Moving On: Graduating Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Student Email, Files & Access Closure (Refer to KB0013095 for more details)

Undergraduate Students:

65 days after graduation, your Princeton University student email account will close. With this closure, you will lose access to all files, student email and services that require your Princeton netID and password. This includes, but is not limited to, Princeton Google Drive, Princeton Gmail, file servers, Princeton hosted web sites, and some academic software including Office 365.
As a student, you were covered under the University's license for several software titles. Upon your graduation, you must remove this software and, if you want to continue using it, purchase a license for your own use.
After commencement, claim your Alumni Account and update your contact information with Alumni records, and then copy/ move your email and files, transition eligible software licenses and setup email forwarding (See bottom sections on how to move your email and data.)

Graduate Students:

65 days after receiving your degree, your access to Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365 and web pages will be revoked, but your email account will remain active for 365 days.

Email Forwarding (Refer to KB0013095 for more details)

Undergraduate Students:

The University offers email forwarding from your current Princeton University account for 430 days after last day of your account's transition period. Your email will automatically forward to your @alumni.princeton.edu. After email forwarding ends you will retain your @alumni.princeton.edu address.

Graduate Students:

The University offers email forwarding from your current Princeton University account for 730 days after last day of your account's transition period. Your email will automatically forward to your @alumni.princeton.edu. After email forwarding ends you will retain your @alumni.princeton.edu address.

Use VaultMe to Easily Move Gmail and Files

For each graduating student using Princeton Gmail, Princeton University will subsidize one VaultMe migration for up to $25.00.

VaultMe is a recommended, optional third-party tool that can be used to copy your Princeton student Google account content (email, contacts, calendar and files) to an account of your choice (alumni account, personal account etc.).

Read about VaultMe for Princeton: Google: Easily Move Princeton Gmail and Google Files with VaultMe

Use VaultMe (external link)

How Much Storage are you using?

You can check how much storage you are using by visiting Google Drive Storage. Please note, Alumni Google accounts only come with 22 GB of storage.

Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Storage Backup

When your account closes 65 days after commencement, your Adobe Enterprise License will also be disabled. This will cause any files you have stored in your Adobe Cloud Storage to be deleted and unable to be restored, so you must backup your files if you want to keep them after graduating. There is no way to transfer Adobe Enterprise Storage files directly to an Adobe Personal account. Because Princeton uses Adobe’s Enterprise Storage, you will not be able to use their migration tool to transfer your files out of storage. Users can backup their Adobe Cloud files to any backup solution including an external physical drive, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive etc. Graduating undergrad and grad students can also back up their files to their Princeton Google Drives and have them migrated to their Alumni accounts in the VaultMe process described above. You can migrate your Adobe Cloud Storage files with the following process:

Before beginning, please ensure you have enough space on your computer or an external drive to temporarily store your files before backing them up to cloud storage. On MacOS Ventura, you can go to System Settings > General > About, and the Storage section at the bottom will tell you how many gigabytes you have available. On Windows 10 and 11, open an Explorer window and navigate to the This PC tab and you will see the same information listed for your C: drive.
Compare the number from the previous step to the one shown under Storage on the right side of the screen when you login at https://creativecloud.adobe.com/
Best practice is to install the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application on your computer (Windows or macOS) and sync your files to your computer.
To learn how to sync your files, please review the following Adobe Help article: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/sync-creative-cloud-files.html.
If you have photos in Lightroom, you will have to download them separately by visiting https://lightroom.adobe.com/ . You can select all your photos at once by hitting cmd+a on Mac or ctrl+a on Windows and download them by clicking the download button in the blue bar at the top of the page.
Next, using Finder on macOS or Explorer on Windows, navigate to your desktop or a preferred location on your local computer and create a new folder called “Adobe Asset Backup”.
On the left-hand side of Finder of macOS or Explorer on Windows, you should see a folder named “Creative Cloud Files.” Open this folder.
Select all the files in this folder, right-click and select “Copy”. Navigate to the folder you created in step 5 and right-click to select “Paste”. Depending on the number and size of files you have stored in Adobe Creative Cloud storage this may take some time. Your computer will need to be turned on and connected to the internet the entire time this copy is occurring.

What about migrating my Adobe Portfolio, Spark, or Behance assets, files, sites, and other content?

Unfortunately, there is no way to simply copy/paste the data and elements created in any of these Adobe Cloud tools from one account to another. You’ll need to manually rebuild pages, portfolios, and other content under a new personal account (Adobe ID). You may be able to download some assets as PDFs, but there is no known way to re-import those as new projects.

Manually Move Gmail and Files

If you do not want to use VaultMe, read Google: Manually Move Princeton Gmail and Google Files

Dropbox: Download Files

How to download an entire folder from Dropbox

Zoom: Download Recordings

Archive Zoom Recordings

H:Drive Move Files

H:Drive: Access and Move Files

Microsoft: Export Princeton OneNote, Class Notebook, Teams, and OneDrive to another account

Outlook 365: Move Your Princeton Exchange Mail

Most students are provisioned with Gmail. If you are using Outlook 365, instead of Gmail, read Outlook: Move your Princeton Exchange Mail and Contacts.

Personal Websites

To download your personal website files, refer to Personal Websites: Download cPanel files.

Claim Your Alumni Account (TigerNet)

Within two days of Commencement, your current Princeton University netID will be used to create your alumni TigerNet ID and email. You will be notified by email (to your current Princeton student email account) with your alumni account information (email address and password). Upon receipt you must follow the links provided and claim your Alumni account.

Your current student @princeton.edu email will be automatically forwarded to your @alumni.princeton.edu address when your 65-day account transition period has ended.

For more information about TigerNet, go to tigernet.princeton.edu.

Update Your Alumni Contact Information

Following graduation, update your contact information with Alumni Records via email. Email alumrecs@princeton.edu.