Copying files and folders from a personal Google Drive to a Shared Google Drive (aka Team Drives) using Google Apps Script

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Copying files and folders from a personal Google Drive to a Shared Google Drive (aka Team Drives) using Google Apps Script

1. Copy app script
2. In setting enable Show appscript.json ...
3. Add "oauthScopes": ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive"] on the end of the appscript.json file.
4. Edit sourceFolderId and targetSharedDriveId based on your Google Drive web app URL links
   • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/dfsfsdt453rfds45341243-53425 -> dfsfsdt453rfds45341243-53425

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35028119/driveapp-getfolderbyid-results-in-you-do-not-have-permission-error

appscript.json

{
  "timeZone": "Europe/London",
  "dependencies": {
  },
  "exceptionLogging": "STACKDRIVER",
  "runtimeVersion": "V8",
  "oauthScopes": ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive"]
}

CopyGoogleSharedDrive.gs

/**
 * Copying files and folders from a personal Google Drive to a Shared Google Drive (aka Team Drives) using Google Apps Script
 * Author: Jakub Andrýsek + https://stackoverflow.com/users/8199076/azmol
 * Website: https://kubaandrysek.cz
 * Email: email@kubaandrysek.cz
 * GitHub: https://github.com/JakubAndrysek
 * License: MIT
 * File: https://gist.github.com/JakubAndrysek/d3c16b85bf34eaca18d33df471104dd5
 */

function copyDriveStructure() {
  var sourceFolderId = 'dfsfsdt453rfds45341243-53425-random-ID'; // update ID
  var targetSharedDriveId = 'vdsf7fds98dfs-7dsf78dfs-random-ID'; // update ID

  var sourceFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById(sourceFolderId);
  var targetDrive = DriveApp.getFolderById(targetSharedDriveId);

  // copyFolder(sourceFolder, targetDrive, false); // Copy the entire folder - including files
  copyFolder(sourceFolder, targetDrive, true);  // Only print folders and files
}

function copyFolder(sourceFolder, targetFolder, onlyPrintFiles = true) {
  // Copy the folders
  if (onlyPrintFiles) {
    Logger.log('Only print file names');
  }

  var sourceSubfolders = sourceFolder.getFolders();
  while (sourceSubfolders.hasNext()) {
    var sourceSubfolder = sourceSubfolders.next();
    Logger.log(`Creating folder: ${sourceSubfolder.getName()}`)
    if (!onlyPrintFiles) {
      var newFolder = targetFolder.createFolder(sourceSubfolder.getName());
      // Copy the files
      copyAllFilesInFolder(sourceSubfolder, newFolder, onlyPrintFiles);
    }
    copyFolder(sourceSubfolder, newFolder);  // Recursive call for subfolders
  }
}

function copyAllFilesInFolder(
    sourceFolder, targetFolder, onlyPrintFiles = true) {
  var sourceFiles = sourceFolder.getFiles();
  while (sourceFiles.hasNext()) {
    var sourceFile = sourceFiles.next();
    Logger.log(`- adding file: ${sourceFile.getName()}`)
    if (!onlyPrintFiles) {
      sourceFile.makeCopy(sourceFile.getName(), targetFolder);
    }
  }
}

function copyFolder(sourceFolder, targetFolder, onlyPrintFiles = true) {
// Copy the folders
if (onlyPrintFiles) {
Logger.log('Only print file names');
}
copyAllFilesInFolder(sourceSubfolder, newFolder, onlyPrintFiles);
var sourceSubfolders = sourceFolder.getFolders();
while (sourceSubfolders.hasNext()) {
var sourceSubfolder = sourceSubfolders.next();
Logger.log(Creating folder: ${sourceSubfolder.getName()})
var newFolder = targetFolder.createFolder(sourceSubfolder.getName());
copyFolder(sourceSubfolder, newFolder, onlyPrintFiles); // Recursive call for subfolders
}
}