The solution recommended in this case is to rename the account to _back or
_old create a new, and delegate to the user, if you want you could also
migrate a small percentage, it is not the best solution however it is the
workaround offered.

Other solution it is, like Mally said, a 3rd party tool.


Alexandre Jacquet
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Mally Mclane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Derek
>
> I sympathise with you, we are moving to Google as a University (some
> 10,000 users) and we will hit this limit at some point. We can't even, as
> an EDU, buy extra storage and manage it centrally for apps like drive.
>
> Unfortunately though, this forum is for help on Google APIs, it is
> unlikely you will get help here for your problem.
>
> I believe there are 3rd party apps in the Apps Marketplace that can help
> someway to what you want, you may find mileage looking there.
>
> Mally
>  On Oct 17, 2012 12:47 AM, "DerekShaw" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> One of my clients, a lawyer, recently ran into the 25 GB limit on Gmail.
>> To say we were gobsmacked to find out that google doesn't want to keep his
>> business is to understate the case dramatically.
>>
>> He needs his email archive searchable and in one place.  He's quite happy
>> to pay for the storage.  What's not acceptable is the cartoonish
>> "workaround" of turning his existing account into an archive account and
>> carrying on with a new account.  Especially when he has unused space in
>> google drive.
>>
>> He is not interested in the (apparently) current options of "archiving"
>> incoming and outgoing messages.  He wants to put is older message into a
>> (searchable, this is google) archive.  He'd  be happy to move 98% of his
>> mail to google drive and live with a smaller gmail account.
>>
>> this is, sadly, not available to him.
>>
>> And please don't suggest stripping the attachments from the emails and
>> putting them in the gdrive.  We went through that with Eudora, and the most
>> loyal of my clients gave up on that 18 years ago.
>>
>> Local storage/archiving is not an option.  This is truly a cloud user,
>> and we can't make it work.
>>
>> If there is a way available, or there is going to be a way available,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> The alternative is what drove us to google in the first place -- managing
>> his own collaboration server.
>>
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