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There is no easy way to do this. Email is the hardest part.
This is the guide I followed:
http://base6.com/2009/06/15/migrating-from-gmail-to-google-apps/
Exact Steps I followed:
Documents (Not in the guide):
Share all of your existing documents with full privileges with your new apps account.
Email (From the comments on the guide):
In your Gmail ...
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Google has a page called Managing and using Google products: Transferring product data which will probably contain the most up-to-date information.
Currently they have guides on how to transfer data from the following services:
AdWords
Blogger
Bookmarks
Contacts
FeedBurner
iGoogle
Maps: Saved Locations
Reader
YouTube
... and how to share data with the ...
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It is not currently possible to merge Google accounts, but it can be done on a per product basis. Otherwise, you will need to find workarounds that are not official Google protocol.
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To transfer ownership of all documents from one user to another:
Sign in to the Google Admin panel.
Click the Settings tab, and then click Drive and Docs in the left column.
Click the Tools tab and complete the Document ownership transfer section:
In the From field, enter the user name of the current owner and select the user’s domain.
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Check out Zoho sheet: http://sheet.zoho.com/vbaobjectexplorer.do and http://vbmacros.wiki.zoho.com/
I haven't experimented with it but they claim some VBA support. Looks interesting.
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I just went through this transition. Some stuff is really easy to do - others are hard. Google provides info on how to move things across at their Help Centre, with a list of what can be migrated and how:
Data Transfer
You can transfer information from one
account to another for the following
products. For any other product,
transferring ...
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In order to move my files from my school account to my personal Google account, I first share the folders to my personal account, then select all of the files and 'Make a Copy' from the 'More actions' tab.
I then log into my personal account and move the copies into a folder on that account. I can then remove the ownership from the original account and ...
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This isn't ideal but it appears that you have already exhausted the solutions that can be found within Google Groups:
What about bulk download and bulk upload of files?
This article explains how to bulk download all your Google Documents and this one explains how to batch upload Google Documents
As I said it's not ideal but this rather important feature ...
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GMail has recently updated the import settings when pulling from another account to include contacts and mail messages. The steps provided by Google GMail Help are found here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=117173
This may not be as complete a solution as scoopdreams provides but is an option for basic migration.
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I haven't tried this, but worth a short. Head over to POP/Forwarding settings from your previous Gmail account. Select "Enable POP for all mail"
Now, add your previous Gmail account to your Google Apps mail account from your Google Apps settings. This will setup emails to be fetched periodically from your old account. This should also import all your ...
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Actual Answer: No.
Close but slightly off answer:
The closest thing to merging accounts at this time is linking multiple accounts. There is a nice article linked below, but the basic steps are:
Navigate to google.com/accounts and sign in with what you want to be your primary account
Personal Settings -> Multiple Sign-In -> save
At the top where your ...
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Use IMAPsync. It's exactly what you're looking for. I successfully used it a few years ago. I don't know for sure about the special characters issue, since I don't have any labels with special characters, but the other issues you brought up work flawlessly. I ran IMAPsync on an underpowered GUI-less virtual server that the company I was leaving was ...
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You would have to export and then import it into Firefox. Then, use the Google Firefox toolbar to sync it to another Google account. It's a round about way, but that's what's recommended.
If you don't want to meddle with your existing bookmarks on Firefox, you might want to import them into a new Firefox profile created for this purpose.
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Here's a tip about filters in Gmail.
I'm migrating Gmail -> Apps using POP and found it pretty inconvenient when all (auto-)labels were gone.
As many Gmail users do, I use filters which automatically labels incoming email.
Now: Google Labs to the rescue!
I enabled this on both my accounts:
"Filter import/export
by Luke B, Slava C, and the Data Liberation ...
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There are no general rules for doing this. It is all in the hands of the blog platform developers, blog platform supporters or in yours.
For example, if your target blog is Wordpress, you can take a look to this page: Wordpress » Importing Content.
For this reason is really important choose carefully the platform where you plan to initiate a new ...
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Assuming there is no standard export file from your old blog, and an import routine in the new blog system that can work with it, the only idea I can think of is getting the old blogs RSS feed (assuming you can make it give an RSS of all the posts, something that is not always possible).
You will loose all your comments BTW.
I know that WordPress (the self ...
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