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I’d much prefer going through an additional security measure than having to continuously transfer files over the course of a week. To be perfectly honest, if someone managed to breach your Google account, they could do a lot more damage by accessing your saved financial information. I understand that having a “transfer all” button could be a privacy breach and an easy way to steal everything from someone’s account, but surely there could be an additional security measure implemented when people want to use that feature. Is it not just possible to have a feature that allows me to fully transfer ownership of all files from my old account to my new one? Manually transferring each file, and being blocked from doing too many at once if I incorrectly calculate the unclear sharing quota, is ridiculous. Some will need to permanently swap accounts at some point in their life for one reason or another. There should be an easy export and import option for this. This makes sense in the case of a random account attempting to force ownership on you without you knowing, but the issue is that the sharing quota limits how many files you can accept ownership of within that time frame. I first needed to share the file, and even when selecting “transfer ownership,” I had to accept the permission on my new account. Not only that, but there’s no “transfer ownership” button available immediately. Switching everything over in Google Drive was the most cumbersome part of this process, as Google enforces a quota limiting the number of items you can transfer ownership of within a day.

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I have not figured out how to prevent this. Whenever I open the Gmail app on my phone and click the three bars on the top left to show my labels, it will put my old email address at the top of “recent labels,” even though I’ve selected the option to hide it. Unfortunately, that didn’t prevent it from showing up somewhere specific. I felt pretty hopeless, as having to manually rename old emails to get rid of my old address was not remotely feasible.īut after a decent bit of tinkering, I managed to program a system that would automatically label every email from that old source as “Momo.” I also made sure to hide the label that showed my old email address, which means I ideally never have to see it again. All that change did was rename the label on those old emails rather than automatically labeling new emails from that source. I initially thought it was as simple as renaming the label so I wouldn’t have to see that deadname anymore, but this did not work. Seeing it every time I open my Gmail is not a good feeling. This wouldn’t be a big deal normally, but that email address features the deadname I’ve been looking to abandon. But even when that’s done, and you’ve managed to forward everything between accounts, Google’s automatic label system is pretty frustrating to deal with.Īll of my old emails were successfully being sent to my new account, but after I got fifty-or-so, it automatically labeled them with my old email address attached. But that simply required a quick Google search. I don’t have many negative things to say about this process, as swapping everything over was quite intuitive - outside of the forwarding option being hidden behind a very specific menu. Beyond having to swap everything over, the most challenging part is informing those who email you about the switch.

And trying to get all of your emails moved from a single spot is pretty difficult. While we all use our Google account for a number of things, it’s primarily an email service. But it is kind of bizarre how unforgiving it is for those who want to rebrand themselves, especially trans individuals looking to abandon their deadname. This makes sense within the context of the system, as it’s not as simple as a username. Google has never made it much easier, as you cannot change your email address after it's been set in stone. Beyond it being funny, the whole situation is exhausting. It is amusing when I’m emailing someone and they not only use that deadname, but also misspell it. Now, even when I sign off on emails responding to people as “Momo,” they still use that deadname, and it frustrated me for many months. The issue boiled to the surface when I came out as a trans woman this year, as that email address features my misspelled deadname. I didn’t care that people were misspelling that name, as I do not have any attachment to it. But that’s not why I decided to open a new email address.

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