Migrate from UW Google to Personal Google

Before migrating UW Google Drive data, read about file ownership in Google Drive.

Saving your UW Gmail email and Google Drive files

Google offers two ways to save your data:  

• Google Takeout will allow you to download UW Gmail email and UW Google Drive files
• Google Takeout Transfer copies UW Gmail email and Google Drive files to another Google account (e.g. your personal Gmail account)

Both methods are automatic but may not transfer every email and file. When Google fails to transfer an email or file, you will receive an email with a list of files that did not transfer that looks like this: 

• Null (null) 
• Null (null) 
• Null (null) 

Unfortunately, Google will not display the file name that did not transfer, but the number of failures corresponds to the number of “- null (null) entries”. In the example above, three failures were recorded by Google.  Tracking down the failures requires comparing what is in your UW Google account vs. what copied to your other Google account. Usually, larger items and unusual file types are the cause of failures.   

Tips:

• Google Drive’s quota page shows the largest files in Google Drive 
• Google’s Gmail search is the best way to find large email
• This sample search will find all attachments larger than 10 megabytes
• You may also want to look for uncommon file types and attachments. Documents, PDFs, and pictures all tend to transfer without issue.  

Once the file or email attachment that won’t transfer is found, it will need to be manually downloaded: 

• Download Google Drive files 
• Download Gmail attachments