

Say you want to keep a copy of personal emails you receive in your work account. The easiest way to do that is with Zapier's automated Google workflows that can copy new data to another app as soon as it's added to your Google account. Or, you could automate it to make sure you always have a second copy of your most important data. You could export your data with Google Takeout every month, and perhaps set a calendar reminder to make sure you don't forget. With most of our important data in apps nowadays, though, it's equally important to back up your apps. You back up your computer regularly (or at least you should). Now that your data is right where you want it, it's time to think about the future. Use Zapier to automatically save your Google data Get more out of your Gmail account with our guide to 30 Best Gmail tips and tricks. And you can search through all of your old messages or reply to restart an old conversation, just as you could in your old account.

Once it's done syncing, open your new Gmail account, and you'll see all of your old emails organized with labels in lieu of your old folders. Leave the app for a while and let it sync it can take a while to copy everything over if your email account has years worth of messages. Once your emails have synced, select the folders of emails that you want to move from your old account, and drag them over to your new G Suite or Gmail account. Just login to your new Google account and your old email account in a desktop email app like Outlook on a PC or Mail on Mac. But, there's a workaround-the same workaround to export your emails from most email accounts. There's actually no built-in way to import emails on your own to Gmail.

The best way to import emails to Gmail is to drag-and-drop the messages in Just sync the emails to your mail app, then jump to the next step. You'll find similar options in the Calendar and Contacts apps as well. Open Mail, select Mailbox, then select Export Mailbox and follow the directions.

Click the link, login again, and you can download a zip file of all your exported data. Exporting all your data can take a while, so Google will email you when everything's done.
