File in My Drive which is owned by someone else

[Saeed]

Hi,

I am fairly new to GSuite Team Drives. Maybe that is why I find what I have found a little bit weird as does not make sense to me. Here is the scenario I have faced:

We have a GSuite organisation which has a user, lets call it orgA. It shared a folder on his My Drive (not in Team Drive) to someone who has @gmail.com account, lets call it gmailB.

gmailB had access to add/edit files on this folder so it created a file but it shows it is owned by gmailB. IMO, when a folder is owned by orgA and shares with gmailB, any new files created in this folder should inherit ownership of folder. Can someone please shed a light on this topic so that I can understand how Google Drive works in terms of ownership and location of files?

Could this be related to the use of "Add to my drive" button?

Can GAM help us handle this in bulk?

We are now in a trouble that we want to move all our previously saved files into Team Drives so that we do not face this ownership issue anymore but we can not even claim ownership because domains of owners are different.

Thank you in advanced.

Cheers,

Saeed

[Ian Crew]

Hi Saeed:

All files and folders in My Drive are owned by the account that creates them, even if they’re within a folder owned by a different account. The owner of a file or folder can manually change the ownership to someone else, but not across domains. IMNSHO, it’s one of the biggest design flaws of My Drive, and isn’t fully addressed by Shared Drives. 

In your case, you can give the gmailB user access to the Shared Drive, and ask them to move the files/folders they own into that Shared Drive. 

Hope that helps,

Ian

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[+KimNilsson]

Using a Shared Drive as a "mediator" also presents us with the only way to migrate files from or to a G Suite organisation, to/from a non-domain account.