Moving school documents from your personal Google Drive to your new school Google Drive

If you have any school related documents on your personal Google Drive, you will want to move these to your new school issued Google Drive because the edu account will come with a higher level of security for school data.

1. Open Chrome and start by opening your personal Google Drive and sign in.

2. Now open another tab/window and sign in to your new school Google Drive.

3. Now you have your personal drive in one tab and your school drive in another, which will make it easier to transfer the files.

4. Now go back to your personal drive and select any files that you want to move over to your school drive. You can select numerous files at once by highlighting one and then holding the Shift key down while you click on all the other files you want to transfer.

5. Near the top of the screen there is a Share button(little person with a plus sign next to it). Click the share button and type in the email address to your new school Google Drive and then click send.

6. Go to the tab with your school drive and over to the left click on Shared with me and you will see the docs that you just sent to yourself. However, the author is still you from your personal drive so you need to make a copy of these.

7. Highlight all these documents and right click(or two finger click) and choose Make a Copy.

8. If you click on Recent, then you will see the docs and the author will be listed as “me”. The documents will now say, “Copy of…”. You can rename them by right clicking them, or two finger click, and choosing Rename.

9. You can also go back to the Shared with me button and right click those documents and hit Remove because you will not need them anymore since you made a copy.

10. If you go back to the Recent tab, you also notice that these documents are not in any folder and not really organized. You can highlight them and right click and choose Move to. You will have the option of moving them into whatever folder you created for them.