How to upload file > 15GB to Google Service Account

Question

I am trying to upload a file > 15GB to a google service account, using this snippet from Google Drive:

• http://gsuitedevs.github.io/drive-utils/
• https://github.com/gsuitedevs/drive-utils/tree/master/upload

Is there a way to upload files larger than 15GB here? Or, a way to modify it so that it will upload to my personal Google Drive (where I'm paying for storage) instead of a service account that has that limitation? If so, how would I do so?

Answer 1

There are a file storage limit on Google drive Upload files to Google Drive

Google Apps Free edition (legacy) Individual consumer accounts 15 GB

If you do an about.get you will see how much space the service account has access to. Service accounts are basic users and there is no way that i know of to give it more space.

Granting it access to your account

You can take the service account email address and share a folder on your google drive account with the service account. It will then have access to upload to that folder.