Last updated on 14 May 2014
Google Takeout is an online tool that will allow you to create one or more archives of your content in the different services of the Google ecosystem.
Google regularly and often rightly raises criticism, but it must also be recognized the ability to offer practical and particularly well done services. This is the case of Google Takeout, which allows you to download in two clicks three movements of your data present on the various Google services. You will be able to download a complete archive, for example, of all your documents, courses, exercises, notes and other files on Google Drive.
Google Takeout is very easy to use. You have to be well connected with your Google credentials and go to the Googel Takeout page. From there you will be able to select the Google products whose data you want to download, and configure the download settings for each of them. Google Takeout allows you to save and download almost all the services offered by the MontainView company. Just check and then start the backup. Google collects your data in one or more zip files. The operation takes a few seconds or minutes depending on the size of the archive. You do not need to wait, you will receive an email when your archive is ready for download.
The archive, created by default in zip format, will be available for one week before it disappears. Google Takeout is particularly useful for recovering all your documents from Drive on your computer. By the way uploaded documents are offered in word format for docs, Excel for spreadsheets and Powerpoint for your slides. Practical.
Google Takeout can also be particularly useful for save on your computer a copy of all the photos you have archived on the Google cloud. You can recover all your images or just one album.
A simple and practical utility to create a personal backup of all your data on the servers of the ‘world company’.
Link: Google Takeout
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