Upon graduation or departure from Breck, a user may be looking for a way to take the data from their Google Account with them. Google provides a helpful tool to transfer Google Account data from your Breck Google Account to a personal Google Account. The general steps for this process are as follows:
Transfer Email and My Drive Files to another Google Account
- If you don’t already have one, create a new Google account to transfer the files to.
- To copy content that other people have shared with you, make sure those files have been added to your My Drive and are not only available in “Shared with me”.
- Sign into your Breck Google Account account and go to takeout.google.com/transfer.
- Enter the email address of the destination Google account.
- Select Send code.
- Check your new personal Gmail account for the confirmation email, and in the email select Get confirmation code. A new tab will open with a code.
- Return to takeout.google.com/transfer to enter the code, and choose Verify.
- Choose the content you’d like to copy and select Start transfer.
More detailed information regarding the use of Google Takeout Transfer can be found in the following Google support article:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6386856
One important consideration to keep in mind. Free commercial Google Accounts (those with an @gmail.com email address) provide 15GB of storage. Your Breck Google Account is not subject to this limitation. As a result, it is possible that your personal Google Account may not have enough storage for all of your Breck Google Account data. In this scenario, you may want to take steps such as deleting unneeded emails or Drive files in your Breck Google Account to minimize the amount of data to be transferred. To see how much storage your Breck Google Account is currently by service, you can your account storage through the following link:
https://drive.google.com/settings/storage?hl=en&utm_source=google-account&utm_medium=web