[Solved] How to Backup Gmail Emails with Attachments to Local Computer

Nowadays, almost everybody on the internet uses Gmail for mailing purposes. Everyone is a huge fan of Google for several reasons – It’s reliable, fast, offers a good amount of storage over the cloud, and much more. Cloud technology is indeed very amazing but still, it is prone to crashes and hackers. Nothing is saved over the internet in today’s era. This is why we should save our cloud data like Gmail account to our local computer. It is much safer and risk-free. So, to do this we will tell you how to backup Gmail emails with attachments to the local computer. We will be sharing a few quick methods to download and backup email from Gmail to your desired location on the PC or hard drive.

“Recently, I found out that someone breached my Gmail account, Google provides me the notification and I was able to block the hacker and protected my account. It’s not always possible to protect the account. I want to save my all account data to my PC is there any way to backup Gmail emails to PC? If yes, please provide methods to do that. Thanks!!” – Monica Bing

“Hello, All! I am looking for a foolproof method to save my email from my Gmail account to a local computer. Is there any method to do that? Also if possible, please tell me how to backup Gmail account data to PST file format. Good Day :)” – Rose Cena

Above are a few of those queries which we found over the forum related to Gmail account backup. Hope it is now clear to you why users search for a query as do you have done. Read the blog till the end to know about the method to solve your problem

Methods to Backup Gmail emails with Attachments Locally

Using POP3 to save into another Email client

There is multiple free email client like Gmail are available for Windows and Mac users like Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Mac Mail. You can backup your Gmail account data to these email clients also using the POP3 method

Following are the steps to enable POP in Gmail:

Login into your Gmail account

• Go to Gear icon >> Settings >>Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab
• Choose enable POP for Mail
• Click Save Changes.
• Go to destination email client and Add Gmail account there.

Note: Desktop-based email clients are still prone to attack and sometimes crashing software is still a problem.

Backup Gmail email Using Google Takeout

Google also provides a method to save Gmail email to a local computer. It allows a user to backup email from a Gmail account to MBOX file format locally. But, there are some flaws in using Google Takeout. As it is a slow process and also doesn’t allow backup in other formats apart from MBOX. Still, if users like they can use the method as it is freely available.

Steps to perform Backup using Google Takeout

• Go to Google Takeout Site
• Log in your Gmail account in takeout
• Uncheck all the files which are already checked
• Select the file you want to backup
• Click on Create Archive button to start backup
• It will take some time to create an archive, after that click on Download.

Special Note: The amount of time required by Google takeout to create archives is depended upon data size and internet speed.

Backup Gmail Emails with Attachments using Automated Tools

Automated tools are the best option for the backup process. They are fast and reliable for saving data easily and without any trouble. No technical knowledge is required for backing up data. There is multiple software available for storing Gmail data. You can use this Gmail Backup Tool for saving Google account data. It helps the user to download and Backup Emails from Gmail to PST, MSG, EML, MBOX format. So either if you wanna backup to a local computer for accessing or taking it to other email clients, both methods are possible. The tool has a free demo version to help Gmail users backup.

Final Verdict

The backup process of a Gmail account is a simple task if the right method is known. There is numerous method to backup Gmail email with attachments. The top 3 methods for that are explained in this blog. You can try any of the above methods for storing Gmail data to a local computer. All the methods mentioned above are safe to use. So, don’t wait up, pick a method according to your choice and backup email from your Gmail account Today.