How do you move Google Drive folders from one account to another? [duplicate]

Question

I have a domain/email [email protected] with 2 folders, photos and documents, and I would like to completely delete this domain from my domain registrar, and get rid of the old email address [email protected], and have everything now live under [email protected], in the Google Drive.

Posts online say to "share" your photos from the old account to the new account. But this results in them only showing under the "shared with me" tab in the new domain's Google Drive. I can drag the folder to the regular folder section, but then it shows it as a "linked folder" icon. I would like for the files to literally be copied over to the new account. I can't upload them as it already took me 3 months 8 hours a day to upload all my high-res photos from external hard drives, I don't want to do that all over again.

How can I properly do this so when I delete my old account it won't delete the folders/files? I don't like how sharing is feeling, it doesn't seem right. How do I do this properly?

Answer 1

UPDATED ANSWER

Following OP's comment:

This does not work: Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to [email protected]. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same organization as the current owner.

You may find a solution based on Move files to shared drives

When you move a file to a shared drive, the team becomes the owner of the file.

Please try the following

1. Create a new Shared Drive inside your new [email protected] domain.
2. Add the old owner of your old [email protected] files/folders as a member to the created Shared Drive.
3. Log-in to your old [email protected] account and move files to the Shared Drive.
4. Log-out and log-in your new account.
5. Find the files inside your new [email protected] account Shared Drive :)

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Move content to a shared drive
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Original answer

Please follow these steps

1. Log-in to your [email protected] account
2. Choose and right click on your folder

3. Share it with your new [email protected] account by making it an editor. Press done.

4. Following that, right click again and change the option from editor to owner.

5. Log-out from your [email protected] account and log-in to your [email protected] account.
6. Find and enjoy the folder in the drive of your new [email protected] account :)

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If you want to test it first, create a new test-folder in your old account and follow the above steps.
After following these steps your test-folder will "disappear" from the old account and re-appear in your new account