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Error : Consent is required to transfer ownership of a file to another user. #44
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Seems like the API won't work for |
Apparently the process changed and is described in this article https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/manage-sharing#transfer-consumer-account |
Any updates on this? I am in need of transferring every single file on one of my Google Drive accounts to another, and it's a pain. As it stands, the google-drive-recursive-ownership adds my other user as an Editor but the ownership transfer doesn't work, still, like @Butanium points out above due to the API changes... |
FWIW: I think I ended up CTRL+A in the search tab and then transfer the selection |
That won't work for me as I'm trying to work with thousands of files. |
This would have been such a useful tool before Google changed the API to require permissions for each change of ownership between consumer accounts. I considered updating the API calls to follow the new process described here: Another program could be written to accomplish step 2, but it would have to execute with the receiving user's identity. Otherwise the receiver would just receive a barrage of emails, one per file or folder, asking if they want to become the new owner. If you have enough files to warrant automating this process, wading through all those emails to accept seems to defeat the purpose. Astonishing shortcoming of Google Drive that it doesn't support recursive change of ownership, since it does support recursive change of sharing. |
Agree, @llang629. It means that we're all locked into the accounts that we set up a long time ago :( |
Once completed step 1 (I have a local patch to do that if anybody is interested), then you can fairly easily perform step 2 manually on Google Drive:
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Granting edit rights to *@gmail.com doesn't fix the issue.
I'm trying give ownership acess from another @gmail.com account
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