If you would simply like to change the name that’s used on your outgoing messages, follow these steps:

1. Click Settings at the top of the myEmail page, and open the Accounts tab.
2. In the Send mail as: section, locate the email address you’d like to edit.
3. Click edit next to the address.
4. Change the Name field as desired, and click ‘Save changes.’

To have your email username changed please contact your respective area

1. Employees: Contact Human Resources
2. Students: Contact Registrar’s Office
3. Applicants: Contact Admissions & Recruitment
4. Alumni:  Contact Alumni Relations

Transferring using Google Takeout

Students and staff have access to use Google Takeout to transfer files upon a name change request.

What Cannot Be Transferred/ Downloaded?

1. Files in Shared drives

2. Files in My Drive where you have viewer access

3. Files for which the owner has turned off the download, print, and copy options

Transfer Email and My Drive Files to another Google Account

Important: To copy content that other people have shared with you, make sure those files have been added to your My Drive and are not only available in “Shared with me”.

Sign into your Lakehead Gmail account and go to takeout.google.com/transfer. Enter the email address of the destination account (new account). Select Send code.

Check your original Gmail account for the confirmation email, and in the email select Get confirmation code. A new tab will open with a code.

Return to takeout.google.com/transfer and enter the code and choose Verify. Choose the content you’d like to copy and select Start transfer.

Details about the process:

The copy process usually takes a few hours but can take up to a week depending on the amount of content.

Copied files may appear in batches in the destination Google account during the copy process.

When the process is complete, you will receive a confirmation email to your personal Gmail account.

Viewing copied files:

Gmail: Copied Gmail content will appear with a label containing your Lakehead account name and the date you started the copy process.

Drive: Copied content will be in a folder labeled with your Lakehead account name and the date you started the copy process.

Download all of your Google Account data (Alternative)

Google Takeout allows you to download any of your data associated with its services.

While signed into your Lakehead account, browse to takeout.google.com.

1.Select the data you wish to download, one of the available formats, and click Next Step.

2.Choose your preferred delivery method, Frequency, file type, and size, then Create export.

3.Once the export is completed, it will be delivered to the specified location.