Please read all information below.
Once your account is disabled it will not be reopened to
retrieve files that were left behind.
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When students graduate or leave the district their Google account is disabled. Any files you want to keep, especially any college information and communications will no longer be accessible to you. It should be assumed your account will be disabled at the end of your final day. Below are some procedures you'll want to follow well ahead of your last day with GCISD. These procedures can take several days depending on the volume of data. Please allow ample time.
After 12 months your Google account is permanently deleted.
Do not share your files with your personal Google account as a method of transferring them. You will not be able to make your personal account the owner of the files and you will lose access to them once your account is disabled.
Download files to a Personal Computer
Drive Files:
1. Select only the files and folders you really want to keep and move them all into a single folder.
2. Log in to your GCISD account on your own personal computer and download that folder. Google will zip it all together before downloading.
3. Either store the files on your personal computer or unzip the file and re-upload to your personal Google Drive, Dropbox, or other cloud storage. Note: you'll want to be sure you have enough available storage space in your cloud storage before uploading or purchased more space.
Alternatively, if you don't have a personal computer you can follow the steps above to download the files to your district computer then copy them to an external flash drive. This can take quite a long time depending on the volume of data. Please allow ample time for file transfers.
Note: flash drives are inexpensive and can be found just about anywhere. 16Gb should be more than enough storage for the average student and is less than $10 at Walmart.
Gmail:
Any emails you want to keep can be saved in a PDF format to your flash drive. To save to PDF, open the email you want to save then click the small printer icon at the top right of the email.
In the next window, change the destination to Save as PDF then click Save.
Click on your flash drive that should be inserted in your laptop. The drive letter may be different than the example below. Give the email a name then click Save.
Repeat these steps with each of the emails you want to save.
If you have questions about this please submit a help ticket and we'll do our best to assist you. We wish you the best in your next adventure!