Transfer Dropbox Data to Google Drive With External Shares

The Dropbox external sharing feature allows users to share content with people outside the organization. Granting access to external users to specific files and folders facilitates seamless communication with partners, vendors, clients, or customers.

This feature empowers organizations to share information efficiently while controlling who can view, edit, or comment on shared content. This article explores the importance of migrating external shares and how CloudFuze facilitates transferring Dropbox data to Google Drive with external shares.

Why Transfer External Shares from Dropbox to Google Drive?

External shares are a critical component of collaboration, allowing users to share files and folders with individuals outside your organization. When migrating from Dropbox to Google Drive, preserving these external shares is essential to ensure data security and retain collaboration of all shared files in the destination cloud.

Failing to migrate external shares correctly can result in broken links, loss of access to shared content, and interruptions in collaborative workflows.

How CloudFuze Migrates External Shares from Dropbox to Google Drive?

CloudFuze seamlessly facilitates the migration of external shares from Dropbox to Google Drive, ensuring a smooth transition of files while retaining their permissions and preserving the collaborative ecosystem. This means that users can seamlessly access the migrated folders and files in Google Drive with the same permissions as previously established in Dropbox.

Beyond preserving shared links and external shares, CloudFuze offers comprehensive migration features that allow you to transfer versions, timestamps, comments, internal links, and embedded links. This ensures the data migration from Dropbox to Google Drive is complete and accurate.

Another crucial aspect is that each cloud platform has a different URL structure for its files and folders. Hence, while migrating from Dropbox to Google Drive, ensuring that no link is broken and migrated with all the associated permissions is vital.

The CloudFuze LinkEx tool transfer all your Box files to OneDrive while preserving their links without any breakages.

Example of External Sharing Permissions Migration from Dropbox to Google Drive

The example below shows how CloudFuze migrates external shares from Dropbox to Google Drive with accurate access.
Let us consider a folder “DEMO TEST” in Dropbox shared with external user “Steven“.

Folder permissions to the external user “Steven” are migrated to the same access level in Google Drive, as shown in the image below.

By successfully preserving external shares, CloudFuze ensures uninterrupted collaboration and data accessibility. Its advanced features and user-friendly interface streamline the migration process, making it an essential tool for businesses seeking to optimize their data management strategies. Contact our experts to learn more about how CloudFuze can meet your Dropbox to Google Drive data migration needs.