Do Shared Drive total item counts traverse shortcuts?

[alexgrutza]

Long story short, an account was deleted which stored some Drive date in it's My Drive. I restored it and offered to migrate the data in the My Drive to a/the Shared Drive the user uses. Well the Share Drive is at 75% total items (300,000), and moving the data from the deleted account to the Shared Drive would exceed the 400,000 item limit. Looking at what is remaining in the deleted users My Drive, it doesn't appear there are 100,000+ items left to move...

So my question is: does the item limit traverse shortcuts to other locations/drives/share drives? Do ZIP folders count towards multiple items (say the ZIP folder has 400 items total in there, does that count 400 items or just one ZIP, since I don't think Google Drive can access ZIP natively)?

[Kim_Nilsson · Accepted solution]

The answer to both questions should be No.

Filecount should not traverse shortcut, not files inside a Zip count as individual files.

[alexgrutza]

After digging through many folders, it appears they may have a lot of files still. Just one folder had 500 photos of famous people's faces... It's for a psychology experiment I guess... I'm running GAM now to see how many files/folders the account has. 

I even created a new Shared Drive (#2) and tried to move the remining files and it gave the same error of exceeding the 400k limit. 

It appears a My Drive doesn't have that same 400k limit

[alexgrutza]

It appears an account can have in it's My Drive 500 million items. Each folder in My Drive (except the root) can have up to 500k items. https://support.google.com/a/answer/172541?hl=en#:~:text=Drive%20upload%20%26%20copy%20limits&text=Y....