upload folder to user drive

[Keith Craig]

Hi,

I am wanting to upload user home folders from a server to their Google Drive. Is there a way to recursively copy the contents of a folder to a user’s drive?

I tried

gam user fr...@nodomain.com add drivefile localfile /Users/fred/Documents/AFolder recusive

But I get ERROR: /Users/fred/Documents/AFolder: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/Users/fred/Documents/AFolder '

 

I figure I am not reading the manual correctly and just not getting my head around this one.

 

Thanks

 

Keith

 

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[Peter Smulders]

Hi Keith,

I am wanting to upload user home folders from a server to their Google Drive. Is there a way to recursively copy the contents of a folder to a user’s drive?

Not using GAM or GAMADV-X. You should try rclone (https://rclone.org/drive/)

As an alternative -- and depending on whether it is one user or a need to do this work for multiple users -- for a single account, you could install Google Drive File Stream ( https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7329379?hl=en ) or Google Backup and Sync ( https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987 ), point those programs at the top folder(s) and let them figure it out.

--peter

[Keith Craig]

Peter,

Thanks for this. We are moving away from using a local server to using Google Drive and I want to move users' data for them rather than having to go to each user and talk them through it. I used File Stream to copy shared folders to Team Drive - worked well.

regards

Keith