Issue: Moving your old contacts from your Student account to your Alumni account
Context: Google Contacts
Resolution:
- Sign into your Student account
- At the top left, click Mail > Contacts
- Click More > Export...
- If you have the new Google contacts preview enabled, you will be asked to move to the old Google Contacts in order to export. Click GO TO OLD CONTACTS.
- Click More > Export...
- Make sure All Contacts and Google CSV format are selected.
- Click Export
- The file will typically download to your Downloads folder, unless you have your default set to another location.
- Sign into your Alumni account
- At the top-left corner, click Gmail > Contacts
- Above the contacts list, click More > Import...
- If you have the new Google contacts preview enabled, you will be asked to move to the old Google Contacts in order to export. Click GO TO OLD CONTACTS.
- Click More > Import...
- Click Choose File
- Select the file that you downloaded from your student account
- Click Import
- When it's done, Gmail will display the number of contacts imported
- If there are duplicate contacts, you will be given the option to Find & Merge duplicates.