FOR HS SENIORS

SENIORS HAVE A PORTFOLIO OF WORK THAT THEY MAY WANT TO USE AFTER LEAVING PORT TOWNSEND SCHOOL DISTRICT. THIS PAGE SHOWS SENIORS HOW TO TRANSFER THEIR WORK TO THEIR PERSONAL GOOGLE ACCOUNT PRIOR TO GRADUATION.

Take care to transfer your files before the end of June.

How to Migrate Information from your

Port Townsend Google Account to a personal Google Account.

As students and staff use the school provided Google Apps accounts more, there's a lot of great work, writing, presentations, and more that graduating seniors and students leaving the district would like to "take with them". Google doesn't yet have a simple way to transfer everything from one account to another, but there are a few easy ways to get the information you want transferred over to a personal Google Account before leaving Port Townsend High School.

How to Transfer Google Drive Documents, Blogger Posts, Contacts, and More

1. Login to your existing Port Townsend Google Account
2. Visit Google Takeout and create an archive of your account data
3. Download the archive (which may be large depending on how much work is there)
4. Create a new personal Google Account or login with your existing personal Google Account
5. All Google Drive archives can be re-uploaded to your personal account, Contacts can be imported to the new account, and other information imported or uploaded to the new account

Link to Video How To

For questions, answers, and more information about Google Takeout, visit this frequently asked questions page.

How to Transfer Google Gmail using Mail Fetcher

With Your Existing Port Townsend School District Gmail Account:

1. Login to your existing Port Townsend Gmail Account
2. Click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
3. In the Forwarding and POP/IMAP section, make sure to select Enable POP for all mail.
   1. Set the Port to 995
   2. "uncheck" the leave a copy of retrieved message on the server option
   3. "check" the option for "Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail"
4. Scroll to the bottom and click the Save Changes button.

With Your New or Existing Personal Gmail Account:

Setting up Mail Fetcher:

1. Open Gmail and sign in with your new or existing personal Gmail Account.
2. Click the gear icon in the upper right, then select Settings.
3. Open the Accounts tab.
4. In the Check mail from other accounts (using POP3) section, click Add a POP3 mail account you own.
5. Enter the full email address of your Port Townsend School District Gmail, then click Next Step.
6. Enter your Port Townsend Gmail Password. Then enter pop.gmail.com for the POP Server.
7. Decide whether to:
   • Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server
   • Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail
   • Label incoming messages
   • Archive incoming messages
8. Click Add Account.
9. Depending on how quickly Google's servers are working, your mail will be copied over to your new email.

Google Takeout - more info

Upon leaving the school district (i.e. student graduation, student transfer, teacher leaving the district),

the user’s Google Apps account is suspended and eventually deleted.

Below are some instructions, links, and resources that will assist you in transferring your data to your new home.

Google Drive

If you wish to transfer Docs to another account outside of Bridgeport, you can choose to do so by downloading an archive of Docs via Google Drive or using an archiving application such as Google Takeout. After downloading the archive, you can then upload the files to another Gmail account. Click here for instructions for Google Drive, or here for Google Takeout.

Your Port Townsend School District Account will no longer by active by the end of June of your graduation year.

Take care to transfer your files before the end of June.