Google Drive Copy Folder Script

This script was created to facilitate copying of a directory tree.

Google drive copy folder script. Press ctrl a on windows or command a on mac to select all the files right click and then click make a copy google drive makes a copy of each file you selected places it in the current folder and adds copy of before each item s name. Select the copied version of the files and right click and select move to. To copy a folder you need to open it select all its content and copy them to different directory instead. There is a limitation in google drive where you can t transfer ownership between a google account and a google apps accounts.

Google drive do not let you copy a folder you can only copy file s inside a folder. You can make a copy of individual files but there s no command for creating duplicate folders that are a mirror of another folder. This method also doesn t block users from accessing the folder if they belong to a class of users who have general access for example if the folder is shared with the user s entire domain or if the folder is in a shared drive that the user can access. Google drive copy folder this is a google drive web app hosted at the chrome web store.

To get around all this fire up your browser head to google drive and open the folder you want to copy. As long as you have viewing rights on a folder you can copy it in its entirety to your own google drive. Fortunately there s google script to the rescue. Removes the given user from the list of viewers and commenters for the folder this method has no effect if the user is an editor not a viewer.

If not specified as part of a copy request the file will inherit any discoverable parents of the source file. If not specified as part of an insert request the file will be placed directly in the user s my drive folder. Update requests can also use the addparents and removeparents parameters to modify the parents list. Now you can copy these files to another folder in the drive.