Feature • Last updated: July 18, 2026

Google Drive Migration Tool for Windows

Migrate a Google Drive to another Google account, OneDrive, Dropbox, a NAS or your PC - directly, from a desktop app, with scheduling for staged moves and no third-party servers touching your files.

"Migrate Google Drive" hides half a dozen different jobs: a graduating student saving a school Drive before the account closes, a switcher moving to the OneDrive storage bundled with Microsoft 365, someone consolidating three part-full Drives into one, a business pulling its files onto its own NAS. Google's own answer is Takeout - a zip-export of everything, delivered in multi-gigabyte chunks for you to unpack and re-upload somewhere. It works, once, painfully.

FTPie approaches it as a file manager: connect the source Drive and the destination - whatever that destination is - and move files directly between them, with the transfer engine handling resume, retries and parallelism.

One tool, every migration direction

Google account → Google account

Both Drives connected simultaneously (multiple accounts per service is built in) - drag between panes. Google files stay native.

Google Drive → OneDrive or Dropbox

Cross-provider moves with Docs/Sheets exported to Office formats in transit. Step-by-step: OneDrive guide, Dropbox guide.

Google Drive → NAS / FTP / your PC

Off the cloud entirely: Synology or QNAP over SMB, any server over SFTP/FTP, or a local drive - same drag, same queue.

Anything → Google Drive

Migrations run the other way too - consolidate a Dropbox, an old FTP host and a desktop folder into one Drive.

How a migration runs

  1. Connect the source and destination accounts (OAuth sign-in; tokens stay on your PC).
  2. Open them side by side in the dual-pane view and drag the folders across - the queue transfers recursively with chunk-level resume and automatic retries.
  3. For big or gradual moves, create a scheduled transfer: every night it picks up whatever's new at the source and lands it at the destination. Migrate at your own pace, then switch over.
  4. Verify item counts on the destination, re-share what needs sharing, and only then empty the source.

Why desktop-based migration beats a transfer website

  • Privacy: your files move between you and the providers under your own credentials - never through a migration service's cloud, never readable by a middleman. (The web-service model is compared honestly here.)
  • No quota meter: web services meter transferred gigabytes because the data flows through their servers. FTPie has nothing to meter.
  • Resume & retries at chunk level - a blinked connection doesn't restart a 40 GB folder.
  • Scheduling built in - staged migrations and post-migration recurring copies use the same mechanism, not a separate subscription tier.

Answers to the usual questions

Can I migrate between two Google accounts?

Yes - FTPie supports multiple accounts per service, so you connect both Google Drives side by side and drag files from one to the other. This is the clean way to move a school or work Drive to a personal one before losing access.

What happens to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides?

Native Google files aren't regular files - when they leave Google's ecosystem they export to Office formats (docx, xlsx, pptx). Moving between two Google accounts keeps them as Google files. Review heavily formatted documents after a cross-provider move, and keep originals until you've verified.

Is there a transfer quota or size limit?

FTPie imposes none - no gigabyte metering, no per-month caps. You're bound only by the providers' own API limits and your connection. Web-based migration services meter your data because it flows through their servers; FTPie's transfers don't.

Do I need a paid plan?

Cloud connections (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox…) are part of Pro - and the 14-day Pro trial is a perfectly legitimate way to run a one-time migration. The Free plan covers FTP/FTPS/SFTP connections.

Is a migration safe to run in one go?

For large Drives, a staged approach is safer: run a scheduled copy that picks up everything new each night, verify counts on the destination, then switch over and delete the source when you're confident. FTPie's scheduling makes the staged pattern a checkbox rather than a project.

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