Google Drive is a great place to store your files securely, and then access them from anywhere in the world! It also provides a synchronizing facility with your devices, you can keep your files up to date across multiple devices.
In order to move files in bulk quantities, you have two different methods of doing so.
- Google Drive web interface
- Google Drive desktop application
You can also use the Easy File Renamer software to rename and move files in bulk. Download it here:
Move Google Drive Files, Use Easy File Renamer
Easy File Renamer follows Google Software Principles
Google Drive web interface
Google has been rolling out new features in Google Drive regularly, including the Material Look feature. Along with that, some of the basic features were opted out, such as Moving files in bulk. However, due to the overflowing requests from the users, this feature has been added back to Google Drive.
- You can select the files/folders you want to move. (You can press and hold Ctrl to select multiple items.)
- Right-click on one of the items, and you’ll get a menu.
- On that, click the Move to option.
- Then you’ll get another popup to select the target folder which will be the destination for the files you’ve selected.
- Select the target folder and click on Move.
- Now your files will be moved to the selected folder.
Google Drive desktop application
If you have already installed the Google Drive desktop application, this task becomes a lot easier. You can simply move your files from/ to the Google Drive folder located on your computer’s hard drive and the changes will be synced to the cloud in an instance.
The important thing to notice in this case is that, sometimes (or rather most of the times) when you move the files from one folder to the Google Drive folder in your computer to another folder within the same parent Google Drive folder, this whole action is marked as a file deletion (source folder) process and not a file move (destination folder) in the cloud. Hence, the moved files will be uploaded again to the cloud. This might be a problem for larger files since they will consume a hefty amount of your Internet connection’s bandwidth.