Change Ownership of a File in Google Drive (as User or Admin)

In this video I walk you through the steps needed to transfer ownership of your files. Either as a private user, or as a GSuite Domain Admin.
If you are leaving your organisation or school, or a member of staff or student is no longer attending, changing ownership makes sure the files don't get lost.

First, I will show you how you can manually change the ownership of a single file in YOUR own Google Drive.

Next, It's the Admins turn to Automatically change someones entire Drive content and transfer the ownership to a new user.
This can be done in the back-end, without having to manually move each and every file.

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[tempest]

when i do that it says

Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to (Person). Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same domain as the current owner.

[locatedplaces]

This saved me a lot of headache. Thank you

[deez]

My teacher sent me a message that she accidentally made me the owner of our zoom class video now im here to give it back to her :')

[sueullyett]

Hi, how do I transfer ownership if the new owner is not part of my domain. Or how do I make her part of my domain?

[jonahback]

Super straight forward and easy to follow along. Thanks for the help!

[jarlfriis]

The transfer as admin only works for documents owned by people in the G suite organisation. I have documents stored in my organisation g-drive that is owned by users outside the G-suite organisation. I want to transfer those ownerships to users within the organisation. How to do that?

[hazelmaeescalicas]

Gosh!!! thank u relly I didn't know what to do but know I do

[WolmirMattardaSilva]

I skydived in this video, it's a great help, I wanted to do it but I'm not sure if what was taught applies to files within the "shared files" content created by others and that I have files inside?

[suiltan]

Please create an admin playlist. I think that would be amazing. Also, can you do a slower step by step walk through through every step. I'm kind of new to this. 🙂

[prayagnaidu]

Thank you so much! I watched a lot of videos but this one was quite straight forward thank you !!!!

[gfblzqu]

Hi I'm going to start a new role as a help desk technician next week so if you can publish more relevant videos for new admins it would be great... Many thanks!!!!

[lalitbora]

Thanks so much for teaching. its really works

[irfanjethwa]

How to transfer out of organisation to some other gmail?

[gogochannel]

How to edit video or remove onwner in video file to not copyright

[clockgreenfeed]

Am I missing something? this doesn't show you how to transfer *A* file as an admin. It's how to move all files.

[premDDL]

can this task be done using mobile google drive

[nadhirarizky]

hello. I wonder what will happen after I change the file ownership to the new owner and then I delete the original owner's email account would the file I transfered be deleted too?

[doctorhcodm]

Can we delete the file if we change ownership

[TubeTechie]

Awesome tutorial! Good tips about suspending the account!

[gwenda]

Hi, I am the owner of the google docs but I accidentally clicked "viewer" in "Anyone with this link". Although I am the owner, i cannot edit the google docs anymore because I am only a viewer. Please helppp