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Outline Team Drive Structure

Due to As mentioned earlier, with Migrating from SAMBA to Google Team Drive not supporting Folder copying, you should outline the folder structure that you will need to create once the Team Drive is first created to mimic what you have in SAMBA, keeping in mind that you are only covering the folders that should be accessed with the same permissions through outwhen you are copying your data from SAMBA to the Team Drive, you have to take into consideration what folders have special access requirements.

If you have folders that should be accessed a different way, as mentioned above, you will have to consider making that a separate Team Drive and not include that folder structure within the Team Drive you are working on.

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IE: If the department was CSI and the function of the Team Drive as General, calling it CSI General would help, especially if you are a cross department user, easier to identify which Department the Team Drive belongs to.

Create the Folder Structure

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Copy Files/Folders to Team Drive

You can now copy folders into the Team Drive, but please make sure to follow your Migrating from SAMBA to Google Team Drive.

Copy Files to Team Drive

Once the Folder Structure is done, you can copy your files from SAMBA into your Team Drive.

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Only copy the Files, not the folders, into Team Drive.

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as noted above, only copying the Folders that should be in the Team Drive with the permissions allowable.

Optional Transfer

ECI can work on transferring the SAMBA share information to Google Team Drive, however, the process can take up to a couple of weeks depending on the amount of data is in the SAMBA share.