I was told that Google Drive works differently from ordinary file managers and that it is not possible to change the owner either through the user interface, or using the Drive Google Apps Script service or the Google Drive API
Is this correct?
I was told that Google Drive works differently from ordinary file managers and that it is not possible to change the owner either through the user interface, or using the Drive Google Apps Script service or the Google Drive API
Is this correct?
That's right, in Google Drive, managing the permissions of files and folders in Google Drive works differently than other file managers do.
You can only transfer ownership of files and folders between accounts in the same domain, from mydomain.com to mydomain.com or from gmail.com to gmail.com if you can, but you can not use mydomain. com a gmail.com or vice versa.
You can only transfer ownership of files in Google formats, you can not transfer ownership of "uploaded files" such as images, videos, PDFs, etc.
It is worth mentioning that the files and folders in Google Drive could
have none, one or more parent folders
have elements with different sharing settings, so changes made to the parent folder may not be displayed to children files and folders
In the case of G Suite accounts, the administrator can transfer the files from one account to another.
While using consumer accounts, such as those with domain gmail.com, it is not possible to transfer the uploaded / synchronized files, if it is possible to copy them.
In the case of files in Google format and inter-domain folders, "it could" be possible to copy the files. The "could" instead of "can" is that the owner could have configured one or more of his files to prevent their being copied.