moving files and folders to shared drives in Google Workspace

For non-Admin users to move entire folders to Shared Drives in Google Workspace (formerly GSuite), the admin has to set suitable permissions - from admin.google.com, Admin Roles -> Create new role, call it something like Shared Drive Admin or whatever, and give that role the permission under Services > Drive and Docs > Settings > Move any file or folder into shared drives

After that, assign this admin role to whichever user needs it. Then, that user can drag and drop folders also into shared drives as below. (If this is not done, only files can be dragged and dropped into shared drives, folders have to be manually re-created.)

Dragging and dropping files from My Drive to a Shared Drive - walkthrough video below - 

This could be a good option if some users on Google Workspace are running out of disk space due to files in Drive. Another option would be to move the files to another google account. This video's second half shows how to transfer files from one account to another using MultCloud. The first part of the video is inaccurate, since the file owner is not changed even if moved from Shared with Me to another folder. If not using MultCloud, the method to transfer a file from one account to another is:

1. Share the file from account1 with account2 as Editor.
2. Choose to make account2 the owner by clicking the "Make Owner" option as in the screenshot below.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Account2 gets an email saying that this item appears in My Drive of account2
4. Move file to suitable folder by signing in with account2

This is quite cumbersome, so I must try out MultCloud and see if it makes things easier.

 

Edit 17 Jun 2022 - There is another tool called Drive Migrator also,

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drive-migrator/nakklajdcijlkfagghhcdofbgbhddoed?hl=en