You might think it’s a great offer& but you need to note that all your files on Google Drive& Gmail& and Google Images share this space. It offers a free capacity of 15 GB for storing data to its users. Google must have their reasons for this behavior, but it’s very confusing from a user’s perspective, and reduces the usability of Drive.Google Drive is a storage device. You cannot, for example, change the ownership of an image file. Click for full-size image.Īlso, the above method is only applicable to Google file types. Google Drive will ask you for a confirmation and once you click Yes, the file’s ownership will be transferred.īe careful while doing this though, because once you transfer the ownership of a file to somebody else, you will no longer be able to change it back unless that person does it for you. To change the owner of such a file, click the Pen icon against the name of the person you want to make the owner and select the “Is Owner” option from the drop-down menu and click Save Changes.
Google does allow you to change the owner of a file, if the file in question is a Google document, i.e., a Google doc, Google spreadsheet or a slide. The current owner of the file has the label “Is owner” to the right of their name:Īdvanced sharing settings dialog showing current owner. In the resulting dialog box, click the “Advanced” link. You can view the ownership of any file by right-clicking it and selecting “Share”. Thus, no matter where you upload a file, you can never upload more data than your own account allowance. And when you upload a file, obviously, you are assumed to be the owner of the uploaded file. Their size would count against the storage quota of the file owner irrespective of the upload location. Where those files are actually stored, does not matter. Google Drive calculates storage quotas based on the ownership of files.
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