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Gather All Google Drive Files of a Certain Type and Change Owner
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const newOwner = '[email protected]'; | |
const fileTypesToTransfer = ['application/vnd.google-apps.form']; // https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/mime-types | |
function changeOwnership() { | |
console.log('Gathering all files in Drive of type ' + fileTypesToTransfer.join(',') + '...'); | |
let fileIterator = DriveApp.searchFiles(fileTypesToTransfer.map(x => 'mimeType = "' + x + '"').join(' or ')); | |
let files = []; | |
while (fileIterator.hasNext()) { | |
files.push(fileIterator.next()); | |
} | |
console.log('Transferring ownership of ' + files.length + ' files...'); | |
for (let file of files) { | |
try { | |
file.setOwner(newOwner); | |
} | |
catch(e) { | |
console.error('Problem updating ownership for the file ' + file.getName() + '. Continuing...'); | |
} | |
Utilities.sleep(100); // .1 secs, avoiding rate limiting | |
} | |
} |
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