[2 Top Ways] How to Move Files between Cloud Storage Services

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• User Case: How to Transfer Files from One Cloud Storage to Another without Downloading?
• Why Move Files between Cloud Storage Services?
• [Easiest] Move Files between Cloud Storage Services without Downloading
• [Common] Move Files between Cloud Storage Services with Download & Upload
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User Case: How to Transfer Files from One Cloud Storage to Another without Downloading?

Why Move Files between Cloud Storage Services?

Nowadays, using cloud services to store data has been a popular thing. Mainstream clouds like Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive are favored by users with advanced features and users may be attracted by different functions provided by different services. In most cases, users will need to transfer data between different services for the following 3 reasons.

In this situation, many users want to transfer files between cloud storage services and you might be one of them. Then, how to move files from one cloud to another? You can get 2 top ways to transfer files between cloud services from this post.

 [Easiest] Move Files between Cloud Storage Services without Downloading

MultCloud, as a free multiple cloud storage manager, provides file transfer from one cloud to another easily. Only with a few clicks, you can select the files and folders you want and transfer them quickly. Not only that, you can also select the whole cloud account to transfer all your files to another cloud storage service automatically. Using this way to manage clouds, your files will be as well organized as if they were stored in the previous cloud storage service.

Currently, MultCloud has 6 main functions, as well as other features, such as copying, copying to, sharing, previewing, and so on. With the help of those functions, you can easily migrate files between clouds, especially "Cloud Transfer".

✔️Fast: Up to 10 threads to help transfer data quickly.
✔️Automatic: Schedule a plan to move files automatically.
✔️Multiple: Can select multiple sources to transfer to the destination.
✔️Offline: Transfer data even if the page or computer is closed.

To have a closer look at how it works, here we take OneDrive and Google Drive transfer as an example.

Before You Do:

1. Sign up first with an Email account and password. Or, you can use your Google, Facebook account or Apple ID to sign in directly.

2. Click on "Add Cloud" button and add OneDrive and Google Drive to MultCloud one by one.

After everything above is ready, you can move files between cloud storage services by using drag & drop, "Copy" or "Copy to" and "Cloud Transfer" features in MultCloud.

Option 1: Drag and Drop Files from One Cloud Storage to Another

Step 1: Open up your OneDrive account in MultCloud.
Step 2: Select the files that you want to move and just drag them from OneDrive to Google Drive.

Option 2: Copy Files from One Cloud Storage to Another

Step 1: Open up your OneDrive account and select the files you want to copy to Google Drive.
Step 2: Right-click "Copy" or "Copy to" to complete the task.

• If you click on the "Copy" icon, then you need to paste the files to Google Drive.
• If you click on the "Copy to" icon, you should choose Google Drive as the destination and click on the "OK" button to directly copy from OneDrive to Google Drive without pasting.

Option 3. Automatically Transfer Files from One Cloud Storage to Another

This method is also easy to operate and the difference between option 1 and option 2 is that the "Cloud Transfer" function is more suitable for transferring folders or the whole storage to the other clouds. So, you can choose one based on your specific situation. The part below will introduce detailed steps.

Step 1: Click on the "Cloud Transfer" button.
Step 2: Select the files or folders placed under OneDrive as the source and Google Drive or the folders in it as the destination.
Step 3: Click on "Transfer Now" to complete the task.

 [Common] Move Files between Cloud Storage Services with Download & Upload

The most straightforward way to transfer files between cloud storage services is the manual method. This involves downloading files from the source cloud storage to your local machine and then uploading them to the target cloud storage. Hopefully, you will never have to use this method because it is too time-consuming.

Step 1: Log in to your cloud A.
Step 2: Select the files you want to move and click on "Download" to download them to the local storage.

Step 3: Log in to your cloud B.
Step 4: Click on the "Upload" button to add these files to your target cloud.

Basically, you can move files from one cloud to another cloud with this method. But it costs you a lot of time to download and upload and such a process can be really slow when the network speed runs slowly. But don’t worry, with the cloud file transfer manager --- MultCloud mentioned above, you can move files between cloud storage services in 3 top ways without using the downloading and uploading process.

Summary

This paper provides 4 ways for you to transfer files between cloud storage services and you could choose one as you like. Obviously, MultCloud is an excellent tool for transferring files from one cloud to another. Currently, it supports more than 30 clouds. As long as you have cloud drives that MultCloud supports, you can realize data migration, sync, and backup between different cloud services easily. For example, you can sync Amazon S3 to Google Drive or sync multiple Google Drive accounts if necessary.