Whether you finally decided to shed sassyhacker957@gmail.com for a more professional handle or you want to swap Google accounts for less embarrassing reasons, Google doesn't have a built-in system for migrating your data to a new account. So we figured it out. A lot of us have a ton of data stored in Google's services, but if you want to migrate to a new Google account, you'll need to do some digging. Here's how to migrate your data from Google's most popular services (Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Blogger, and YouTube) from your current account (hereafter referred to as "Account 1") to your new account (hereafter, "Account 2") while incurring the least amount of data loss. A few of the services (such as Google Reader) adhere to some fairly universal import/export standards that make it easy, whereas other services (such as newer YouTube accounts) may require you to start from scratch to keep full functionality. In these few cases, we'll note what you can do and what you'll lose by using that method instead of starting over. Note: Unfortunately, Google Apps has still not caught up to regular Google Accounts in terms of available services. While some of these (such as Calendar and Documents) will work for migrating to a Google Apps account, other services (such as Reader or Voice) are still not available to Google Apps at this time. I'll note where the service is not available to Apps users, as well as when they need to go through a different process of migrating that particular service. Read more: Lifehacker
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