Find My Drive Folder ID for Specific User

[Don Beck]

I am looking for a way to get the My Drive folder id for a specific user.  Once I have that, I know how to transfer ownership and move it to a shared drive.  I want to use this for when an employee leave the company

Would also be nice to run this for entire domain.

[Ross Scroggs]

Don,

The Drive API recognizes a user's My Drive with the id alias: root

so you don't generally need the actual id but the following will get the actual id.

Single user, Standard and Advanced

gam user testsimple show fileinfo root id

All users, Advanced, Serial

gam redirect csv ./MyDriveIds.csv all users print filelist select root fields id norecursion

All users, Advanced, Parallel

gam config auto_batch_min 1 redirect csv ./MyDriveIds.csv multiprocess all users print filelist select root fields id norecursion

Ross

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On Dec 29, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Don Beck <dcb...@merig.com> wrote:

I am looking for a way to get the My Drive folder id for a specific user.  Once I have that, I know how to transfer ownership and move it to a shared drive.  I want to use this for when an employee leave the company

Would also be nice to run this for entire domain.

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[Don Beck]

Thanks Ross - exactly what I needed!!

Thanks,

Don

Don Beck

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Meriwether Godsey, Inc.

Meriwether Godsey

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[Don Beck]

Hi Ross

Once I have the id, I try to transfer ownership but it fails - say claim ownership failed: not found

using this command

gam user ad...@domain.com claim ownership <folder id>

What am I doing wrong?  Do I need to share admin to that folder?

Thanks,

Don

Don Beck

Director of Systems & Technology

Meriwether Godsey, Inc.

Meriwether Godsey

(434) 849-7323 (office)

(434) 258-1775 (cell)

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[Kevin Brokamp]

Hi Don,

Just wondering if you ever got the claim ownership command to work in cases like these.  If so, can you please share the command you used?  This would be extremely helpful for us when moving data around in our instance.

Kevin

[Don Beck]

Hi Kevin

Here's what we do:

We just transfer all the data over to new ownership.  We used to claim ownership but that gets messy when they have things in their My Drive that they don't own.

So we:

1. Transfer to our Admin Account

  gam create datatransfer old...@domain.com gdrive ad...@domain.com privacy_level shared,private  

this creates folder in our Admin account My Drive

Response to command gives your transfer ID

2. gam info datatransfer <transfer id>

once it is complete then we

3.   gam user ad...@domain.com move drivefile id <My Drive Folder ID> parentid <Account Shared Drive Folder ID>

which moves in folder  and content created under out admin account to a specific shared drive   

you can also get the drive id for specific user by:   gam user <name> show fileinfo rood id

where name is na...@domain.com - only the part before the @ symbol

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Don

Don Beck

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Meriwether Godsey

(434) 849-7323 (office)

(434) 258-1775 (cell)

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