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Export your data from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites, Drive, Forms, Vids & Jamboard

You can export and download your data from Google Drive, which includes items from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites, Drive, Forms, Vids, and Jamboard. You can create an archive to keep for your records or use the data in another service. You can download files that haven't been deleted. Learn how to download your data.

If you're using a work or school account, some data might not be available for download. If you're a super administrator of your Google domain, you can download or migrate your organization’s data, including emails, calendars, documents, and sites. Learn how to export your organization's Google Workspace data.

Important: Attempting to export files that exceed the maximum size limits may cause your export to fail.

The following content is included in your download:

Google Docs

  • Document text
  • Open and resolved comments, and open and resolved suggestions
  • Scripts created in Apps Script
  • Bookmarks and page numbers
  • Charts and tables
  • Drawings
  • Images. Downloaded images might be lower quality
  • Named revisions
  • Published revisions
  • Words added to your spelling suggestions dictionary
  • Tasks

Google Sheets

  • Open and resolved comments
  • Scripts created in Apps Script
  • Charts and tables
  • Drawings
  • Images. Downloaded images might be lower quality
  • Named revisions
  • Published revisions
  • Notes
  • Cell content, like text and formulas
  • Words added to your spelling suggestions dictionary

Google Slides

  • Open and resolved comments
  • Scripts created in Apps Script
  • Charts and tables
  • Embedded video and audio
  • Images. Downloaded images might be lower quality
  • Named revisions
  • Published revisions
  • Presentation content, like slides and text
  • Q&A
  • Words added to your spelling suggestions dictionary
  • Metadata for any Slides recordings

Google Drawings

  • Open and resolved comments
  • Drawings
  • Images. Downloaded images might be lower quality
  • Named revisions
  • Published revisions
  • Words added to your spelling suggestions dictionary

New Sites

  • Draft sites
  • Published sites
  • Embedded URLs and full pages
  • Table of Contents
  • Image Carousels
  • Text and collapsible text
  • Buttons
  • Custom page paths and navigation links
  • Themes, fonts, colors, logos, favicon

Classic Sites

  • Site content, like text, images, links, table of contents, and embedded HTML
  • Navigation bars
  • Themes, fonts, colors
  • Announcements
  • File cabinet and attachments
  • Lists
  • Page templates
  • Site owners

Google Drive

  • Email Layouts
  • Files and folders
  • Current version of each file
  • File versions marked as "Keep forever"
  • File title
  • Shared drive resource ID & subfolder names
  • Drive for desktop files
  • Trashed content
  • Metadata for each exported file, such as whether it's starred, file descriptions, and folder colors
  • Workspace names
  • Custom shared drive background images
  • Shared drive names
  • Meet video recordings and chat transcripts
  • File comments

Google Forms

  • Form title
  • Description
  • Questions
  • Question validation settings
  • Question grading settings
  • Embedded images
  • Form responses
  • Quiz score
  • Manual quiz feedback
  • Draft responses

Jamboard

  • Drawing strokes
  • Drawing elements, like sticky notes, stickers, and autodraw shapes
  • Embedded images
  • Embedded PDF pages
  • Backgrounds

Google Vids

  • Open and resolved comments (exported as a .html file)
  • Embedded and recorded video and audio
  • Images. Downloaded images might be of lower quality
  • Named revisions
  • Video content (like scenes and text) exported as MP4
  • Words added to your spelling suggestions dictionary
  • User-uploaded scripts
  • User-uploaded captions
Important: This article refers to Vids, a product available for select customers to test in Alpha and users in Google Workspace Labs, which is an invite only program for users to try new AI features. Users with Vids access can invite any user with a Workspace account to find, edit, and collaborate on a video. Workspace Labs is currently available to trusted testers in English and may not be available in your country or region.
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