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All Students (Currently Pursuing UG/PG/Ph.D.) Google Accounts

Students currently pursuing degrees at Thapar University have 3GB of storage for their Gmail accounts. Alumni accounts are limited to 1GB of storage. Google Drive and Google Photos storage has been disabled for all student and alumni accounts. Users can check their storage usage on the Google Drive website and back up their Gmail, Drive, and Photos content to a ZIP file on Google Takeout, which may take hours or days to complete depending on the amount of content. An email will be sent once the backup is ready to download.

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All Students (Currently Pursuing UG/PG/Ph.D.) Google Accounts

Students currently pursuing degrees at Thapar University have 3GB of storage for their Gmail accounts. Alumni accounts are limited to 1GB of storage. Google Drive and Google Photos storage has been disabled for all student and alumni accounts. Users can check their storage usage on the Google Drive website and back up their Gmail, Drive, and Photos content to a ZIP file on Google Takeout, which may take hours or days to complete depending on the amount of content. An email will be sent once the backup is ready to download.

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Manpreet Singh
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FAQs

A) How much storage do I have now available with my thapar.edu google account?

Please refer to the following tables for storage limits for Students/Alumni:

All Students ( Currently Pursuing UG/PG/Ph.D.) Google Accounts

Sr. No. Google Service Storage Remarks

1 Gmail 3GB Backup you emails Immediately

Service will be discontinued. Backup your data


2 Google Drive Disabled
Immediately
Service will be discontinued. Take your backup
3 Google Photos Disabled
immediately

Alumni (Former Students) Google Accounts


Sr. No. Google Service Storage Remarks

1 Gmail 1 GB Backup you emails Immediately

Service will be discontinued. Backup your data


2 Google Drive Disabled
Immediately
Service will be discontinued. Take your backup
3 Google Photos Disabled
immediately
B) How to check my Google storage space usage of Thapar.edu account?
1. Open this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/m y-drive
2. Login your Thapar.edu account. If already logged in, choose the Thapar account
from top right side of the web-browser.

3. Go to the setting option from top right side of the web-browser and you will
see the total used storage.

C) How can I take the backups of GMail, Google drive, Google Photos etc.?
1. For backup, click the link: https://takeout.google.com/
2. Login your Thapar.edu account. If already logged in choose the Thapar account
from top right side of the web-browser.
Note: Export a copy of content in your Google Account to back it up or use it with
a service outside of Google.
3. Select/Deselect (with check box) the backup option as per your need and click the
next step mentioned below:
4. Choose file type, frequency & destination:
a. Choose Frequency/Export as per your need.
b. File type & size: ZIP
c. Exports file size as per your backup size.
5. Export progress: Google is creating a copy of files from the selected products. This
process can take a long time (possibly hours or days) to complete. You'll receive
an email when your export is done. The contents of the email are mentioned
below:

6. Click the button “Download Your Files”. It will ask for account username and
password and start downloading.

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