Thursday, January 13, 2022

migrating emails from one google account to another, and storing archived data in Shared Drive

Copy-pasting from some correspondence about email migration and ease of access of data using a Shared Drive in Google Workspace - 

The process for moving all old emails from your old account to the new account is documented at the top half of the page at


The process for setting up email forwarding, so that all new emails go to the new account, is at

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957

Regarding exporting and importing of contacts - 
1. If no contacts have been manually saved, then just importing the emails to the new account will probably enable the automatic pop-up of the email addresses
2. In case that does not happen, or if you wish to make the contacts visible immediately, you can go to contacts.google.com with the old login - the contacts which were not manually saved would be visible under "Other Contacts" on the left-hand side. Export has an option for "Selected contacts", so if you select the "Other Contacts", you can export them.
 
Yes, emails can be exported to Gmail, to the new account. 

But my understanding is that you have a lot more than 30 GB of emails (with attachments) which you wish to archive? In that case, once again you will have the mailbox becoming full. 
 
What you may want to do would be to drag and drop the required attachments to the Shared Drive which I have created for you, which you can access from 
Google Drive - Shared Drives (on the left hand side)

Mailstore seems to have the option to export to Directory (file system)
After that export, you could drag and drop that directory (after checking if the attachments are also there) to the Shared Drive.
 

 

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