# Migration von Googel Drive

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migration-von-googel-drive/178635>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Tags:** missing\_information\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migration-von-googel-drive/178635 "2024-01-10T12:17:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karl\_Exler](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/karl_exler/32/57561_2.png) [@Karl\_Exler](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Karl_Exler)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migration-von-googel-drive/178635/1 "2024-01-10T12:17:06Z")

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Is there a “best practice” for migrationg from Google Drive? For Photos and for Documentes?

Documents seems easy → Copy them to NC— \> done.

But thet hing with the Photos is a bit more complicated, I think.

The best way I think is to do a “Google Take Out” and copy the files directly into my own nextcloud photo folder on files system level. And afterwards I initiate a scan.  
What do you think about that idea?

I mentioned, that deleting a picture in nextcloud, which has auomatically been upload from my smartphone cam, is not deleted on my smartphone, when I delete it in the NC??  
What is implemented there? A sync or only an upload?

My first migration went wrong and I have to restart from scratch. Can I delete the files within filemanager and do a scan for NC or is it better to delete them inside NC.

Thanks  
Karl

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**Author:** ![devnull](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/devnull/32/27793_2.png) [@devnull](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/devnull)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migration-von-googel-drive/178635/2 "2024-01-10T12:27:21Z")

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> [@Karl\_Exler](#):
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> My first migration went wrong and I have to restart from scratch. Can I delete the files within filemanager and do a scan for NC or is it better to delete them inside NC.

You can delete the files direct on the linux server and then use  
`sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all`  
[documentation](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#file-operations)

The command updates the Nextcloud database so that Nextcloud knows which files exists. You can also copy the files there and perform the scan.

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**Author:** ![wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/wwe/32/72963_2.png) [@wwe](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/wwe)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/migration-von-googel-drive/178635/3 "2025-01-16T08:57:22Z")

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