Chat Watchpoints

Additional Information regarding Chat transition:

• Google Chat conversations DO NOT migrate

• Google Chat Spaces DO NOT migrate, and new Chat spaces will need to be created from your @ucsd.edu Google account

• In order to allow cross-domain Chat spaces, please make sure that when you create the new Chat Space, you "allow people outside your organization to join"

• To make it clearer for everyone on my team, I have been creating the new Space from my @ucsd.edu account, and then going back to the archive @eng account and renaming the old Chat Space to preface the name with RETIRED -. Then, I send a message in the RETIRED - Chat space that says "RETIRING THIS SPACE - PLEASE USE THE UCSD SPACE" (see example 1 below)

• If you utilize Google Chat quite a bit - then you may want to go into your archive @eng account and set a custom Chat status to redirect people to your new Chat address (mine says "new account: rhassett@ucsd.edu") and then set your status to Away or Do Not Disturb (see example 2 below). You also may want to ensure that your Chat Notifications are set to send you an email if you haven't read a message (see example 3 below).

• IF you installed the Google Chat Desktop app, this is a Chrome Profile add-on specific to the Google account using that Chrome Profile.

  1. 1. • To keep using the Chat Desktop app, please go to https://chat.google.com from your NEW @ucsd.edu Chrome Profile and install the app again

        • PLEASE DO NOT try to switch accounts from within the Chat app on your old Chrome Profile - this will cause confusion, not only to Google trying to determine what account is currently in use, but with which Profile you should use for either account

NOTE: You can export your Chat conversations using Google Takeout, however this exports to a .json file, and Google does not provide a way to import that file into your new account. The export is not user-friendly, so depending on your skill at processing text files at the command line, your ability to get valuable information from the Takeout may be limited. 

I will say that Chat is meant to be ephemeral - but if there is information in a Chat conversation that you need to keep, you may want to go into your archive @eng account, open that Chat, and either screenshot the info, copy and paste somewhere else, or Google does provide a "Forward to Inbox" function, that will email a specific portion of the chat to you for your record-keeping.