How To Transfer Documents From Google Drive To Microsoft Sharepoint?

This article is for users who are facing the same problem: How to import documents from Google Drive to SharePoint? Whether you do not want to lose precious documents from your internal shared drive, or you just acquired an unfamiliar environment and need to bring external contents into your local SharePoint server, you should have a sharing switch like OneDrive for Business for the seamless transferring of data.

Sometimes you need to migrate to Google shared Drives to SharePoint online. It may be for your company to use Microsoft 365 services instead of Google services. But these large data from large workspaces can be tough to move. If you try this on your own the process can easily fail for any interruption.

But if you follow the correct processes this complex task can also be easier for you. So, in this article, I’m discussing how the complex task can be done as easily as possible. If you have some basic experience in handling tasks like this you’ll get some advantages.

Before You Get Started

For accessing SharePoint you need an Office 365 Id or access. So, first, confirm you have a valid id and access to the app online.

Also, you need a Google id with G-suite access to move to driver files.

Also, you have to pay attention to some facts and these are:

1. This process has many ways to do it. But I’m showing an easier way to follow each of the steps properly to be successful.
2. Ensure you have a continuous internet connection to avoid failed data transfer or any data loss.
3. Don’t delete any of your data from the Drive before transferring it to your SharePoint. 
4. If possible backup your data to your PC or external HDD before the transfer. You can download these files as a zip.

Steps to follow

Turn on your PC and follow the steps carefully to ensure the proper transfer of documents from Google Drive to Microsoft SharePoint:

1. First, you need to access your Google Drive. So sign in with your Google credentials and from the Google, apps menu click on the Drive icon.
   
2. From Google, you now have to open the documents that you want to move, for example, I’m now selecting Team Drives.
   
3. From there open the folder where your documents are in which you want to move.
   
4. Select all the documents you want to move by left click hold and drag the mouse across those files. After selecting all the files right mouse click and click the Download option for downloading those files.
   
5. All of the downloaded files will be compressed and downloaded as a zip file. It may take some time depending on your internet connection stability. So, ensure the internet connection is continuous and wait for some time.
   
6. Check your download folder or compressed folder in downloads. The extract the files that you just have downloaded. Now keep the folder open for following the next steps.
7. Now sign in to Office 365 and from the app, the launcher opens the SharePoint app.
   
8. From the SharePoint app, choose the SharePoint site where you want to upload your downloaded documents.
   
9. In the site menu, you’ll find the Documents option. Click on this.
   
10. Now from where you have downloaded all of your documents from the Drive, open that folder and select and drag all the documents into the SharePoint documents screen.
    

After following these steps properly as instructed we can successfully move any Google Drive document or documents to SharePoint with ease.

Summary: How to transfer documents from Google Drive to Microsoft Sharepoint?

•  A quick and dirty solution is to zip the files from the source cloud, download them on your machine, then upload them to the destination.
• The challenge is that you must have enough storage space locally to handle the zipped archive.
• In this case, we are going to install the client application for Sharepoint and use it to move files from a local directory on your PC to Sharepoint.
• The key here is that there is not as much concern with storage space on your PC as there would be with downloading a large zip file on your PC.
• If you have access to Sharepoint and wished to move documents from Google Drive directly, this would work provided that Google Drive exposes a web service interface (API) to allow you to automate a file move.
• There are any number of ways to solve these types of problems.