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I don't know what specific issues you're having, but for me I can simply do a select-all in Google Drive, right click and hit Download. After some time of proc
by paranoidrobot 6y ago
I don't know what specific issues you're having, but for me I can simply do a select-all in Google Drive, right click and hit Download.
After some time of processing it'll eventually give me a .zip which contains all the documents and files. Google Docs documents are exported as MS Word .docx files. I don't have any spreadsheets to hand, but I believe they're exported as .xlsx format files too.
e: I see Google Takeout also allows you to export these, too in choice of formats: https://takeout.google.com/ https://takeout.google.com/
- woofie11 6y agoYeah. It's pretty easy. Google Takeout is great. BACK UP YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT PERIODICALLY. GOOGLE CAN AND DOES RANDOMLY DISABLE THEM WITH THEIR CHAOS MONKEY ACCOUNT THWACKER. If they detect suspicious activity -- and their algorithms aren't particularly good here -- they WILL close your account, wipe your data, and there is no support.
- beardbound 6y agoFear of that is why I migrated all of my primary stuff off of Google during lockdown while I had more time.I used everything google had too at the time, even google Fi. My services are a bit more spread out now, but they are also more robust and don’t have a single catastrophic point of failure, besides my fragile body.
- angrygoat 6y agoAh, thanks – it sounds like it's better than when I was bitten by this (three or four years ago.)