recipe-transfer-file-ownership

SKILL.md

Transfer ownership of Google Drive files between users with a two-step workflow.

Requires the gws-drive skill and gws binary to execute

Lists files owned by a specific user, then transfers ownership to a new owner via the Google Drive permissions API

Ownership transfer is irreversible without the new owner's cooperation

Transfer File Ownership

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-drive

Transfer ownership of Google Drive files from one user to another.

[!CAUTION]
Transferring ownership is irreversible without the new owner's cooperation.

Steps

List files owned by the user: gws drive files list --params '{"q": "'\''user@company.com'\'' in owners"}'

Transfer ownership: gws drive permissions create --params '{"fileId": "FILE_ID", "transferOwnership": true}' --json '{"role": "owner", "type": "user", "emailAddress": "newowner@company.com"}'