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Background

To share a folder in

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G Suite you can

  1. Explicitly share by inviting people on your enterprise to the folder.
  2. Implicitly share by creating content within a shared folder or enabling a link public to your enterprise.

Users can then move shared content to any unshared folder in their drive. Once moved to their drive, it is visible by SkySync.

SkySync interprets

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G Suite sharing as follows

  1. If you are the sharer, both the shared folder and its contents will not , including implicitly shared items with the sharer, will be seen as shared by you.
  2. If you are the sharee and move a shared folder to your drive, both the shared folder and its contents will be seen as shared to you. This includes content that you subsequently create within that hierarchy, except content explicitly shared by you.

SkySync transfers

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G Suite shared content as follows

During transfer, while excluding shared content, including both initial transfer and subsequent transfers (e.g. events within that shared folder):

  1. The sharer's job will be responsible for transferring all content and permissions on the shared folder hierarchy.
  2. The sharee's job will skip the folder shared to them (and its hierarchy).

Example

You have two users, UserA and UserB in both G Suite and Box.

You setup a SkySync user mapping copy job to transfer their G Suite drives over to Box. The job hasĀ 

Limitations

If you create a folder, share it explicitly with