Google Takeout: Take your Google Drive Files With You When You Graduate

Over the past three years Saucon students have increasingly used Google Drive as their main Document/ Spreadsheet/ Presentation creation tool.  This year we have been getting a lot of questions from graduating seniors about how they can take what they have in their Drive with them.


Google Takeout is a little known Google tool that allows you to download data from many of Google's top services.   It's as easy as:

1. Go to google.com/takeout then log into the Google account you want to get your Docs from.
2. Click on the "Choose Services" button.
3. Click on "Drive"
4. Click "Create Archive"













5. You will then be prompted to select if you want to download your entire drive or just certain folders. The default download format for all docs will the the corresponding Microsoft Office format. You can change this by clicking on the arrow next to "configure" and changing the download type.

6. You can then click on the to the Downloads button and you will see a list of your downloads. Click download and the file will save to your local drive.