What's imported from Gmail and Google Drive?

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Use the data import tool to copy personal Gmail messages and Google Drive files to your organization's Google Workspace account. The data import process doesn't delete or modify existing Gmail or Drive data. Instead, it copies the data to the user's Workspace account.

Imported features & data

  • Email messages—All email messages, including drafts and sent items, across all labels and sublabels. You can choose whether to import spam and deleted messages, and you can exclude specific labels.
  • Attachments—Attachments import to Gmail unless the message and attachment together are larger than 25 MB, or the file type is blocked by Gmail. For details, go to File types blocked in Gmail.
  • Status—Read and unread status of email messages.
  • Labels and sublabels
  • Stars
  • Files and folders—All Google Drive files and folders, including photos, images, drawings, audio files, videos, PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, archives, sites, and Markdown files.

What's not imported?

The following Google Drive data isn't imported:

  • Shortcuts.
  • Previous versions of files. Only the latest version of a file imports.
  • Files created in Workspace apps, such as Google Sheets, Docs, or Forms, when the source Gmail account is 100% full. Other types of files uploaded to Google Drive still import.
  • Files or folders modified in Drive after the initial import. Delta imports only include files and folders that are newly created or that didn't import in the initial data import.


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