hi everybody welcome back my name is mr. Campbell from mr. Campbell rocks today I'm going to show
you how to copy a Google Drive folder so that you can share that with anybody else in your building
or anybody that's coming into your building without giving them permissions and you still
own the original folder or however you want to do this if you've got some project management
where you have to recopy folders you could do that as well so there's a couple different ways
to do that one of them I couldn't get to work it's probably because of the permissions in our
district where I don't have that level the easiest way is the copy folder it's a google extension or
google add-on you'll give it permissions you'll basically authorize those permissions in your
Google Drive you can follow the instructions here if for whatever reason this doesn't work because
your domain right our domain right mine is at Jordan District does not allow you to use this
add-on you can go to G suite tips and they have a built in tool that you could use as well so that's
the method that we're gonna use today so when you go to G suite tips you'll click on Tools and then
go down to copy folder and I will actually put this in the link in the YouTube video below so
you're just go in there I've already actually given it permission that takes a few minutes
I just didn't want to waste your time with that so we're gonna click on our source folder that's
the folder that we want to copy obviously the destination folder is where we want it to end
up and then the new name of the folder so once I click here it's gonna browse my drive my Google
Drive the folder that I want to copy is we're just going to do this one right here the safe
Beauty cases so it's gonna go click through and basically search through my drive it'll pull up
a new window I'm tellin what its gonna do before it does it while we're waiting here for the little
blue circle to go and obviously when you copy the new folder maybe not obviously but all of
the same permissions and files and access will be copied as well so if you've shared this file
or this folder with somebody they will still have permissions on the copied folder so you'll
need to go back in and edit those so I'm moving to a new school so I've actually cleaned up my
my Google Drive over the past couple weeks so we click on previous school years we're gonna go to
our most recent school year and then we are going to go down to safe UT classes now the great thing
about this tool is that will automatically stop at the folder level so if I were to go into folder
level and pull up you know folders it wouldn't allow me to grab those those just those images
that are in this folder so we're gonna click select there and we're just actually gonna have
it go in my drive and we'll just go here and we'll just have previous school so you can see
it when we're done we're gonna click select and what you'll notice here is it says copy of safe
UT cases it's just basically as if you copied a document or a form or something like that when
we click on the preview it's gonna pull up the information here so it's gonna say okay what are
the files that we're copying where we're gonna copy all of these PNG so these are screenshots
of these cases that we have that are sent to us from I won't explain all that doesn't matter
then we'll hit go so takes just a minute couple minutes and you can see the progress bar across
the top it'll it'll share all the files one of one one of two 103 bla bla bla bla bla so once
everything is done you'll notice that all of the hierarchy was there as well so all of the files
that you have in there will copy over so if it's a PNG if it's an image if it's an Excel document
if it's a Word document if it's a PDF all of those we'll go over and go over to your drive so
when I go back over to Drive what I should see is right here you'll see that was last updated by me
if I left click on it and click on share you'll see that it'll have the sharing permissions and
you'll notice here that I'm the only one on here because these are just the files that I work on
so again this has been a quick tutorial on how to copy files or copy folders in Google Drive once
the folder is then copied you could share that with anybody else and then remove that and then
or make them the owner and then they would have a copy of that it's an easy way it just took me a
minute and a half what would otherwise if I did it individually by file take me hours and hours and
hours especially if you have a ton of work that you're doing again my name is mr. Campbell you
can visit my website at mr. Campbell com I love you I appreciate you I am glad that you're here