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Cloud Computing has become very popular nowadays and is helping everyone who has access to the Internet. Now, users upload their useful files on cloud platforms rather than saving them on a hard drive as it allows them to access their required data whenever or wherever they want. There are several cloud platforms that are solely used to store and retrieve files. Among two cloud service providers, two tech giants boast of getting the maximum number of users – Google and Microsoft. They provide Google Drive (Google Workspace) and OneDrive (Office 365), respectively.
Google offers 15 GB of free space to each user. These 15 GB is shared between all the Google-based applications, including Google Drive. On the other hand, Microsoft has OneDrive that provides a free 5 GB of space, and you can upload individual files or entire folders to it. As Google and Microsoft are the two biggest tech companies, most users use these platforms.
When users are using Google Drive and OneDrive at the same time, they may need to transfer their files and folders from one platform to another. Therefore, we may need to find some transfer methods to sync both platforms and make a bridge to migrate the data easily.
When the number and size of files are low, you can easily download data from Google Drive and upload it on OneDrive.
This is the simplest method that is feasible when the data is less and the network speed is fast. When there is a large amount of data, then you should not go for it.
Google Takeout is a special service of Google that can export data as an offline file directly to OneDrive. Follow the steps-
You can open the zipped file and check all the contents.
Microsoft Flow provides you some templates that you can choose to synchronize data between OneDrive and Google Drive.
When you create a synchronization between Google Drive and OneDrive, you have to keep an eye on the connection that it does not break or any folders are not stuck while syncing. However, if you are planning to migrate OneDrive to Google Drive or from Google Drive to OneDrive, you need to use Kernel Migrator for SharePoint; SharePoint Migration tool.
The software will migrate the data between the cloud platforms of Google and Microsoft, i.e., Google Drive and OneDrive. For selective migrations, the software can migrate the data after applying the proper filter and migrating the permissions. The software can also schedule the migration at an appropriate time. You can easily add both Google Drive and OneDrive for Business account and migrate unlimited amount of data between them.
I never knew about Google Takeout and this blog has helped me in syncing Google Drive with Takeout. Excellent efforts are seen in the blog. Great!
Syncing Google Drive with OneDrive is going to create wonders if you are a constant cloud user. It will make sharing easier.