How To Share And Transfer Google Drive Folder Ownership

Learn how to grant access to your Google Drive folders and transfer ownership. This guide provides a simple walkthrough to help you effectively manage your file permissions and collaboration settings.

Amanda Renouf
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36 seconds

Google Drive

Pro-tip! Highly recommend having a "Main Folder" inside your Google Drive account for all your business subfolders & documents. That way you can easily share and remove access to all your documents and folders with virtual assistants, freelancers, and any agencies you work with. Any additional documents, folders, and assets they create within the main folder will automatically be created with your account being the owner, no need to manually transfer ownership for each piece!)

Log into your Google Drive and select the folder you would like to transfer ownership on

Note! You can also transfer ownership of documents and any asset within your Google Drive account by following this process too! Just click the blue "Share" button within the specific document or asset :)

Click on the dropdown icon on the folder you are trying to transfer ownership of

Click "Share"

Click "Share" again

Enter in the "email address" of the person you would like to transfer ownership to

Click "Send"

Click this dropdown icon again

Click "Share"

Click on the dropdown icon of the person you would like to transfer ownership to. Select "Yes" on the next screen, and an automated Google invitation email will be sent to the person you are transferring ownership of the folder, document, or asset to!

Select the "Transfer ownership" option

Click "Done"

Congratulations! You did it!

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