Thursday
May062010
Why Is It So Hard To Move From Gmail to Google Apps?
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 3:36PM
I have decided that I have invested enough of myself into this domain/blog that I am going to take a leap of faith and transfer my main means of communication from holdenpage@gmail.com to holdenpage@pagesaresocial.com.
I thought this would be a quick and painless process. After all, I am still going to use Google Apps for all of this, transition should be simple, right?
Wrong.
Turns out there is no nice "migrate" or "transfer" button to move your Gmail data (contacts, filters, e-mails, and all that jazz) to your Google Apps account. Instead, you need to go through all of this. So what I thought would take a max of 24 hours, mostly due to my host/Google recognizing MX record changes, the process is going to take about a week. This will also include transferring my Google Documents, Reader settings, and other data to this "new identity".
You don't realize how much data Google has under your Gmail identity until you need to move it.
Now, don't lecture me on how many ways I can get around this. In short, I am anal, and I want all my data under this new identity. I am completely aware of the options I have. Just so happens what I thought was the easy option, and the option I wanted, is a bit harder and more time consuming then I originally believed.
Bummer.
I just find it fascinating that Google hasn't created a syncing tool for situations like these. After all, it doesn't seem that uncommon to do, plenty of searches and threads are open on the matter.
It will be an interesting week transferring my data, and I am sure I will tweet all about.
I thought this would be a quick and painless process. After all, I am still going to use Google Apps for all of this, transition should be simple, right?
Wrong.
Turns out there is no nice "migrate" or "transfer" button to move your Gmail data (contacts, filters, e-mails, and all that jazz) to your Google Apps account. Instead, you need to go through all of this. So what I thought would take a max of 24 hours, mostly due to my host/Google recognizing MX record changes, the process is going to take about a week. This will also include transferring my Google Documents, Reader settings, and other data to this "new identity".
You don't realize how much data Google has under your Gmail identity until you need to move it.
Now, don't lecture me on how many ways I can get around this. In short, I am anal, and I want all my data under this new identity. I am completely aware of the options I have. Just so happens what I thought was the easy option, and the option I wanted, is a bit harder and more time consuming then I originally believed.
Bummer.
I just find it fascinating that Google hasn't created a syncing tool for situations like these. After all, it doesn't seem that uncommon to do, plenty of searches and threads are open on the matter.
It will be an interesting week transferring my data, and I am sure I will tweet all about.
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