I'm leaving Meadowbrook. What should I do with my Meadowbrook Account?

If you're leaving Meadowbrook for good your Meadowbrook Google account including your Docs, Sites and email will be deleted on June 30.

Here's how to save your important files and messages for life after Meadowbrook.

Transferring Google Mail and Drive Content

What actually gets transferred?

You can copy and transfer these kinds of files from your Meadowbrook account to another Google Account:

1. Email in Gmail (not contacts, chats, or tasks)

2. Documents that you own in Google Drive (except files in the "Google Photos" section of Drive)

3. Documents in My Drive

The original files stay in your school account. Any changes you make to the copied files don't affect the originals.

A file in My Drive won't be copied if either of the following are true:

1. You're a viewer, not an editor or owner

2. The owner has turned off download, print, and copy options for commenters and viewers

When the copy process is done, you'll be notified by email about any files in My Drive that weren't copied.

Navigate to Google Transfer

Open a browser, navigate to https://takeout.google.com/transfer and login with your Meadowbrook Google account.

Enter Destination Account

Specify the Gmail account that you would like to transfer your Meadowbrook content to (if you don't have one already, you'll need to create one at gmail.com) and click the "Send Code" button to begin the verification process.

Verify Your Account

Retrieve the verification email from your personal Gmail inbox and click on the "Get confirmation code" button.

Copy Confirmation Code

Copy the confirmation code to your clipboard to use in the next step.

Finish Verification

Paste the confirmation code into the appropriate field and click the "Verify" button to complete verification.

Verify and Begin Transfer

1. Verify the source and destination accounts

2. Select which content you would like to transfer

3. Begin transfer

Confirmation

You will see a confirmation when the process setup is completed.

Where do I find my transferred emails?

Your Meadowbrook emails will be added as a new label in your personal Gmail inbox. The label will be titled "Moved" and then the date on which the transfer was initiated.

Where do I find my Drive content?

A new folder will be created in your personal "My Drive" with a label that includes the name of your Meadowbrook account and the date on which the transfer was initiated. Inside this folder you will find all of the copied content from your Meadowbrook account.

For more information on the Google Takeout Transfer tool, check out the following resources:

If you would like to keep any Google Sites that you created:

1. Go to the site

2. Click the Share icon at the top right of the screen

3. Share with your personal email account and make this account "owner" of the site

Transferring Google Contacts

You can export your contacts from your school email account and import them into your personal gmail account by following these steps:

1. Go to your school email account, click on the triangle next to Mail toward the top left of the screen and choose "Contacts"

2. Click on "More" from the top of the screen and choose "Export"

3. Choose the contacts that you want to export and leave the default format as google.csv

4. This file will appear in the downloads folder on your computer

5. Go to "Contacts" in your personal gmail account

6. Click on "More" from the top of the screen and choose "Import"

7. Select the file called "google.csv" in your downloads and these contacts will appear in your personal account