Google Drive to Dropbox Migration without Download & Upload

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• User Cases: How to Migrate Google Drive to Dropbox?
• How to Perform Google Drive to Dropbox Migration in 2 Ways
  ► Solution 1: Transfer from Google Drive to Dropbox with Google Takeout
  ► Solution 2: Perform Google Drive to Dropbox Migration Automatically
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User Cases: How to Migrate Google Drive to Dropbox?

Like these users mentioned in the cases, users sometimes need to migrate from Google Drive to Dropbox for different reasons and you might be one of them. But neither Google Drive nor Dropbox allows it to directly transfer to the other clouds. 

Under such a circumstance, how to directly realize migration has been a common problem. So is it impossible to move Google Drive to Dropbox without downloading and uploading? This article provides 2 feasible ways to help you transfer all files from Google Drive to Dropbox.

How to Perform Google Drive to Dropbox Migration in 2 Ways

Besides uploading and downloading, there are two more efficient ways to transfer files from Google Drive to Dropbox. One is to use Google Takeout, and the other is to use a third-party cloud file transfer tool --- MultCloud.

Solution 1: Transfer from Google Drive to Dropbox with Google Takeout

If you want to move all your Google Drive data to Dropbox at once, you can use Google Takeout to transfer. To do this, you can follow these steps:

Step 1. Go to Google Takeout, click "Deselect All" and tick the checkbox to the right of "Drive", then click "Next".

Step 2. Select "Add to Dropbox" as the delivery method.
Step 3. Scroll down to "Link account and create export" and click it.

Step 4. You will then be asked to access your Dropbox folder, please choose "Allow". After the export process, you can go to Dropbox and view the archive. 

This method is more suitable for the one-time transfer of Google Drive data to Dropbox. For example, you can use this method when you need to delete your Google Drive account and switch to Dropbox. If you need to transfer data to Dropbox regularly and uninterruptedly, you can use a multiple cloud storage manager called MultCloud.

Solution 2: Perform Google Drive to Dropbox Migration Automatically

As a professional and secure multiple cloud storage management tool, MultCloud supports more than 30 mainstream cloud drives which include Google Drive, Dropbox, MEGA, pCloud, OneDrive, Google Photos, Amazon Drive, even NAS, WebDav, FTP/SFTP, Shared with me and Shared Drive, so you can manage multiple cloud storage accounts in the same interface.

In addition, MultCloud supports a variety of useful functions such as Cloud Transfer, Team Transfer, Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, and Remote Upload. With this tool, cloud-to-cloud transfer, sync, backup can be easily achieved. To automatically transfer data from Google Drive to Dropbox, you need to use the Cloud Transfer feature.

There is a brief instruction to show you how to perform the task in just 3 steps.

Step 1. Sign Up. You need to sign up first. And, you can also create a temporary account by clicking "Try without signing up" if you want to experience the functions of this tool in advance.

 Step 2. Add Clouds. Click on the "Add Cloud" icon and add Google Drive and Dropbox to MultCloud.

Step 3. Create a Google Drive to Dropbox Migration Task. Click on the "Cloud Transfer" icon and select Google Drive as the source and Dropbox as the destination. Then click on "Transfer Now" to complete the operation.

Summary

With the above two methods, you can easily realize Google Drive to Dropbox migration. In the process of using MultCloud, you not only can effectively realize cloud to cloud migration but also can realize cloud to cloud sync and backup, even remote upload.