If you're leaving the St. Albert community (e.g., graduating, or moving away from Louisville), St. Albert will be shutting down your St. Albert Google account -- you will no longer be able to login, and you will not have access to any content stored on your account.


The easiest way to download everything from your St. Albert Google account is to visit Google Takeout and follow the instructions to create and download a snapshot archive of all your content.


Even though Google Takeout allows you to download all the content under your St. Albert Google account, we have found that most people typically only want to save the following:

  1. Files stored in Google drive (to include Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides).  See below for an important note about downloading Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via Google Takeout.
  2. Calendar data.
  3. Emails.
  4. Gmail contacts.  This mostly applies to faculty and staff (since students will not have any contacts outside the @stalbert.org domain).

Using Google Takeout, all of these things can be downloaded from your St. Albert Google account and re-uploaded into either another Google-based account, or to some other service.


NOTE: When you download Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via Google Takeout, they are converted to Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for you. This is convenient if you simply want to open these files on your local computer.  However, there may be some formatting changes as a result of this conversion.  Further, if you re-upload these files to another Google account, there may be more formatting changes as the files are converted a second time.


Faculty and staff have the ability to share all their Google Drive-stored files (to include Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides) to another Google account, and the login to that other Google account to make a full copy of all the files from within Google Drive (i.e., without download / re-uploading all the files).  This method will also prevent potential formatting issues from converting to Microsoft format and then back to Google "native" format.  Students cannot share their content outside of the @stalbert.org domain, and therefore do not have this option.


More advanced users may wish to download individual sets of data from within each Google product (e.g., download contacts directly from Google contacts).  Instructions for doing so are not provided here -- you may wish to Google around to find instructions for downloading from each service.