Syntax for transferring ownership of files with a list of folder IDs

[Allen Hancock]

I've got a two lists of google drive folders which I need to transfer ownership from us...@example.com to us...@example.com.

There's a parent folder (FolderA) in userB's MyDrive

I have a list of folder IDs owned by UserA which are at the root of FolderA (level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt)

I have another list of folder IDs which are owned by UserA, those are all children of folders in level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt.

(level-two-folders-to-transfer.txt)

I don't want to move any of the folders away from their existing parent, and I wish to retain all existing permissions files or folders inside folders who's ownership is being changed.

I feel like I'm using the correct options, but I am not sure how to reference the folders.. I think I don't  follow how to use "DriveFileEntity"

gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership csv level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt us...@example.com norecursion true

Here's what I get:

% gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership csv level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt us...@example.com norecursion true preview
Command: ~/bin/gam7/gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership csv >>>level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt<<< us...@example.com norecursion true preview

ERROR: Invalid argument: Expected <FileName(:FieldName)+>
Help: Syntax in file ~/bin/gam7/GamCommands.txt
Help: Documentation is at https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki

% gam version
GAM 7.07.14 - https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM - pyinstaller
GAM Team <google-ap...@googlegroups.com>
Python 3.13.3 64-bit final
MacOS Sequoia 15.5 arm64
Path: ~/bin/gam7
Config File: ~/.gam/gam.cfg, Section: example-usera, customer_id: xxxxxxxxx, domain: example.com
Time: 2025-05-30T17:57:00+00:00

Do I need to create the txt files as csv's with a specific header?

The list of folders could also be found in a named range in a google sheet.. would it be possible (or better) to use that as a source?

Thanks all

-Allen

[Ross Scroggs]

Send me a private Meet/Zoom invitation and I'll help.

Ross

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[Ross Scroggs]

Do I need to create the txt files as csv's with a specific header?

Yes, I'm assuming that each of your two files have a column of file IDs, one per row.

The should be a header row with the valid id

Test with the preview option, then remove it to perform the transfer.

gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership csvfile level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt:id us...@example.com norecursion true preview

Ross

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On May 30, 2025, at 11:02 AM, 'Allen Hancock' via GAM for Google Workspace <google-ap...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

[Allen Hancock]

Thanks so much for the call.

What you showed me was that the syntax I needed (along with having the first line of my file be "id") was

gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership csvfile level-one-folders-to-transfer.txt:id us...@example.com norecursion true preview

and you helped me upgrade the command to using a google sheet directly, and in batches of 20 vs 1 at a time (this example let me test just the first 10 rows.. otherwise I could remove maxrows 10)

gam config num_threads 20 redirect stdout ./firstlevel-output.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv gsheet us...@example.com GSHEET_ID_WITH_COLUMN_OF_DATA id:SHEET_ID skiprows 0 maxrows 10 gam user us...@example.com transfer ownership "~id" us...@example.com norecursion true

Wonderful!

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