Find and export
your Google Meet data.

1. 1Identify the staff who organized recorded meetings.
2. 2In their Drive accounts, open Google Meet and its meeting folders. Check Legacy Meet Recordings for earlier recordings.
3. 3List the retained video files and total their durations, or measure a representative sample for a clearly labelled estimate.
4. 4For organization-wide discovery, ask the administrator to search Drive and Meet through Google Vault, where licensed.

Report in hours, with recording count, dates and organizers represented. Describe available transcripts, captions, chat logs and attendance files.

Recording files also form part of Drive storage. Note that overlap if both inventory lines are reported.

1. 1Select the relevant meeting folders in Google Drive and download the recordings and accompanying files.
2. 2For an organization-wide collection, use an authorized Vault search and export covering the agreed recordings.
3. 3Alternatively, ask a super administrator about Workspace Data Export and its Drive coverage.
4. 4Preserve meeting-folder names and associated text or attendance files when available.

Current Meet recordings are stored in the organizer's Google Meet folder. Google moved older Meet Recordings folders into Legacy Meet Recordings from July 2026.

Vault and Data Export have different scopes and expiry windows. Download all archive parts and check the result summary.

Recorded meetings can link spoken reasoning with presented slides and working documents.

Retained meeting context can show how a team moves from a discussion to agreed actions.

Select the business meetings and organizers in scope, reviewing participant consent and confidential content.

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