Perfect Timing, Google!
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Yesterday, I was complaining to Joe about how I wish Google Docs had a batch export feature. A few hours later, he sent me a link to Google’s Data Liberation Front, a project to help get data out of Google. (The Data Liberation Front claims to want us to want to use Google products, not to corner us into it.)
Today, I found out that Read Write Web published a post yesterday entitled All Your Docs Belong to You: Google Docs Now Exportable. My wish came true!
As of today, several bloggers have reported seeing this new feature, which allows users to grab all their Google Docs and batch export them as a zip file. Files can be exported in a number of formats, including Microsoft Office and Open Office formats.
I tried it and it worked. Hooray for backups!
See also: Data Liberation Front Blog‘s Liberating Google Docs.