This is HOW TO MOVE FILES FROM ONE CLOUD STORAGE SERVICE TO ANOTHER CS110 Assignment: <a> Zaman University, Cambodia </a>

1. How to Move Files From One Cloud Storage Service to Another

2. You may want to switch to another cloud storage service —
perhaps moving to Microsoft’s OneDrive to get that now-
infinite cloud storage. Yes, you could just download and re-
upload all your files, but you can also do this a faster way.
Your home Internet connection’s upload speed is
usually the bottleneck here. Use a service that will
move your files between services for you and you
won’t have to worry about your upload speed or even
leaving your computer on.

3. The Obvious, Slow Way
First of all, keep it simply. If you don’t have that many gigabytes
of data stored in a cloud storage service, you don’t have to use
any of the services below. All you have to do is download your
files to your computer — if they’re all synced to your computer,
that will work. If not, you’ll need to change your service’s sync
settings to sync all files to your computer.
Note that, if you use Google Docs, you’ll need to export those
Google Docs file to Office documents or another format before
you can move them to another service.

4. Next, install the desktop client for the service you want to move
your files to, and just move or copy the files from your
current cloud storage folder to the new one. The new cloud
storage service will upload all of them from your computer to its
data center.

5. This is all well and good, but this process involves downloading
everything over your home Internet connection and then re-
uploading it. Your home Internet connection is probably the
slowest part of the process, so this just isn’t efficient if you have a
massive amount of data. The solution is a service that grabs the
files for you and then pushes them to the new service.

6. Mover.jo
We first became aware of Mover.io when they partnered with
Canonical to help get people’s files out of Ubuntu One and onto other
services before its shutdown. Mover.io supports more services than
that, and it’s actually free for personal use. This means it’s a great way
to get files out of any consumer cloud storage service and onto another
without the hassle. Mover.io supports Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive,
Google Drive, Box, Copy, Yandex, and PutIO for its free
consumer service.
Add your accounts and mover.io will gain access to them via OAuth.
You can then run an immediate transfer of the files from one location
to another, or set up a scheduled transfer to have this happen
automatically on a schedule. This is faster than doing this yourself,
because it uses mover.io’s Internet connection, which will likely have
faster download and upload speeds than yours. You also don’t have to
leave your computer for the duration of the process, as it all happens
on their servers (or “in the cloud,” as we say nowadays).

7. After performing the file transfer, you can revoke the service’s
access to your files if you don’t plan on continuing to use this
service on a continual basis. You can and should revoke
any service’s access when you’re done using it.

8. Otixo
Otixo isn’t designed only for moving files between different
services. It’s a cloud storage aggregator that allows you to see all
your cloud storage services and their files in a single interface.
Otixo also lets you easily transfer files between these services with a
quick drag-and-drop.
The nice thing about Otixo is that it supports a wider variety of
cloud storage services, including SugarSync, Amazon S3 storage,
FTP servers, and WebDAV sites. Otixo does have a limit in that it
can only move a single file at a time between services if you have a
free account. However, if you need such a service to move large files
— for example, ISO files, large videos, or archive files — this may
not be that much of a downside.

9. IFTTT
There are other services like Mover.io, but we can’t resist doing this with
IFTTT – short for “IF This, Then That.” We love IFTTT for its ability to put
together “recipes” that operate on certain triggers. To do this, IFTTT has
functions that can grab files from a cloud storage service and push
them to another. Enterprising IFTTT users have already created recipes
that use IFTTT to push files from one cloud storage service to another, and
they can be found with a quick search on the IFTTT site. Indeed, there are
recipes for syncing your dropbox folder to OneDrive or adding files to
Google Drive by moving them to a specific Dropbox folder.

10. Unfortunately, there’s no way to use OneDrive or Google Drive
as a source in IFTTT. It’s not just that no one has created the
recipes yet, but that a created recipe can’t start with OneDrive
or Google Drive — they can only be a destination. This could
be a good way to migrate files from Dropbox, though —
especially if you already use and trust IFTTT, as many geeks
do.

11. There are more services beyond these, of course. You can find
them with a quick Google search. Be sure to look at the fine
print — many services require a payment, even for personal
use. You’re also granting such a service service access to both
of your cloud storage accounts if you do this, so you should
try to find a trustworthy service that won’t abuse that access.
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