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Johnson-Brock Graduating Class of 2025,

Your district-provided email account and all of your messages/documents will be deleted on OCTOBER 1st, 2025. Anything in your email at that time will be permanently lost and not recoverable. Any messages sent to your student address will be bounced back to the sender. 

If you want to save the email in your student account or the docs in Google Drive, you will need to print them out; save it as a file either on a flash drive or in some other location; or forward it to another account on Google TakeOut.  Again, once your account is deleted, it will not be possible to redirect email messages sent to your student account after that time.  

Below are some directions for Google TakeOut. Sorry, I have not done this so I do not know much about it, just got instructions from another Tech Coordinator. There is plenty of information or instructions online if you "Google" it.

Good Luck and Congratulations!

EXPORTING DATA

Log into your @johnsonbrock.org account. (make sure it shows up in the top right corner)

  • Navigate to www.google.com/takeout

  • Click on "Manage Archives" and then Click “Create a New Archive”

  • Toggle the switch next to anything you want to save. All are on by default, click on select None and then choose what you want by apps. I suggest archiving ONLY what is necessary.

  • Click “Next”

  • Choose the zip format, the file size of the archive (depending on the amount of data you have, use the smallest you can that won't give you more zip folders than you want to deal with) and select a delivery method.

  • Click "Create Archive"  It can take some time to create the file, Google will email your johnsonbrock.org account when it is complete.

  • You will need to download the zip file to a local computer and extract the files from the zip file to view them.

DOCUMENTS IMPORT

First, the Google Takeout utility converted these files into Microsoft Office format (meaning Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). Below are instructions to upload individual files, or entire folders into your NEW personal Google Drive account.

HOW TO MANUALLY UPLOAD FILES

There are two ways to manually upload files to Google Drive:

Drag-and-drop files:

If you are using the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox, you can simply drag-and-drop your files directly from your computer into Google Drive at drive.google.com.  You can even drag-and-drop files directly into folders or sub-folders. For all other browsers, follow option two.

Upload files through Google Drive:

From the Google Drive web interface, you can follow these steps to manually select files to upload:

  1. Open drive.google.com.

  2. Click the upload button and select Files... from the drop-down menu.

  3. Select the file you'd like to upload. To select multiple files, press Shift or Ctrl and click all the files to upload.

  4. Your file will appear in My Drive.

HOW TO MANUALLY UPLOAD FOLDERS

There are three ways to upload folders to Google Drive:

  • Drag-and-drop folders. If you are using the latest version of either Chrome or Firefox, you can drag a folder from your desktop into Google Drive at drive.google.com. The folder will then begin uploading immediately along with its individual files and original sub-folder structure. You can upload folders directly into other folders or sub-folders as well.

  • Upload folders through Google Drive (using Chrome). From Google Drive in Chrome, you can follow these steps to manually upload a folder:

  1. - Open drive.google.com.

  2. - Click the upload button and select Folder... If you see "Enable folder upload" and you're in Chrome, then you'll need to update Chrome to the latest version.

  3. - Select one or more folders to upload. All files and sub-folders within that folder will also be uploaded.

  4. - A box that indicates the progress of your folder upload, as well as a list of the files being uploaded, appears in the bottom right of your Google Drive.

  5. - When you're done with your upload, you can click the link to open the uploaded folder in Google Drive or close the box by clicking the x in the upper right corner of the box.

  • Upload folders through Google Drive (in a browser other than Chrome). From Google Drive in browsers other than Chrome, you can use the following steps to manually upload a folder. You will need to enable folder upload in these browsers each time you visit your Google Drive:

  1. - Enable Java in your browser.

  2. - Confirm that Java is enabled by visiting the Java test page.

  3. - Install the Java applet.
    1. Click the Upload button in Google Drive and install the Java Applet when prompted.
    2. A security dialogue will open asking if you want to allow an applet to run. Install this applet. Note: The applet will be signed by Google Inc.

  4. - Complete steps to upload a folder as you would in Chrome (outlined in the steps above).