Make someone else the owner of your file

By default, you ain whatever file yous create in or upload to Google Drive.

If y'all use a personal Google Account:

  • Yous can invite some other person with a personal Google Business relationship to take ownership of your files and folders.
  • You lot can't invite another person with a work or school account to accept ownership of your files or folders.
  • The person you lot invite to ain the file or folder must accept your request to complete the transfer.

Before you transfer ownership

When you brand someone else the possessor of a folder, yous still own the files inside. Larn more near sharing folders.

Tip: If you transfer ownership of a lot of files and folders at once, it may take some time for you to see the changes.

After you transfer buying

When y'all send an buying transfer request:

  • The pending owner is notified past email that if they accept the transfer request, they become the file owner. Until then, you remain the owner.
  • The pending owner is upgraded to an Editor, unless they're already an Editor.
  • If the pending owner accepts, you lot're downgraded to Editor. The new owner tin remove you.
  • If the awaiting owner declines, you remain the owner.

Tip: To cancel the ownership transfer request, adjacent to the person y'all shared the file with, click the Down pointer Down and then Cancel buying transfer. When you click the Downwardly arrow Down, y'all tin can change each participant'south permissions.

You lot remain the file possessor until the pending owner accepts your invitation. After the awaiting owner accepts your invitation, you can edit the file until the new possessor changes your admission.

Important:

  • Yous can't transfer a file from your personal Google account to someone with a piece of work or school account.
  • If you send an ownership transfer asking to a personal account and that account becomes a work or schoolhouse account, the pending owner can't accept the asking.
  • If yous ship an ownership transfer asking and your personal account becomes a work or schoolhouse business relationship, the pending owner tin't accept the asking.
  • You can cancel the request.
  • The pending owner can decline the asking.

Related articles

  • Share files from Google Bulldoze
  • Terminate or change how a file is shared
  • Share folders in Google Drive
  • Discover files shared with you

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