Fresh e-mails have been floating around warning users to
back their Google+ data up by April 2, 2019 before it gets deleted forever.
In October, last year last year as announced by Google the
platform was planned to be shutting the aforementioned platform.
The reasons outlined were lack of usage, discovery of API
bugs, leakage of information and later on discoveries of more bugs.
And as of a few days, Google+ started its email flotation
to warn users to backup data and save it before it’s too late.
Per the mail, the shutting process would not in any way
affect the other Google products including YouTube, Google Photos and Google
Drive.
The
following steps could be followed to go about the Backup:
1.
Go to the Google+ download page.
2.
By putting a check-mark on them select the data
categories you want to save
3.
Click on “Next Step”.
4.
Mention how exactly you’d like to retrieve the archives,
that is, via emails, links or would you want them saved in Dropbox, Google
Drive or One Drive.
5.
You could also decide how large you want those files
to be.
6.
Once done, click “Create Archive” and Google
will start to create an archive for you.
After following all of the above steps you’ll be presented
with an archive with all your material saved in it in the form of HTML files
and images respectively.
Also to be on the safer side, it’s highly advised by Google+
to start this process quickly and get it done by March 31, 2019.
This would only endure that the archive preparation is done
in good time.
