Moving between two Google Drive Shared Drives, while PRESERVING folder IDs

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

So I'm performing a migration where I split up a projects shared drive into year blocked shared drives. Think "All Projects Drive" -> "2015-2019 Projects Drive", "ect...". We have a bespoke project management system that relies on the ids of google drive folders. So I'm hoping to move these folders with their contents into their new drives whilst preserving the IDs of the folders.

Some more specific details:
Projects drive has folders 2001-2024, and within each of those folders are individual folders for each project. The goal is to move that to year blocked drives that are essentially identical except on including their specific year folders.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.66.0

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 23H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.22631.3447 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.22.1
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone move PROJECTS: PROJECTS_2015: --drive-skip-shortcuts --drive-server-side-across-configs

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[PROJECTS]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX

[PROJECTS_2015]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX

[PROJECTS_2020]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

N/A

Note that the result of the command does almost exactly what I want, but the folder IDs are different, meaning it is not copying the folders but is instead recreating the folder structures.

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