G Suite for Government and G Suite for Education accounts can change ownership of any file owned by the current user, including uploaded/synced files suchs as PDFs.
Other Google Accounts such as G Suite for Business or Personal Google Accounts can only transfer ownership of Google files (Docs, Sheets, Sildes, Forms, Drawings, My Maps, and folders).
NOTE: Ownership can only be transferred to members of the same G Suite or Google domain. Ex. @gmail.com can only transfer to other @gmail.com addresses.
NOTE: The Google Drive API does not allow suppressing notifications for change of ownership if the if the new owner does not already have access to the file. However, if the new owner already has access to the file, upgrading their permissions to ownership will not generate a notification.
git clone https://github.com/davidstrauss/google-drive-recursive-ownership
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
pip install nose tornado oauth2client
If transfer.py is contained in a folder listed in your system's PATH this can be run from anywhere. Otherwise it needs to be run from the directory where transfer.py is located.
python transfer.py PATH-PREFIX NEW-OWNER-EMAIL SHOW-ALREADY-OWNER
PATH-PREFIXassumes use of "/" or "" as appropriate for your operating system.SHOW-ALREADY-OWNER"true"|"false" (defaulttrue) to hide feedback for files already set correctly
Windows Example:
python transfer.py "Folder 1\Folder 2\Folder 3" [email protected] true
Mac/Linux Example:
python transfer.py "Folder 1/Folder 2/Folder 3" [email protected] false
If you go to your Google developers console you should see a section titled OAuth 2.0 client IDs. Click on an entry in that list, and you will see a number of fields, including Client secret.
If you have not yet created credentials, click the Create credentials button, and follow the instructions to create new credentials, and then follow the steps outlined above to find the Client secret.
Credentials --> OAuth Client ID --> Other --> "Name it" --> Download JSON.