Google Takeout for Schools: Transferring Your @stu.smuhsd.org Content to Another Google Account

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Before You Start:

• You need to have two different Google accounts. 

  • Source account - your @stu.smuhsd.org account (this account must be a Google school account)

  • Destination account - the account you are transferring all of the content to. This can be a personal gmail account or another school Google account. If you don’t have a personal Gmail account - create one at google.com/gmail

Step 1: Enter a destination account

• Log on to both Google accounts. This can be on the same device or different devices.

• From your @stu.smuhsd.org account go to: https://takeout.google.com/transfer

• Enter the email address that you want to transfer the files to and click Send code. 

• Go the the account you want to transfer to and check for an email with the subject: Verify your account.

• Click the Get confirmation code button in that email. 

• Your confirmation code will open in a new tab.

• Copy this code! 

Step 2: Verify your account

• Go back to your Google Takeout Transfer screen (in your @stu.smuhsd.org account).

• Enter the confirmation code that you just copied and click Verify.

Step 3: Select content to copy and transfer

• Go back to your Google Takeout Transfer screen (in your @stu.smuhsd.org account).

• If you don’t change anything, both your Google Drive files and Email will be transferred. If you do not want that - toggle off the one you don’t want to transfer. 

• Select Start Transfer to start the process!

Step 4: Transfer your content

• Your email and files are now transferring. This may take up to a week depending on how many files you have!

• You can close your computer once this process starts - the transfer is happening on Google’s servers.

• Emails will show up in the destination account’s inbox with a @stu.smuhsd.org label.

• In Drive, all files that you owned or had editing rights will be copied over to a folder named with your @stu.smuhsd.org account. 

• These files are copies and are not shared with anyone else. 

Adapted from Control Alt Achieve: https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2020/05/google-takeout.html