Unity Christian Online Accounts

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1 Unity Christian Online Accounts Transfer Guide

2 Table of Contents 1. Creating a personal Gmail account 2. Transferring Contacts Between Accounts 3. Downloading Youtube and Drive Data a. Uploading Youtube Videos to Personal Account b. Uploading Drive Data to Personal Account 4. Transferring Blogger Blogs 5. Transferring Sites

3 Creating a New Personal Gmail Account 1. Go to gmail.com 2. Click on CREATE AN ACCOUNT in the upper right

4 3. a) Fill in the resulting form (You may skip mobile phone number and current address if you would like) b) Click the check box next to I agree to the Google... Then click Next step

5 4. On the resulting screen click Continue to Gmail 5. You have successfully created your personal Gmail account!

6 Transferring Contacts Between Accounts To make this part easier, you may want to sign into your school gmail account in one browser (ex. Safari) and your personal in another (ex. Chrome). 1. While signed into your school account go to gmail.com 2. Click on the small arrow next to Mail to open the drop-down, then choose Contacts

7 3. Now, a little ways to the right of the button we just manipulated, choose More 4. Then choose Export...

8 5. At the resulting pop up, make sure that the All Contacts and Google CSV format radio buttons are selects (as pictured), then click Export 6. This should start the download of a small file called google.csv, google-1.csv, or something similar

9 7. Now, lets switch to your personal gmail account to import the contacts file we just downloaded. Follow steps 1 and 2 of this part of the tutorial to get back to the Contacts section 8. Click on the More drop-down button like we did in step 3 of this part of the tutorial, then choose Import At the resulting pop-up click the Choose File button

10 10. Now, navigate to your Downloads folder and double click on the google.csv file we downloaded just moments ago 11. Then click the Import button and let Google do its thing

11 12. When completed, you should now see a new group in your contacts with all the transferred contacts Congratulations! You can move on to the next section!

12 Downloading Youtube and Drive Data In this section we will accomplish two parts with one quick action 1. While signed in to your Unity Gmail account visit google.csv.com/takeout

13 2. Click the Choose services tab to the right of the Takeout heading 3. Now, select the Drive and Youtube buttons under the Select a service: section, then click the Create Archive button at the bottom

14 4. It will now take you to a progress page, where it shows it packaging up your files for download. The time it takes to package up everything will depend on how many files you have in Drive, and how many videos you have uploaded to Youtube 5. Once it is done it will say complete in green at the top of the archive section. Click Download 6. After clicking Download it will ask you to sign in again to verify your identity before you start downloading all of your files

15 7. After signing in, your download should start. It will download a file titled [your ]-takeout.zip. If you are using Safari, it will likely automatically open and expand the.zip file to a folder titled [your ]-takeout. If you are not using Safari, simply double click the.zip file in your Downloads to expand it to a folder.

16 8. Inside this folder you will see two folders; Youtube and Drive. Inside the Drive folder you should see your files and folders you had set up in your school account. In the Youtube folder you should see all of your Youtube video files Congratulations! You have downloaded your files to your computer. If you wish to reupload these to your personal Gmail account, proceed with the next sections!

17 Uploading Your Youtube Videos to Your Personal Account 1. While signed in to your Personal Gmail account: visit youtube.com 2. Click the Upload button at the top of the page 3. It will now ask you to create a Youtube Channel (unless you are using an existing personal account and have already created one). Simply fill out the information and click Continue to upload 4. You will be taken to the upload page where we can upload the files

18 5. Now, open the Youtube folder from the [your ]-takeout folder in Finder. Select all of the video files, and drag them into the upload box on the web page 6. The upload will start, and it could take some time to complete depending on your internet connection speed and how many videos you have to upload Congratulations! Your Youtube videos are now on your personal account! Continue with the following sections to complete your transfer of accounts

19 Uploading Drive Data to Personal Account For this part you will need to use Chrome. Drive is only capable of uploading multiple files/folders from the Chrome web browser 1. While signed in to your personal Gmail account: visit drive.google.com 2. Click on the up pointing arrow on the lefthand side of the page, then choose Folder...

20 3. At the resulting pop-up, navigate to your Downloads folder, then to the [your ]- takeout folder, then double click on the Drive folder inside. 4. The entire Drive folder will begin to upload. The amount of time the upload will take depends on the speed of your internet connection and how many files you have from your school Drive account.

21 5. You can reorganize your files as you please after the upload completes. You could simply rename the uploaded Drive folder to High School Archive if you wish to contain your High School work separate from your personal files. Congratulations! Your Drive files have been migrated to your personal account! Continue with the following sections to complete your account transfer!

22 Transferring Blogger Blogs 1. While signed in to your Unity Gmail account: visit blogger.com 2. Click on the drop down arrow highlighted in the following screenshot: 3. In the drop down list that results, scroll down and choose Settings

23 4. At the screen that follows click the + Add Authors link in the Permissions section 5. A text box should now appear. Here, type your personal address, then press Invite Authors

24 6. An invite has now been sent to your personal account. We need to now sign into your personal Gmail account and visit gmail.com 7. You should see a new from your school account inviting you to contribute to your blog. Open the Inside will be a long link, click on the link to take you to the invitation page.

25 9. At the invitation page, simply click the orange Accept Invitation button 10. You are now a Contributor to the blog, but we need to make you an admin to make the transition complete. Sign back into your Unity Gmail account and go back to blogger.com 11. Enter the settings of the blog by repeating steps 2 and 3 of this section.

26 12. In the Permissions section you should now see your personal Gmail account labeled as an Author. Click on the Author text/drop-down and choose Admin That s it! If you have multiple blogs, simply edit the settings of each blog by following the same steps for each blog.

27 Transferring Sites 1. While signed in to your Unity Gmail account: visit sites.google.com 2. Click on the site that you wish to transfer 3. Click on the More button at the top-right of the page

28 4. In the resulting drop-down list, click Sharing and Permissions

29 5. Towards the bottom of the resulting screen there is a text box. Type your personal Gmail address here. Then change the drop down to the right of the text box from Can edit to Is owner. Then hit the green Share & save button. Your site is now transferred! If you have more sites you wish to transfer, simply choose a different site name in step 2 and proceed through the steps again.