus peruse through hundreds of folders) or is there a better way? Should I give former inhabitants the assignment of transferring their ownership to me? Which is likely not an easy task if the shared folder has a very complex structure… What tricks does InSync have up their sleeve to attack this problem?
I just discovered that it’s possible to search for “owner:email@address.com” within Google Drive and I just did that for this person, which came up with 223 results… Any kind of automation would be very nice!
You could probably check for file structure to make sure most, if not all, are within parent folders. And then maybe put all those folders within a master folder? So that you only need to ask the owner/s to only transfer one big folder to you. You can re-arrange the structure at a later time if need be.
Hi Mia, thank you for your reply. I hoped there would be some sneaky InSync feature that finds folders/files by person X and sneakily copies them, then removes the old one, so I’d then be the owner of said files. Ah well, worth a shot. Looks like I’ll be doing some digging!
