

This can prove to be particularly very helpful if you have to share the same folder’s copies with a number of people. This option can come in handy when you intend to share the newly created copy with someone else and so you can add the person’s name as a prefix / suffix.

Lastly, you can choose to add a prefix / suffix (or both) to the name of the copy of the folder just to differentiate it from the original one. Use any of these options to track and select the folder which you wish to copy (New Folder 100 in this example). Now you can choose to sort all the folders in a variety of ways like Last modified, Last opened by me, Name etc.

Click the Select a file button from the next screen. For this purpose, click the Add-ons | Copy Folder | Select a folder. Now let’s proceed to actually copying a folder. Even though this Add-On hasn’t got many ratings, it does an exceptional job as far as copying folders in concerned. Install it by clicking the FREE button located at the far-right corner of the Add-On and then select Accept to finalize the installation. In the Search add-ons textbox type Copy Folder and select the Search Result which has exactly the same name and has a blue colored icon. And you can only get that Add-On by opening up a Spreadsheet (Google Sheets) and then going to the Add-Ons menu. We will be making good use of an Add-On to perform this copying folders operation. Now move other folders, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides etc whatever you want to that folder. For this purpose create a new folder and name it anything you like (e.g. Now let’s talk about the main subject - copying folders in Google Drive.
