How To Switch To A New Chromebook And Keep Your Data

Click the time at the bottom-right corner of your old Chromebook. Click Settings (the gear icon). Click Sync and Google services. Click Manage what you sync. Choose Sync everything to ensure that all of your data from this Chromebook will be available on your new Chromebook. Alternatively, you can select Customize sync and choose to leave some things out.

Open the Files app on your old Chromebook. Open the Downloads folder in the left panel. Hold down the Ctrl key as you click the name of each file you want to keep. Press Ctrl + C to copy the selected files. Click Google Drive in the left panel. Press Ctrl + V to paste the copied files. Click My Files in the left panel and check to see if there are any other files you need to add to Google Drive. If so, select those files, press Ctrl + C to copy, and then paste them into Google Drive as well.

Click the time at the bottom-right corner of your old Chromebook. Click Settings (the gear icon). Click Advanced. Click Developers. Click Linux. Click Back up and restore. Click Back up. Choose a location to save the backup in My Files. Enter a name for the backup and click Save.

Open the Files app on your new Chromebook. Click Google Drive in the left panel. Hold down the Ctrl key as you click each file you want to download. Right-click the highlighted file(s) and select Download. The downloaded files are now in your new Downloads folder.

If you haven’t already, download the Linux backup from your Google Drive—it’s the file that ends with *. tini. Click the time and select Settings. Go to Advanced > Developers > Linux > Backup and restore. Select Restore, and then Restore again to confirm. Select the Linux backup file and choose Open.