How to Export Gmail Emails Without Using Google Takeout

• User Case
• Why Export Gmail Emails Without Using Google Takeout?
• Three Workarounds: How to Export Gmail Emails Without Using Google Takeout
  1. MultCloud- Bulk Email Download [All At Once] 🔥
  2. MultCloud- Bulk Email Migration [All At Once] 🔥
  3. Gmail inbuilt Print Feature [One Email at a Time]
• Conclusion

User Case

Why Export Emails Without Google Takeout?

Google Takeout is projected by Google and is used to export data from various Google products and services. It is a free service and everyone can use it if they have a need to migrate their Google data.

So, Google Takeout seems like a wonderful service but why do some people want to download Gmail emails without Google Takeout? The following aspects may give you a hint.

Now you know the reasons why some people don’t like to use Google Takeout. But how to Gmail account data without using Google Takeout? You can find the answers in the next sections.

 Three Workarounds: How to Export Gmail Emails Without Using Google Takeout

There are 3 methods to download Gmail emails without Google Takeout - using MultCloud Email Download, Email Migration, and Gmail Print. All of these ways will not require you to download any app and can export emails as PDF files.

1. Export Gmail Emails to a Local Position by Email Download [All at Once]

The first solution is using MultCloud as an alternative to Google Takeout. MultCloud is a multiple-cloud management service that offers functions like Email Download and Email Migration. Whether you want to export all emails from Gmail to a hard drive or a cloud drive, you can use MultCloud to save emails as PDFs easily.

★ Unlike Gmail Print which can only export a single email per session, MultCloud solutions support exporting up to 200 emails at once.

Step 1: Enter MultCloud and create a MultCloud account.

Step 2: Click "Add Email" in the left sidebar and choose the Gmail icon. Here you need to log in to your Gmail account and grant MultCloud access permissions to your emails.

Step 3: Open Gmail and tick the emails that you want to download. Then click "Download" in the upper bar, or right-click the emails and choose "Download".

Step 4: Name the package of the downloading emails, and choose to save attachments or not and how you want the messages to display in the PDF files. Finally, click "OK" to download all Gmail emails to your external hard drive or local drive.

2. Save Emails from Gmail to Cloud Drives by Email Migration [All at Once]

If you do not have enough local storage, Email Migration can help you backup emails to cloud drives like Dropbox, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Wasabi, etc. rather than only to Google Drive. Also, you can migrate up to 200 emails to a cloud at once.

Step 1: Add a cloud drive to MultCloud by clicking "Add Cloud" and the cloud logo.

Step 2: Click "Email Migration" and choose Gmail and the cloud in the boxes. You can choose an individual email, a folder, or the entire Gmail as the migration source.

Step 3: Open "Options" to check the migration settings and click "Migrate Now" and the selected emails will be quickly transferred to Google Drive.

3. Download Gmail Emails via Gmail Print [One Email at One Time]

Except for the MultCloud solutions, you can export Gmail emails without using Google Takeout by Gmail Print. However, this method is less recommended because it only allows you to download one email at once. If you want to download all the Gmail emails, you have to repeat the operations for times.

Step 1: Enter Gmail and log in to your Google account.

Step 2: Open an email and click the print icon in the upper-right corner. Or, you can click the 3-dots icon and choose "Print".

Step 3: Choose "Save as PDF" in Destination when a pop-up -window appears and click "Save". Then this Gmail email will be downloaded to a local position.

Conclusion

Now, you have already mastered 3 solutions on how to export Gmail emails without using Google Takeout. All of these solutions are effective, but using MultCloud solutions is better because you can export multiple emails as PDFs at once.

Besides, you can use MultCloud to overcome other cloud-to-cloud tasks. MultCloud has more functions like Cloud Transfer, Cloud Sync, and Cloud Backup. If you want to sync Google Drive with OneDrive, MultCloud can be quite helpful because the steps are streamlined and you can even auto-sync the files.