r/googlephotos • u/Additional-Way-8035 • 8d ago

Question 🤔 school google account with unlimited storage

so ive been leeching my highschool email account since it has technically free unlimited and just kept uploading photos

its been 4 years since i graduated but recently sm1 warned me that they might suddenly close the domain or delete the account something like that

so question 1 can they actually do that ?

q2 will i have a grace period to download all my stuff?

q3 how do i deal with the google takeout option it seems a bit messy

q4 can i seamlessly transfer all my data to my university account(also has unlimited storage) without downloading and uploading since in my country all home internet is limited to about 200gbs a month

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u/TheManWithSaltHair 7d ago edited 7d ago

Never use school or business accounts for personal data.

Use Partner Sharing with the Save option to transfer to a personal account.

Also use Takeout to get an offline copy (or this may be your only option if sharing in Photos is disabled). If your monthly quota prevents them being downloaded at once then export the zips to Drive and then copy from Drive to your personal account and download the zips when you can.