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File Migration Methodologies

If your project scope includes a file migration, the following considerations are important to understand.

Copy operation

By default, Transend will create replicas of source files and copy them into the target drive. Files will continue to exist in the source drive after migration. All files will be migrated into the target drive as Microsoft file formats.

Note: The only exception is the available Move operation when migrating between Google Workspace tenants. The Google Drive-to-Google Drive Move operation requires additional fees.

Sharing Permissions

Unless it is specifically defined otherwise in your Project Plan it is Customer’s responsibility to recreate file and/or folder permissions in the target after the file migration has completed. Transend does not migrate file/folder sharing permissions between Google Shared Drives and/or SharePoint document libraries (only available in Enterprise Professional Services projects). Select file and folder sharing permissions can be migrated between User Drives (My Drive/OneDrive) upon request. Shortcuts must be recreated in the target by Customer.

If your Project Plan defines that sharing permissions are to be preserved in target User Drives, the following considerations are important to understand:

• General information about file sharing permissions

Platform specific considerations:

• Google Drive to Google Drive
• Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint
• Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint to Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint
• Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint to Google Drive