Question

I am trying to use Google drive API to carry out simple tasks like

1. Moving files across folders.
2. List item

Moving folders.

As far as I could find Google drive API does not provide a way to move files across folders.

With /parent and /children API parent folder of a file can be specified but it does not work for a folder. Moreover the parent attribute associated with a file does not move it under that folder. It just associates a parent attribute with the file(which is not at all useful for my case)

Answer 1

To move FILE-A from FOLDER-1 to FOLDER-2, you can use the delete and add calls at https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/parents to remove FOLDER-1 as a parent and add FOLDER-2.

You can also do a Patch on the file with the updated parents array.