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Download your data - Google Account Help

Download your data - Google Account Help
Why is it important that I have access to this data? It's important that you can access your Google data when you want it, where you want it - whether is it to import it into another service or just create your own copy for your archives. People usually don't look to see if they can get their data out of a product until they decide that they want to leave. For this reason, we always encourage you to ask these three questions before starting to use a product that will store your data: Can I get my data out in an open, interoperable, portable format?How much is it going to cost to get my data out? The ideal answers to these questions are: Yes.Nothing more than I'm already paying.As little as possible. There shouldn't be an additional charge to export your data. What is this? Why does it take so long to create an archive? Why was my archive broken into multiple zip files? Why do my archives expire? My archive hasn’t expired, but I can’t download it. What formats are used for my exported data?

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