moving from my drive containing multiple owners to shared drive

[Temsnr]

Hi,

I've been reading up on the transfer of folders & files in My Drive to a single Shared Drive. My understanding is that moving the items within our domain is not a problem, given appropriate permissions, the problem comes with moving items that have ownership outside our domain (and is not a subdomain) what's the best way to handle this? Is a one-liner possible?

I have a list of all the folder/file ID's, paths, parent ID and owners which I could use as input if need be.

The folder/file structure should be the same as it was in the My Drive.

I've read the wiki about ownership and Drive copy/move, I just want to get it right first time! 

Thank you

Temple

[Temsnr]

a quick update, I've been doing a bit more reading and this is the process I've thunk up, how does that look? is there a better way?:

1. Create top-level folder in from user's My Drive, at the same level as the folder tree we want to copy

2. Move (drag and drop) the externally owned folders to the top-level folder we just created, we have the mapping within the tree logged in our spreadsheet

3. Move using GAM single files not owned by our users but are within our owned folders to our temporary folder

4. Move everything in the original source folder tree to the shared drive (drag & drop)

5. Use GAM to copy (not move) the remaining folders and files to the correct destination folders in the Shared Drive

6. Use GAM to copy the single files to the appropriate folder in the Shared Drive (using the data that we've got with the file id's)

7. Once that’s done, the files will be owned by the Shared Drive and we’ll be free to move them around.

[Temsnr]

Thank you @ross for spending some time with me and talking it through. For those of you who are interested, the process is more or less right. A key point is that, no matter what anyone else says, there is no way I can take ownership of a file owned by someone outside my domain, so the folders/files have to be copied and then moved. Even tools that purport to "take ownership" are actually making a copy. 

[Andy Meyers]

Just to add to this, while we use GAM to do a lot of stuff, we have been using Folgo to help move things between users and shared drives. One thing Folgo WILL do is transfer ownership of externally owned files. It does this by sending a request to the owner, having them install their add-in and then approving the transfer. From there it can transfer the ownership as the user.

[Temsnr]

that's interesting Andy - I'm pretty reluctant to install apps unless they're squeaky clean and don't have have any adware. Asking the original owner to transfer ownership is a good idea, hopefully you have a high success rate of them responding positively.

I'll check it out anyway.

Best regards

Temple