Uploading Data to Alternative Services

Email

Gmail account

• Public Gmail accounts include 15GB of online storage for free. Additional storage can be purchased, starting at 100GB for $2/mo

• Emails can be directly imported from your ieee.org Google account through the Gmail settings. 

With a paid Office365

• Paid Office365 accounts, starting at $70/yr, come with 1TB of cloud storage and Outlook email client license for offline storage

• Import your Gmail to Office365/Outlook

Thunderbird

• A free email client that allows you to store emails locally

• Can be configured to continue to download incoming @ieee.org emails locally so that they can be removed from your online storage

• Import your Gmail to Thunderbird

Photos

Photos can be uploaded to alternate cloud services

• Gmail account

  • Public Gmail accounts (www.gmail.com) provide 15GB of online storage for free. Additional storage can be purchased, starting at 100GB for $2/mo.

• Other online services are available

  • The best photo storage and sharing sites in 2022 | Tom's Guide (tomsguide.com)

Drive

• Gmail account

  • Public Gmail accounts include Google Drive, with 15GB of online storage for free. Additional storage can be purchased, starting at 100GB for $2/mo

  • You can not transfer ownership of a Google Drive file directly to an external Google account. You can use Google Takeout to export the documents, or you can Share them to an external account, and then make a duplicate copy in that account.

• DropBox

  • Dropbox includes 2GB of storage for their free accounts. Additional storage can be purchased, starting at 2000GB for $10/mo

• Apple iCloud

  • Apple iCloud includes 5GB of storage. Additional storage can be purchased starting at 50GB for $1/mo

• Microsoft OneDrive

  • Microsoft OneDrive includes 5GB of storage for free, with additional storage available starting at 100GB for $2/mo