Private shared drive

[Paul_S]

Hi people! can anybody help me?

I want to copy a team drive shared with me, the left one would be the following:

My team drive: A

Another person's private shared drive with me: B

I would like to clone copy the contents of drive B and put it in my drive A.

remembering that I am not the owner of drive B. Is it possible to do this using the server side copy?

thanks!

[Animosity022]

@Paul_S

remembering that I am not the owner of drive B. Is it possible to do this using the server side copy?

No, you can't server side.

[Paul_S]

but I'm added to shared drive B. Wouldn't it work?

[Animosity022]

Check out:

Google team drive server side copy

I think that is about how to set up a personal API key. That is not relevant to this problem. Any API key from any account can be used as long as it is authorized to access the data. What is important in this situation is that the Teamdrive user who has write-access to destination also has read-access to source. Otherwise there is no way for that user to ask the Google server to copy that data. When you do it via your own PC it does not matter if the different places use different accounts wi…