How to Transfer a Copy of Drive and Email Contents (Bulk Send)
- Ryan McKimens
Disclaimer
This article is a how to make a copy and transfer from a Bethel email and drive to a personal. This does NOT include Google Photos.
This transfer may take up to a week to fully transfer the contents.
- Navigate to either drive.google.com or mail.bethel.edu and be signed in to your Bethel account.
- On the top right, select the Bethel logo with either your picture or initial.
3. A drop down will appear where you will then select Manage your Google Account.
4. Below the Welcome, user, there will be an option to Start Transfer.
5. A page will pop up that will allow you to enter in a personal email.
6. An email will then be sent to your destination email where you will retrieve a code.
7. Enter that code back in the Google Takeout location.
8. You can then select if you want both drive and gmail transferred. Once selected you can click on start transfer.
What to Look For
This will only create a copy of the files in your personal account. If you would like to clear space after the transfer, you will have to go back into your Bethel account and manually delete the items.
To see your items, look in your personal google drive for a folder labeled with your Bethel email and the date it was sent over. Similarly, in gmail, search for the label with your Bethel email on it.
Common Error
Students attempting to use Google Takeout Transfer may get the message "Transfer Your Content is only available to authorized G Suite for Education Accounts. Please contact your administrator, or sign in with another Google Account".
This happens when the student is logged into their personal Gmail account and then opens a new tab and logs into their student account in the save Chrome web browser instance.
To start a transfer in Google Takeout, the student must be logged into Google Accounts in separate Chrome instances. Here is a video on how to create separate Chrome instances for each Google account you use:
Alternately, login to your personal Gmail account using Google Chrome and then use a different web browser like Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge to login to your Bethel account. Using two different web browsers keeps logins in separate instances because they are in a different application.