![]() I make another post in the Google product forums. I click on a few of the files in Windows and after Chrome launches, it informs me each time that the link the file was pointing to, was gone.īlog posts, poems, essays, none of them are coming up. The documents I’ve created online and placed back into the folder from my Windows based backup, are not syncing. Next day, my quota’s gone down and Takeout folder is gone, but there’s another problem, a larger problem: my documents aren’t syncing. The thread contained a link to a form you could fill out to inform Google you were having the issue and they would empty your Drive folder. But I couldn’t let it go before going to sleep, I find a thread in the product forums where people were having similar issues to mine. It doesn’t sync, but that wasn’t exactly unexpected. I put the files back into my Google Drive folder in Windows. If anything, Google would delete the files out of my account if I remained over quota, I figured. I didn’t get a quick response, so I figure I’ll go to sleep and see what’s popped up by morning. I make a post in the Google product forums. “I have a backup and now everything should clear up.” I plug in an external hard drive and move every file and folder in Google Drive to it. I copy my Google Drive folder to my Documents folder. That’s what you train yourself to do when you work in IT. But before I delete anything, I decide I’m going to make a backup to ensure that I can get all of my files back. I get the fantastic idea to begin deleting items from Drive and seeing if that helps to bring me back under quota. Since I’m again doing this late at night, I’m getting desperate for a solution and not exactly thinking straight. In fact, the folder seems to come right back almost as soon as I delete it. ![]() Since several days had passed since I’d requested the backup, I’d forgotten the backup requests I’d placed. I noticed a folder in the online, browser based version of Drive that I hadn’t seen before: Takeout. If all of the folders contained 17GB of files, then how was Drive reporting both online and in the sync app in Windows, that I had over 100GB of files in Drive? All told, I had parked about 17GB in the Google Drive folder. I looked through my files in Windows Explorer. “I can’t be over quota,” I protested to myself. I went to sleep and didn’t think about it again until a few days later when I turn my laptop and notice Google Drive isn’t syncing files I’m putting in it. ![]() After both requests, Takeout informed me that it would send an email notification when each backup was ready.īy then, it was late. Then realizing that this particular data set might have a lot of data I wasn’t looking for at the time, I requested another, smaller backup. I go to Takeout and first request a backup of all my Google data. I believe in having multiple backups and while Google Drive can function in this manner, it’s never bad to have backups of your backup. You can get much of the data you generate when using Google including your Gmail inbox and the data I was interested in, Google Drive. Takeout allows you to download a backup of your Google data. Let’s get to it.Google Drive and Takeout: A Backup-Sync OdysseyĪ few weeks ago, I came across a tool from Google I hadn’t encountered before, Google Takeout. The previous method only works for the G Suite users, Unfortunately, there is no automated process if you have a normal Google account. Transferring Data from one Google Account to another You will get an email on both old and new mail IDs once the process is completed. It copies all your data organization too including folders and labels. This process will work on the server, so you can switch off your computer and come back later. The copying process may take time depending on the size of the data. ![]() Choose what data you want to transfer and start your copy.Open Vault me on a web browser, log-in with your OLD ID in ‘Change from’ section & with your NEW ID in ‘Change to” section,.If you are concerned about using a third-party app on your emails, I highly recommend you check out their Privacy Policy page before starting. Transferring of G Suite account data is done with a third-party app called Vault me that can be accessed on any web browser.
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