google-drive
I have a large amount of folders that I created in My Drive, however these are also organized in another shared folder. I no longer need these folders in My Drive specifically as long as I can find them in the shared folder.
How do I move them so they are not cluttering up my personal drive but I can still find them in a shared folder if I need to?
Tell your students to add your folder shared with them to "My Drive" in their own accounts and that after move or add the corresponding files to that folder.
Files owned by the user can't be moved to "Shared with me". At the "root level" of "that place" only could be items that are owned by others could be listed.
Users could organize their own files and folders and files and folders shared with them in "My Drive".
That will remove it from a single folder while keeping it in all the other folders it was in.
Best Answer
Somebody has to (I believe) "own" the folder even if it was shared.
So if you are the original owner of the folder and then shared it, unfortunately I don't think you can
One solution I had to a similar issue is I signed up for a new Google Apps account (back when they were free - I am sure a regular GMail account will do just fine) and then shared the folders with that user.
I then created a new folder with my dummy GMail account, and created a similar folder structure in that account, and copied all the files there. It was fast and I think it basically didn't actually copy the files.
I then (held my breath....) and deleted the original folder from my normal GMail account and shared the folder with myself from the dummy account.
It's a bit of an odd solution, but I think the reason is Google wants to make sure there is someone whose account has the files and folders associated with it