How do I Share My Entire Google Drive?

Can I Share My Whole Google Drive with Someone?

Recently, many people register multiple Google Drive accounts due to any possible reason. One of the most common reasons is a storage space issue. While having multiple accounts, users may need to share documents on Google Drive.

Sometimes, in order to manage data in a proper way, users think of sharing it with other accounts and deleting it from this account. However, the main question is how to share your Google Drive storage with another account or how to share an entire Google Drive. Don't worry, you can not only share files between Google Drive accounts but also share the whole Google Drive in this article.

In order to know all possible methods of doing the same, please go to the section below.

How to Share Entire Google Drive Automatically

If you want to share whole data from one Google Drive to another at once, no manual method works effectively. You are suggested to turn to a professional tool that can help you share the whole Google Drive automatically. If you need a recommendation, you can take CBackup into consideration.

CBackup is a professional cloud backup service that offers cloud to cloud backup and sync services for free, letting users share complete Google Drive with another account at once quickly and completely by transferring data from one account to another. In addition, if users want to copy only selective data to another account, this tool can also help to achieve it easily. After backing up, you can see all other files in both accounts.

You can check the step-by-step tutorial below to learn how to share my entire Google Drive with someone via CBackup:

1. Please download CBackup desktop app. Create a new CBackup account freely and sign in.

2. Click Storage on the left side, then choose Google Drive and hit Authorize Now. Then follow the on-screen guide to allow CBackup to access your cloud storage.

3. Click on the Sync tab on the left side, and then choose Sync Public Cloud to Public Cloud. Then click the New Task button to create your sync task in the pop-up window.

4. Name your task, and click Add Source button to add the entire Google Drive, click Add Destination button to add another Google Drive account as the destination.

5. Tap the Settings button, Tick Set a backup schedule for automated sync at the Scheduler tab, choose One time only, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly and click OK to set up a scheduled and automatic task.

6. Click Start Sync to automatically share entire Google Drive to another Google Drive account.

How to Share Entire Google Drive Manually: 3 Ways

In addition to being able to share all files with Google Drive through a simple third-party tool, users can also share files to other accounts in three ways on the Google Drive website. Although the following process is more tedious than the automatic sync method provided by CBackup. If you're interested, read on to learn how to share an entire folder on Google Drive in detail.

Way 1. Share the Entire Google Drive with Share Option

In order to share entire Google Drive to another Google Drive, there is one Share option available in Google Drive. You need to choose all files and folders from Google Drive and then choose Share option for each folder to complete the process successfully. The detailed steps of how to share a Google Drive are shown below:

1. Log in to your old Google Drive account. Select all files/folders and right-click the Share button.

2. Invite another account as the receiver. Click on Advanced. Under Sharing settings, change the permission to Is owner and click the Send button to wait for the process to complete.

3. Log in to your another account, and you will find these files under My Drive.

Besides, if you cannot do this, you could move all your Google Drive files and folder to a folder, called it My Entire Google Drive.

Then right-click My Entire Google Drive, and click Share.

And follow the above steps to share the entire Google Drive easily.

Way 2. Share My Entire Google Drive via Direct Link Creator

Besides, you could create links for all Google Drive files and folders, and share these links with others, and then they can download all Google Drive folders and files. This way is another kind of sharing entire Google Drive. 

1. You have to add Direct Link Creator app first to Google Chrome.

2. Then log in to your Google Drive account. Right-click My Drive button, Choose More > Direct Link Creator (Share, Unshare).

3. Click Select files from Google Drive button.

4. Tap triangle icon and then select All file types.

5. Then choose all the Google Drive files, and click Select.

6. Now, click Share All and Get Direct Links button to get all Google Drive file links.

Share all these direct links to others and it will share entire Google Drive files. But this way is not the ideal solution, because you have to share all these links.

Way 3. Share the Whole Google Drive via Download and Upload

You can try one more thing also to share whole Google Drive at once with another domain or account. Simply, download all data on the local machine from one Google Drive and upload it to another Google Drive account. It is one of the widely used manual methods to share entire Google Drive.

1. Log in your old Google Drive account.

2. Create a new folder to store all files under the root directory of your Google Drive. Collect all the files and put them in a new folder.

3. Right-click the new folder, click Download button and wait for the process to complete.

4. Open your another account in which you want to keep those files. When the home page opens up, click on the My Drive icon and upload files and folder to your other Google Drive account.

The Limitations of Manually Ways

No doubt you can share Google Drive storage using manual methods discussed above. But, there are various limitations that a user might face while using them:

• You need to manually choose each item he or she wants to export.

• In order to share data from Shared With Me or Trash Folder of Google Drive, you need to perform whole manual process for each folder separately.

• Both the manual solutions are quite lengthy and time-consuming in the case of large amount of data.

• Incremental migration is not possible by default in any manual approach discussed above.

• Sharing entire data of Google Drive at once is not possible manually.

Bonus Tip: How to Expand Your Google Drive Space for Free

As mentioned in the contents above, many people register multiple Google Drive accounts and have to share files among accounts for the storage space issue. Actually, if you register multiple Google Drive for the storage issue and be tired of managing files among accounts, you can merge Google Drive accounts directly to expand your backup space for free.

To achieve this goal, you can rely on CBackup too. CBackup offers a useful feature called combine cloud storage that can help you combine the free or idle storage space in each Google Drive accounts into a huge, even unlimited space. What's more, this feature is also free and you can download the CBackup desktop app to enjoy this feature, and backup your computer to Google Drive with ease.

1. Please add enough Google Drive accounts to CBackup according to the above steps under My Storage.

2. After adding, all your Google Drive accounts are listed here. Click the Storage icon on the left side, then click + Add Combined Cloud option.

4. Tick the box next to the cloud storage account that you want to combine. After checking, click on Next > Combine. 

Then, you will have a Combined Cloud in your clouds list. You can choose the Combined Cloud as the backup destination to enjoy huge backup space by clicking Backup > Backup PC to Combined Cloud.

You can enjoy more convenience for free with CBackup:

• If your cloud storage account is short of free space, you can backup your files to CBackup Cloud, which provides 10GB backup space for each CBackup user for free.

• It automatically syncs or backs up local files to the cloud to prevent data loss and corruption caused by various accidents, and you can automatically restore backed-up files to local at any time.

• Both the web app and desktop app support cloud to cloud backup services, you can backup one cloud drive to another to strengthen the security of data in the cloud.

• You can enjoy the most affordable and thoughtful cloud backup space subscription plan in the market at the lowest price.

Final Words

That’s all about how to share entire Google Drive, and you can choose a way to follow it. But if you want to save time and effort, you are suggested to share entire Google Drive automatically with CBackup. And this way is easy to follow because CBackup has a clear interface and user-friendly design, so, you can work it out quickly even for the first time.

If you need more free storage of Google Drive but don't want to manage multiple accounts at the same time, you can also rely on CBackup to combine the storage of each account into one, and you can combine cloud storage belonging to one or different cloud storage on one interface.