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Will Google automatically link these AN accounts with my old gmail accounts?

OBSERVATIONS:

I grabbed a sizable torrent (3 gig movie), disconnected my main Google Drive account from the Windows client and then connected the AggieNetwork.com Google account for some testing. Yeah...its definitely real. HOWEVER....we are being lied to, it's not unlimited...if this is accurate, its a paltry 10 terabytes. /s



A look at access on the Android app.



This is rad. Because it also means this is going to work.

Google Apps Customers Will Start Getting Google+ Photos In Drive On April 6th, Plus More Details About Functionality

Translation: AggieNetwork has given us five accounts, each featuring 10 terabytes of cloud storage with desktop and mobile apps, the latter of which include automatic photo/video backup and enhancement features.

Gig'em.

Edit: another thing I remember now is that each of the 5 email addresses you make all go to the same inbox but a separate sub-folder... Likely meaning that you have one 10 terabyte account, not five, but I haven't tested.

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Will Google automatically link these AN accounts with my old gmail accounts?

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No, you have to link your accounts manually in Google and it looks like you have to still log in to whichever storage account you want access to. They don't all combine into one.

Also BE AWARE of this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/181692?hl=enthe policy says that Aggie Network has access to all files and information contained therein (including email). I can't find any information on what exactly AN does with the info - just a heads up if privacy is an issue.

my guess is it was part of the deal when A&M went from whatever email client they were using to google.

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my guess is it was part of the deal when A&M went from whatever email client they were using to google.

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The Association was using Google well before the university was I believe.

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Will Google automatically link these AN accounts with my old gmail accounts?

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No, you have to link your accounts manually in Google and it looks like you have to still log in to whichever storage account you want access to. They don't all combine into one.

Also BE AWARE of this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/181692?hl=enthe policy says that Aggie Network has access to all files and information contained therein (including email). I can't find any information on what exactly AN does with the info - just a heads up if privacy is an issue.

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Agree with wee, you have to link accounts manually.

You don't have to use an existing gmail account or anything like that to get what OP mentions. The requirement here is the ability to have an account with the association website. Any texags poster with ring bling by their handle has what they need to do so, IIRC. I will say that having my UIN perpetually burned into my brain made it faster because I didn't have to go digging up a transcript to find it. It is independent of any Google account you do or don't have.

I'm a little bit worried, though.

They may be up to something. I really would be upset if anyone accused me of being cynical here, but for more than a minute I've had some questions about the association. I don't think they understand that what it looks like is that they have made it trivial for any verified Aggie to establish perpetual electronic cash flows back to A&M. Someone could get the wrong impression of their mission, which is to let red ass Ags know where Miss Rev is going to be at any given wine-soaked Aggie Mom's meeting. It's in our maroon blood.

Not everyone appreciates accurate record-keeping or good ol fashioned decency, though, and they don't understand that when your audience explodes into 4 figures, standard operating procedure is a biweekly phone call to confirm both proof of life and a current billing address. Good bull, I say.

I guess if im going to put my tinfoil hat on, I'd say that the parasitic nature of millennials, even Aggies, requires that they be offered freebies enticing them to register on Aggienetwork.com. This is why the association wisely began distributing scarce goods like digital forum flair, access to a stalker database, and of course free email accounts. Millennials love that ****.

It is nifty that those email accounts have become more useful, and i hope that nothing about the current arrangement, as it seems to be functioning now, ever becomes more restrictive, decreased, or limited in some way not currently in effect.

Seriously though, I love you, all you association folks reading this. Please don't take this away. Or at least let us know if and when you will.

I'm a bit concerned with what wee said about AN admin access to account contents...when I'm not out of pocket it'll be easier for me to review all the ToS/EULA/LW&T details. But, don't let anything stop someone in the know from chiming in! The Association does have an official texags account...

I guess that's one way to take over the world...

one quick thing, im presuming that the privacy worry about the Association's administrative access to the accounts subordinate to it (which would be every google account made by any aggie via the website) is that some bored student worker with too much access could flip a switch to go in and view the contents of any account. There are legit reasons for someone being able to do that but what goes along with that are transparent terms, audit logs with timestamps, and coherent reasons for doing so.

I don't know if any of that exists, they could very well have no formal policy on it. But, there's a defense against it because the AggieNetwork google accounts support POP --> which means you can use a 3rd party email client --> such as one that PGP encrypts emails from end to end --> gibberish to bored student worker.

ive read more than a few comments from people that have privacy concerns about Dropbox explaining that they encrypt their data that goes into it with the same result of the contents being gibberish to the service provider.

soooo theres that. If moderate learning curves dont scare you, I use this open source software suite for PGP encryption needs...GPG4WIN comes with everything you need, including an email client called CLAWS that'll work with Gmail. http://www.gpg4win.org

Hmm, I should get an account

Secret pron stash

10 TB is like Microsofts Office 365. But if they're strict with files, I may stick with OneDrive as my primary storage. Hmm, Google or Microsoft...

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10 TB is like Microsofts Office 365. But if they're strict with files, I may stick with OneDrive as my primary storage. Hmm, Google or Microsoft...

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not strict if IIRC...only real restriction is max file size of 5 terabytes.

Thanks for the info, definitely going to take another look at this today.

woah

thats, like, a lot of storage.

i don't think i'd even have 10 terabytes worth of **** if I accumulated all of my files from my past 3 computers.

What file would ever be 5 terabytes?

So does someone mind walking through how to combine a previous gmail/drive account so that all of my photos and docs can just automatically use this storage...?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/63304

Nice find.

Thank you so much, Mike!

Nice info. I have used the email account in the past and will have to try out the storage as well.