By default, you own any file you create in or upload to Google Drive.
If you use your Google Account for work or school:
- You can only transfer ownership of files and folders to someone in your organization.
- The transfer doesn’t require the new owner to accept.
Before you transfer ownership
You can only transfer ownership of files to people within your work or school. When you make someone else the owner of a folder, you still own the files inside. Learn more about sharing folders.
Tip: If you transfer ownership of a lot of files and folders at once, it may take some time for you to see the changes.
After you transfer ownership
When you make someone else the owner of a file, you won’t be able to:
- Transfer ownership, even back to yourself.
- Permanently delete the file from Google Drive.
Change owners
- Open Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides.
- Click the file you want to transfer to someone else
Share or Share 
. - To the right of a person you've already shared the file with, click the Down arrow
. - Click Transfer ownership
Done.
Tip: To cancel the ownership transfer request, next to the person you shared the file with, click the Down arrow 
Cancel ownership transfer. When you click the Down arrow 
, you can change each participant's permissions.
You remain the file owner until the pending owner accepts your invitation. After the pending owner accepts your invitation, you can edit the file until the new owner changes your access.
Important:
- You can’t transfer a file from your personal Google account to someone with a work or school account.
- If you send an ownership transfer request to a personal account and that account becomes a work or school account, the pending owner can’t accept the request.
- If you send an ownership transfer request and your personal account becomes a work or school account, the pending owner can’t accept the request.
- You can cancel the request.
- The pending owner can decline the request.