Migrating shared content items between accounts

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-executable program instructions, the instructions when executed by one or more processors causing the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

• storing, by a content management system, a content item in a first account of a user of the content management system;
• receiving, by the content management system from a client device of the user, a first notification indicating that the content item has been deleted from a first storage location on the client device associated with the first account of the user;
• receiving, by the content management system from the client device, a second notification indicating that the content item has been created in a second storage location on the client device associated with a second account of the user of the content management system;
• responsive to receiving the first notification and the second notification within a threshold time of each other, determining, by the content management system, that the user is requesting to migrate the content item from the first account to the second account;
• and
• responsive to determining that the user is requesting to migrate the content item, automatically synchronizing, by the content management system, the content item with the second account and removing access by the first account to the content item by updating synchronization information associated with the content item to indicate that the content item is synchronized with the second account and not synchronized with the first account.

A content management system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-executable program instructions, the instructions when executed by the one or more processors causing the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
• storing, by a content management system, a content item in a first account of a user of the content management system;
• receiving, by the content management system from a client device of the user, a first notification indicating that the content item has been deleted from a first storage location on the client device associated with the first account of the user;
• receiving, by the content management system from the client device, a second notification indicating that the content item has been created in a second storage location on the client device associated with a second account of the user of the content management system;
• responsive to receiving the first notification and the second notification within a threshold time of each other, determining, by the content management system, that the user is requesting to migrate the content item from the first account to the second account;
• and
• responsive to determining that the user is requesting to migrate the content item, automatically synchronizing, by the content management system, the content item with the second account and removing access by the first account to the content item by updating synchronization information associated with the content item to indicate that the content item is synchronized with the second account and not synchronized with the first account.