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Posted on: April 21, 2013

By: Sebastiaan Terpstra

With: 24 Comments
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Having browsed the web for possibilities to access multiple Google Drive accounts from
my MacBook, iPad and/or iPhone I have concluded that it seems to be an impossibility to
install Google Drive more than once for different accounts. For your Mac, there are paid
solutions for this but the most simple and inexpensive one (free) is this one and works for

always a fix
Access multiple Google Drives from one
account
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all devices. Im assuming youve got one main Google Drive account, for which youve
installed the app on your device(s), and another one which youd like to access from the
your main account.

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from one account

1. Make a folder in your main drive called My other Google Drive (or whatever youd like
to call it)
2. On your other Google Drive, share your folder(s) with yourself (your main account) and
adjust it so you Can edit
3. On your main account, go to Shared with me and drag this folder (or these folders) to
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the folder you just made (My other Google Drive)

Drives from one account

4. Thats it! Enjoy working in your other Google Drives from one app!

If youve got any comments or questions, drop me a line below. Keep driving
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Leo Salazar April 22, 2013 Reply

But . . . uh . . . this doesnt give us any extra Drive space . . . or does it?

Sebastiaan Terpstra April 22, 2013 Reply

Well technically, if youve got one main Drive of 5GB and share
all your other Drives with your main Drive it simply adds 5GB per
Drive you add

Toni May 19, 2013 Reply

What a gift! Thank you! Too easy and brilliant for me to think of it.

Now I

can get rid of Insync the new version has lost vital files and they are
nowhere to be found not even in Recycle Bin or Google Drive trash or
under the seat in my truck.

Sebastiaan Terpstra May 19, 2013 Reply

Hi Toni, Im glad you found it helpful

Thanks for the comment!

Ryan May 29, 2013 Reply

The only problem is when you try to add files to your shared folder. It will
add those files as your main account user which will contribute to the
main accounts 5 gigs. It will not contribute to your other account
because it will only count it towards the owner of the file. Hopefully that
makes sense.
I was trying this because I have a person account (5 gig) and a work account.

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I wanted it so I can see my work account files at home and add to it.
Unfortunately, I found out that when I added the files from home it
contributed to my 5 gig. Its confusing because its for the work not for my
home.
I will need to figure something else out

Sebastiaan Terpstra June 7, 2013 Reply

Hi Ryan, this is true so you have to keep in mind that you dont
actually share your space with yourself, only the documents. For
bigger documents (e.g. movies) youd have to go to the account
you want the size to contribute to. Thanks for the feedback!

Rich June 6, 2013 Reply

Thanks a bunch Sebastiaanjust the info I was looking for

Sebastiaan Terpstra June 7, 2013 Reply

Good to hear, enjoy!

Biggi Fraley June 19, 2013 Reply

Just one word Ingenious!
Thanks so much!

Satish Naik July 4, 2013 Reply

Sebastisaan,
Indeed a simple & brilliant way out. Wonder why Google is not paying
attention to user feedback and building such simple features within apps.

Voltaire John August 15, 2013 Reply

Hey, ingenious solution

Now my capacity is +15gb more =) The

instructions are a bit tricky though.

Ken August 26, 2013 Reply

Thank you for the good solution, this is all I wanted for my google drive
accounts

saikumar August 28, 2013 Reply

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wow ! Thanks a million dude !!! instructions are little difficult to follow
please try to simplify the procedure.

Sebastiaan Terpstra August 28, 2013 Reply

No problem! Youre right about the instructions, Ill try to simplify
them in the near future

ameer October 9, 2013 Reply

Good tip. Thank you very much

Kathleen Reyes October 23, 2013 Reply

BRILLIANT! Many Thanks!

DD November 21, 2013 Reply

HI Sebastiaan,
Thanks for the lateral thing tank. Currently I have a secondary cloud drive
with amazon and skydrive , but they lack capacity and are clunky . SO I
found this site and hoped to try it out.
A couple of points :
Assume Google user gmail1= Accnt1 and Google user gmail 2 = accnt 2.
Accnt1 is fitted on pc with folders on pc .
re- instruction
1) create folder Is easy enough to do as main account and folders are
installed on pc ..add folder .
2) I assume this means you go on web log into accnt 2 and share a folder in
there with accnt1s gmail.
3) I dragged the to be shared folder on accnt 2 (from web page ) to my drive
accnt1 google folder( via file explorer window) on my pc but it only seems to
add a shortcut ( is this right ) ?
++ I decided to log into my accnt 1 on web browser too and look for shared
with me on LHS . What I did was drag the new to be shared folder into the
folder My other google drive in accnt 1 all on the same browser page . It
seems to have worked but I am waiting for google drive to show this new
folder in my PC folders as it is not visible yet.
The other thing with this system is that if you want to add a new file you
have to upload it from your original accnt2 browser log in as accnt1 is on
your pc and it counts towards that capacity if you do it from there.
Perhaps you can confirm this is what you mean in your instructions
Thanks
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1 Make a folder in your main drive called My other Google Drive (or
whatever youd like to call it)
2 On your other Google Drive, share your folder(s) with yourself (your main

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account) and adjust it so you Can edit
3 On your main account, go to Shared with me and drag this folder (or
these folders) to the folder you just made (My other Google Drive)
4 Thats it! Enjoy working in your other Google Drives from one app!

Jason November 27, 2013 Reply

Wowthank you for this. It absolutely solved my issue!

Mikhil January 2, 2014 Reply

Hi Sebastiaan
This was something that made my job a lot easier. Amazing, what an
intelligent idea from you, thank you so much you are a good guy
Sebastiaan..:-)
Just a question
Is there also a way to do something similar with Sky Drive accounts and Box
accounts?
Or can u suggest any good client where i can have all my cloud accounts
synced and accessed all together
Any suggestion will be of great help..
Thanks

Roderick January 9, 2014 Reply

Sebastiaan youve just solved my problem of being able to access both work
and personal google drives from my home pc! Many many Thanks!
Cheers, Rod.

Vittorio January 16, 2014 Reply

Hi Sebastian, thank you very much for this trick: it is simple and functional!

Noam January 18, 2014 Reply

It doesnt work! When you check the quota used it gets used from the main
account, I tested it by coping a 1GB file to the shared drive on 2nd account
and the quota got used from the main (1st account)

Sebastiaan Terpstra January 30, 2014 Reply

Hi Noam, I wasnt talking about merging your instances of Google
Drive to increase the number of GBs. This post only concerns
accessing both of your Drives from one account, bypassing the

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need to log out of one account and log in to the other to access
your files.

murpy April 14, 2014 Reply

oh man, thats brilliant
thx
-m.

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