How to Transfer Documents from Dropbox to Google Drive

A big part of migrating files and folders from Dropbox to Google Drive includes transferring various types of documents like word files, spreadsheets, and presentations. But it is easier said than done as several complex factors come into play. What are those challenges and how to tackle them? Learn about them all in this guide.

Why Do Businesses Need to Transfer Documents When Migrating from Dropbox to Google Drive?

As you’d already guess, documents make up the bulk of the files to be transferred when it comes to migrating all types of files from Dropbox to Google Drive (and also between other cloud platforms). And it goes without saying that shared documents lie at the core of everyday collaboration between individual users and their teams.

Any missing metadata or data corruption in such documents and the entire collaboration structure can fall apart. Therefore, just about any businesses that want to keep the workflows and collaboration intact while avoiding user impact must prioritize smooth and secure migration of documents.

Challenges of Transferring Various Types of Documents

Migrating documents from Dropbox to Google Drive isn’t a straightforward process. The properties and metadata of the documents demand a strategic approach. Here are some of the major challenges most businesses face:

1) Migrating the documents in Google-supported formats

Since Dropbox allows users to create documents in Dropbox-exclusive formats, e.g., Dropbox Paper, and in Microsoft formats, transferring them to Google Drive and Shared Drives becomes a challenge. To address the format incompatibility, you must migrate the documents in the .docx format that Google supports.

2) Migrating the sharing permissions and other metadata

Migrating documents isn’t just about moving them from Dropbox to Google Drive in a straightforward way. It is equally important to preserve their metadata during the process. Therefore, you must use a Dropbox to Google Drive migration tool that preserves all metadata types, including permissions, versions, timestamps, hyperlinks, and more.

3) Ensuring hyperlinks do not break post-migration

Broken hyperlinks are one of the most common issues businesses face when transferring documents between cloud platforms. The changes in folder structures and path address cause links embedded in documents to stop working. To overcome this challenge, you must use a hyperlink migration tool like our proprietary Hyperlink Fixer tool.

4) Migrating documents in huge volumes

The need to transfer a large number of documents inherently poses itself as a challenge. The migration tool you choose must be able to migrate TBs and PBs worth of documents without causing any downtime or security issues.

5) Maintaining security and compliance

Ensuring optimal security and maintaining compliance during document transfers is another challenge to tackle. Make sure the migration tool you choose meets your company’s security policies and adheres to your region-specific compliance and regulations, e.g., GDPR.

How to Transfer Documents from Dropbox to Google Drive

You can streamline the entire process of transferring documents with our migration tool. With us, you can migrate all types of documents created and used in Dropbox, including:

• Microsoft Word documents
• Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
• Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
• Dropbox Paper documents

Transfer Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Documents from Dropbox to Google Drive

With our Dropbox to Google Drive migration solution, you can transfer all types of documents in a seamless and secure way. Based on the CSV user mapping paths you create, our tool will migrate the documents along with metadata to the respective user accounts in Google Drive.

Migration Process:

The process is simple and structured. Follow all the steps, including authenticating the clouds, adding the CSV mapping file, and selecting the users and features/metadata to migrate. Our tool will then perform the migration for every user batch you create.

Migration Results:

Here are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents created in Dropbox that are to be migrated to Google Drive:

Here are the same Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents that our tool migrated from Dropbox to Google Drive:

Transfer Dropbox Paper Documents to Google Drive

Similarly, you can transfer Dropbox Paper documents to Google Drive using our advanced migration tool. Since Google Drive does not support Dropbox Paper natively, our tool converts them into the .docx format during the migration process.

Migration Results:

Here are Dropbox Paper documents in Dropbox to be migrated to Google Drive:

Here are the same Dropbox Paper documents that our tool has migrated to Google Drive:

Transfer Your Company’s Entire Dropbox Documents with CloudFuze

Leverage our migration tool to transfer all Dropbox documents to Google Drive and ensure your company achieves all the migration goals. With SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliance, we help you make your migration journey highly secure and non-disruptive.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to transfer documents from Dropbox to Google Drive successfully?

The first step is to understand your company’s migration needs, then create a plan along with a roadmap and timeline accordingly. After that, choose a migration tool that has helped other companies migrate successfully.

2. What is the best Dropbox to Google Drive migration tool?

At CloudFuze, we offer one of the best Dropbox to Google Drive migration tools. Our tool provides businesses with industry’s most advanced functionalities like Dropbox Paper migration, hyperlinks migration, metadata preservation, etc. We have created migration success stories for some of the world’s largest companies.

3. What is the cost and ROI of migrating from Dropbox to Google Drive?

The cost of migrating depends on several variables like the number of users to migrate, the size of data to migrate, types of metadata to preserve, whether managed service is needed, and more. ROI depends on your use case. For example, if your company is migrating to save licensing costs, consolidating fully into Google Workspace can help you achieve that.