Taking Ownership of a Shared Drive File Who's Owner Left the Company

[Dale Courtney]

We have an employee who left the company and whose account is long deleted. 

He has ownership of a GSheet on a Shared Drive that I am Manager of. But I need to take ownership of the file itself because on the file we have no Managers.

When I run the following: 

gam show ownership 

It shows me that my Google Shared Drive is the owner. 

When I run the following: 

gam user dale.courtney claim ownership id

I get the error: 

Claim Ownership Failed: Not Found

I'm running the following: 

GAMADV-XTD3 6.71.17 - https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3 - pyinstaller

Ross Scroggs <ross.s...@gmail.com>

Python 3.12.2 64-bit final

MacOS Sonoma 14.4 arm64

Thanks in advance.

best,

Dale Courtney
Senior IT Manager, Lightcast

232 N. Almon St. | Moscow, ID | 83843

[Maj Marshall Giguere]

Dale;

If this is truly on a shared drive then the shared drive is the owner.  Users do not own files on shared drives, they simply have various levels of access.

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[Ross Scroggs]

Dale,

If you're a manager of a Shared Drive, then you're a manager of every file on the shared drive.

What does this show: gam user dale show drivefileacls <id>

Ross

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[Dale Courtney]

Hey, Marshall. I would have thought so, too. But this is what I see: 

best,

Dale

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[Ross Scroggs]

Dale,

Send me a Meet/Zoom invitation.

Ross

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[Dale Courtney]

Ross: Thanks for jumping in on this. 

    Dale Courtney (5/6)

      id: id

      type: user

      emailAddress: dale.c...@emsibg.com

      domain: emsibg.com

      role: organizer

      permissionDetails:

        role: organizer

          type: member

          inherited: True

          inheritedFrom: file_id

      photoLink: url

      deleted: False

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