Transfer files from Google Drive to MEGA

Server to server, without downloading anything to your computer.

How it works

Connect both accounts once. ShiftMyData then talks to Google Drive and MEGA directly and streams the files between them in memory — nothing is written to our disks, and nothing travels down to your machine and back up again. The job runs on a worker, so closing the tab does not stop it.

Will every file be verified?

MEGA exposes no checksum through its API, so files are compared on size and modification time. That is a limit of MEGA rather than of the transfer, and it applies whichever tool you use.

Before you start

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides arrive as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Files shared with you and shared drives are separate roots in the explorer, not part of My Drive: copy them as well if you want them.
A transfer copies each file's current content, name and modification time; sharing and version history stay behind on Google Drive. Business migration carries them where both sides support them.

Sources: support.google.com · rclone.org · rclone.org

Worth knowing about Google Drive

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are not files in the ordinary sense -- they have no bytes to copy and no size until they are exported. ShiftMyData exports them to their Office equivalents on the way out; a native Doc cannot be preserved as a Doc anywhere except another Drive.

Worth knowing about MEGA

MEGA exposes no checksum through its API and rate-limits free accounts aggressively. Transfers are compared on size and modification time, and a large move from a free account will be throttled by MEGA rather than by us.

Steps

On the Clouds screen, add Google Drive: sign in with Google and allow access.
Add MEGA the same way: enter your MEGA email and password.
Pick the source folder in the left pane and the destination folder in the right.
Choose a mode — copy, mirror, move, or two-way — and start the transfer.
Leave it. Progress is on the Jobs screen, and a webhook can tell you when it ends.

Questions

Do I have to download my files from Google Drive first?

No. The transfer is streamed from Google Drive to MEGA on our servers, so nothing is written to your machine and your home upload speed is not the limit.

What happens if I close my laptop?

The job keeps running. It is queued on a worker rather than in your browser, and the progress is there when you come back.

How do I know every file arrived?