How do I move files from Google Drive to OneDrive?

There is an increasing number of cloud drive services in the market. You might use more than one cloud drive during your daily life and work. Among all cloud services, Google Drive and OneDrive are regarded as the two best online storage for files.

Maybe you have used the two cloud drive services. But now you want to move files from Google Drive to OneDrive. Why migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive? There might be some reasons for it:

• OneDrive is provided by Microsoft, which means it can work perfectly with Office 365 services. This can be quite advantage if you want to choose a cloud service for your work data.
• You want to save data on both cloud drives. In this way, you can share your data with users from different cloud drive platforms, which can help you collaborate with others better.

Since you will have a lot of files and other data to migrate, a Google Drive to OneDrive migration mover is the best solution for you. If you use a professional cloud mover, it will save you much time and effort to perform Google Drive migrate to OneDrive.

Detailed guidelines for 2 Google Drive to OneDrive migration movers

Here, we provide 2 different migration movers to help you transfer Google Drive to OneDrive effectively. If you want to perform the migration task regularly and automatically, just go to try the first method directly.

Guideline 1. Migrate Google Drive to OneDrive via CBackup for free

If you have a lot of files and other types of data to migrate from Google Drive to OneDrive, it will cost you much time to download and upload manually. Thus, we highly recommend you a Google Drive to OneDrive migration tool for free- CBackup.

CBackup is a professional cloud service that provides many free backup and sync features. Among all the functions, the cloud to cloud sync feature can help you finish migrating from Google Drive to OneDrive without any effort.

Let’s see what advantages CBackup will bring to you if you use it to perform the migration task:

Instead of downloading and uploading your data on different platforms, CBackup allows you to migrate data from one cloud drive account to another account on one interface directly.

During the migration process, there is no limitation on transferring speed and file size, which totally depends on your network connection.

CBackup allows you to migrate any type of data. For example, you can move folders from Google Drive to OneDrive, and other kinds of data like texts, pictures, programs, hard drives, and even the whole computer.

You can migrate data between two cloud drive accounts from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.

CBackup allows you to migrate data selectively. You can choose certain files to transfer.

Follow the easy steps here, and you can migrate data from Google Drive to OneDrive easily:

1. Go to the CBackup page. Create a CBackup account and log into CBackup Dashboard.

2. Choose the My Storage tab, and click on the + Add Cloud button to add your Google Drive account and OneDrive account in turn.

3. Next, click on the Sync Tasks tab, and press the New Task button to create a new migration task from Google Drive to OneDrive.

4. Next, press the Add Source button to choose any data from Google Drive, and press the Add Destination button to choose a folder in your OneDrive account.

5. After the above, click on the Start Sync button to use this mover for Google Drive to OneDrive.

There are some other effective features in CBackup that you can take advantage of.

Backup or sync PC to public cloud: In CBackup, you can choose data from your computer to backup or sync to public cloud directly.

Combine cloud storage: You can get more cloud storage space by merging unlimited cloud accounts into one combined cloud with larger cloud storage space.

Free cloud storage: CBackup gives each free account 10GB of cloud storage in CBackup Cloud. You can back up files to it and use it as your cloud drive.

Guideline 2. Migrate Google Drive to OneDrive with Google Takeout

If you want to perform migration tasks with Google's built-in tool, this migration mover - Google Takeout is suitable for you. Here is the easy guideline to use it to perform G Drive to OneDrive migration:

1. Navigate to the Google Takeout page. First, choose Deselect all.

2. Tick the box next to the Drive option. And click on Next step at the bottom of the page.

3. Under Delivery method, click on Add to OneDrive.

4. Finally, press Link accounts and create export. Then you need to log into your OneDrive account and Google Drive account.

After the migration process finishes, you can go to your OneDrive account to see all the data from Google Drive.

How to migrate data from Google Drive to OneDrive manually

In addition to using migration mover to convert Google Drive to OneDrive, you can also select the manual method to do it. Sometimes you have a few files to migrate, then you can do as follows:

1. Go to the Google Drive website and log into your account.

2. In the My Drive section, locate your file or folder and right-click on it. Choose Download on the pop-up menu.

3. Next, turn to the OneDrive web page. Click on the Upload icon to choose your file or folder to upload.

Tip: Get more free OneDrive cloud storage

As we all know, OneDrive only provides 5GB OneDrive free storage for each account. If you want to migrate a number of files and data from Google Drive to OneDrive, the cloud storage will be used up in a short time.

For this, you can use the combine cloud storage feature in CBackup to expand your OneDrive cloud storage for free. Here are the easy steps to merge your multiple cloud drive accounts:

1. You need to download and install the CBackup desktop application. Run it to log into your CBackup account.

2. Go to the Storage part, and you can choose different cloud drives to Authorize Now. You can add as many accounts as you have to CBackup.

3. In Storage, press + Add Combined Cloud.

4. Check the cloud storage accounts that you want to merge, and then click on Next. They can come from the same cloud drive platform or different platforms.

5. You can determine the order of your cloud drive accounts, then choose Combine.

Now, you have a Combined Cloud with larger cloud storage. You can go to Backup to choose Backup PC to Combined Cloud to save your computer data in it.

Written in the end

Here we have introduced 2 Google Drive to OneDrive migration movers to you in detail. According to your need, you can choose one for your data. But the free cloud service called CBackup can help you migrate data selectively and quickly.