There is a project called data liberation project which aims at exporting or liberating the information from Google using a simple export feature. Here is a quick ‘how to‘ guide on ‘how to export all the documents from Google Docs‘ (PDF, WORD, EXCEL, PPT etc).
If you want to export all documents at once:
– Click on ‘All items‘ in your Google Docs on the main Google Docs page. Then you click the first button in the menu bar and choose “Select All visible (xxx) from”. Now all files will be highlighted
– Now, Click on ‘More Action‘ –> ‘Export‘
In the dialog you can now specify in what format the various types (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, PDFs, and store files (like bookmarks from Chrome)) wants and what file types to be loaded.
After clicking ‘ Next‘, Google will automatically create a zip of all files. This process might take several minutes, depending on the number of documents you’ve stored in Google Docs. If you don’t want to wait untill the zipping process is complete, you can simply click on send to mail and it’ll automatically send all the zipped file via email..
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