Overview

Effective October 1, 2025, all retiree accounts will be transitioned to email-only access. Only Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts will remain available, though Calendar and Contacts will have limited functionality. Features that are typically included in a personal Google account, such as Google Drive (file storage) will no longer be available through your retiree account. Use the instructions on this page to prepare for the transition by migrating data associated with services that will no longer be available to a personal Google account.

Creating a Personal Google Account

Many of the instructions on this page require that you have a personal Google account. If you do not already have a personal Google account, please visit Create a Google Account for instructions.

Migrating Google Services

Google Drive (G: Drive)

Check the storage associated with your UWF Google Drive and your personal Google account before starting this process. Personal Google accounts come with 15GB of storage by default. If your UWF Google account contains more than 15GB, consider the following options prior to starting the migration:

Deleting files from your Google Drive that you no longer need
Downloading files locally to your device (keep in mind local files will not automatically be backed up)
Purchasing additional storage on your personal account through Google

To copy your Google Drive files to a personal Gmail account, visit the link below:

Copy content from your school account to another account

Please Note: By default, the migration process will select both Drive and Gmail. Upon arriving at step 3 of this process (shown in screenshot below), we strongly recommend selecting to only migrate Google Drive content.

UWF Public Knowledge Base > Migrating Google Data for UWF Retirees > googlefiletransfer.png (Image Showing to Select Drive Files on Step 3)

Contacts

To migrate your contacts to a personal Google account, visit the link below:

Export or back up contacts

Download an Archive of Google Service Data

To download an archive of your data stored across multiple Google Services*, visit the link below:

Download your data

*Note: This data may require additional steps to import into another service or account.

FAQs

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Please email helpdesk@uwf.edu from your UWF email address requesting that it be deleted. You may use the instructions above copy content from your school account to another account prior to its deletion.