What Is Google Takeout: Here's The Complete Retail

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YOGYAKARTA - Google has a special service to move user data, namely Google Takeout. The following is a description of what Google Takeout is and its various features.

According to the company's official website, Google Takeout allows users to export and download your data from Google products that you use. This means that you can move or download information sourced in emails, documents, Calendar, Photos, YouTube videos, and other Google products.

Google Takeout is known as Download Your Data. It is a project from the Google Data Liberation Front that allows Google product users (such as YouTube and Gmail users) to export their data into downloaded data archives.

There are more than 30 Google services or products whose data can be exported. Some of the Google services or products include "Google++1s, Circles, Pages, Streams and posts", CHrome Syncmarks", Google Calendar apppointments, Gmail Data, Google Maps, Google Street View, Google Contacts, Google Drive Files, Google Fit, Google Photos, Google Google News, Google Play Store, Google Play Cinema, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Google Play Books metadata and notes, Google Groups, Google Hangouts, Google Hangouts On Air, Google Keep, Google Stadia, Google Tasks, Google Location History, and many more.

Reporting from Android Police, Google tracks and collects a lot of data about its users. They are able to track user search history, health data, YouTube activities, payment procedures, favorite books, emails, locations, and even the top smart home devices connected to Google accounts.

Google Takeout is an export tool that allows you to download information for local storage or transfer it to other services. This Google service is very useful if you work in the fields of business, organization, or educational institutions. Google Takeout is generally used to transfer employee data to other Google accounts when they leave the company.

Students also use it when they finish their college period at a university and want to download data from their existing Google ID. This is also a quick method to download data from Google Drive for local storage redundancy or to free up Drive space by archive old files.

Google Takeout provides You with the option to make various formats when choosing Google services that you want to export. For example, Google Docs can be exported as a DOCX file type and PDF, a general format that is usually easy to open.

Overall data, the types of files released by Google Takeout are "Zip" and "Tgz". Here are some reasons why you are required to use Google Takeout:

Export all Google Photosdian media files to external drives or local storage.

Create offline backups for your Google accounts and avoid losing data during ransomware attacks.

The transfer of Chrome markers, Google contacts, Google calendar events, as well as other relevant data to competing services such as Dropbox, OneDrive cloud storage, Outlook, and more.

You want to integrate data into a new account. You could decide to combine everything to one account, shift to a business account, or it could be time to stop the bad email address you have since school.

After the data export request ends on Google Takeout, you will receive an email notification containing a link to the folder where your data has been selected. If you select 'Send download link via email' then the user will be directed to a folder containing data on Google Takeout to download your data.

You can also move data archives to several cloud services such as Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive. That was the description of what Google Takeout is, the feature is very useful, isn't it?

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