This guide walks you through how to transfer your Hope College Google account data—such as emails and Drive files—to a personal Google account using Google Takeout Transfer. This is especially useful for graduating students or those leaving the college who want to keep their files and emails.

The process is simple and helps ensure you don’t lose access to important documents once your institutional account is deactivated.

 Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

1. An active Hope College Google account.

2. A personal Gmail account to receive the transferred content.

3. Stable internet connection for completing the transfer process.

 Instructions

Go here: takeout.google.com/transfer

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1. Click on your account.

2. Click on Manage your Google Account

3. Click on Start transfer

4. Follow the directions onscreen

 Tips & Notes

The transfer may take several hours depending on the amount of data. You’ll receive an email once the process is complete.

• This process creates a copy of your data—your original files remain in your Hope College account.

• Documents someone else shared with you will transfer as view-only unless you change ownership before transferring.

• Are you the owner of shared content? Be sure to move that to a shared drive or give ownership to someone else before leaving.

• Make sure to complete the transfer before your Hope account is deactivated.

• You can check the status of your transfer at https://takeout.google.com/transfer/history