How to Copy Gmail Folder to Hard Drive on Windows & Mac OS?

Publish Date: April 09, 2022 By: Posted in: Backup, Gmail

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Google Gmail allowed users to store tons of emails with their attachments and also contacts, calendar & document, but then what happen why users need an application to make backup or need an application to store emails, contacts, calendar & document into hard drive?

Now a day's everyone communicates through emails, contacts, calendar & document over distance, many users use emails, contacts, calendar & document to transfer data. Thus it's became a responsibility of the users to protect it from the unwanted lose. There are many activities which lead to loss of data sometime hackers hack your Gmail account and delete the crucial information. The safest way to protect data is to transfer the data into hard drive or backup Google Gmail to hard drive.

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Read instruction before taking backup...
  1. IMAP must be enabled on Google Account. Read More
  2. User Account should not have 2-Steps Verification. Read More
  3. Allow Less Secure Apps. Read More

What are the Need of Copying Gmail Folder to Hard Drive?

Gmail is the free email service provided by the Google which enables to send or receives messages and stores contacts, calendar & document on Gmail cloud. Gmail account of most of the users contains important documents, private pictures, bank emails, etc. All the Gmail account data can be at risk, so it’s better to copy Gmail folder to hard drive for safe keeping. Google has provided it’s own tool to copy your Gmail data, i.e., Google Takeout. This tool can backup complete Gmail account but has many limitations.

“Rebecca Allardice asks on Reddit – I was trying to copy my Gmail folder using Google Takeout, but the process get failed. After sending request to Google for creating Gmail archive, I waited for almost a day. Then, due to some reasons, the downloading process of archive was keep failing. After 5 attempts, when I tried to download archive, it said ‘Daily Maximum limit to download the archive is reached’. Can anybody tell me how can I solve this problem.”

Like Rebecca’s problem, there are much more problems with Google Takeout method. It is highly recommended to use professional solution for copying important Gmail folders.

Easily Copy Gmail Folder from User Account To Hard Drive

With Our Organization Gmail Backup Software

Safest and the easiest way to know how to copy Gmail folder to hard drive via our organization Gmail Mailbox Backup Software. With named software users can safely and accurately create backup of emails as well as contacts, documents, calendar & attachments. Once users create backup for their data, they become liable to transfer or change the data stored in the account without talking much care about the backup folder created.

Enhance Accessibility Of The Email Data Without Net Connectivity

Once users start the backup process, the entire database is backed up in the Outlook PST file, EML, MBOX file format. Thus users can access the entire database without net connection also. Our application works as a tool which will help you to access the Gmail data from desktop itself.

Incremental Backup Feature

This tool provides incremental backup option which allows users to skip already backup data and only copy new or updated emails and other data from Gmail account.

Key Elements of Gmail Backup Software: Choose Wisely

Some of the key features of the software are as follow which makes it a dependable application:

  • Allow users to create backup according to the date defined and allow users to create backup and delete emails for free up server space.
  • Users can not only create backup of email and save into PST file format they can also save it into MBOX and EML file format.
  • All the contacts saved in can be converted into VCF file format.
  • All the calendar saved in can be converted into ICS file format.
  • Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, excel file etc attached in Google Drive will remain saved in their original format

Steps to Copy Gmail Folder to Hard Drive

  1. Download and Install backup Solution
  2. Enter the Gmail Account Credentials and Login
  3. Select the Category: Emails, Contacts, Calendars, Documents & Apply Filter
  4. Choose the Gmail Folder using Filter Option
  5. Click on Start button to copy and download Gmail account data.