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OneDrive is the cloud storing service which is used to store data, photos, documents, videos, spreadsheets and so on. However, due to the decrease in free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB, many users tend to transfer files from OneDrive to Google Drive which still provides 15 GB free storage for users. Well, how to copy files from OneDrive to Google Drive without any file corruption or data loss? Below are Three Methods to Move Files from OneDrive to Google Drive. Read this post and you will find how to migrate data from OneDrive to Google Drive safely.
Outlines:
Below are 4 steps introduced to move files from OneDrive to Google Drive.
Step 1. Visit OneDrive by opening the link of https://onedrive.live.com/and sign in. If you don't have an account, sign up first.
Step 2. Choose your files that you want to transfer from your OneDrive to Google Drive, click the Download button and store it to the local drive.
Step 3. Visit Google Drive by opening the link of https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive and sign in.
Step 4. Click My Drive, choose Upload files to select downloaded files from OneDrive to Google Drive, and wait for a while until the process is fully completed.
Or you can click New button, and select File upload or Folder upload to move files from OneDrive to Google Drive account. The results are the same.
If you complete the above 4 steps, you will succeed in transferring files from OneDrive to Google Drive. This way is uncomplicated and easy for users to operate.
Here is another way to move OneDrive files to Google Drive if you have the OneDrive desktop application.
Step 1. Set up OneDrive on the desktop on Windows. (Download address: https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/download/. Sign in with your account after you have downloaded it.)
Step 2. Login to your Google Drive account.
Step 3. Select the data that you need to move from OneDrive to Google Drive.
Step 4. Drag and drop these files or folders from OneDrive to Google Drive, and wait for the process to complete.
When the process is completed, a tip will remind you that your files upload complete.
You can also resort to the third party tool to migrate files from OneDrive to Google Drive for free, such as MultCloud. However, its free version has limited permissions, such as 50GB data traffic/month and only 2 synchronization modes.
Step 1. Log in with your Email/Temp account name and Password. Or you can sign up immediately.
Step 2. Add OneDrive account and Google Drive to MultCloud.
Step 3. Click OneDrive, select the files that you want to copy through Cloud Explorer, right-click your mouse and select Copy to.
Step 4. Select Google Drive as the destination location of Copy to, click Transfer button, and then wait for some while until the process is fully completed.
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