Migrate Google Drive data from Gmail to workspace

Problem

How can you migrate Drive data from a Gmail account to a Google Workspace user account?

Environment

  • Drive
  • Web client

Solution

  1. Download your Gmail account's Google Drive data to your locate storage device either manually as described in Download a file,  or you can also use Google Takeout which will allow you to download a compressed file of all of your Google Drive data.
  2. Once the data has been downloaded, you can upload it manually into one or more Google Workspace accounts. Steps to do this can be found in Upload files & folders to Google Drive.