Leaving work after a decade

[teenhelp]

Sorry wasn't sure where to post this as none of the Work sub boards seemed to apply.

I am probably leaving my job in the next couple of months after almost 2 decades at the company. I have quite a bit of material that I would like to take with me - my work. So for example PowerPoint templates etc, career development stuff. What is the best way to take this? I am not technically proficient. It is likely to be too much for a memory stick - in the old days people used to burn CDs from files. What do people do now? Sorry for such an ignorant question but I genuinely don't know if there is a better way.

You can use a website called We Transfer to send large files. However, be careful your company are ok with you taking materials - in lots of jobs this would be forbidden, even if it’s your own work. You might want to be discreet!

Just be aware of any policies your company might have about taking data when you leave employment. They may monitor things saved to external devices and could consider all docs to be their property even if you created them.
The hr employee handbook.should state the policy.

An external hard drive would do the job, you can get ones that have as much memory as a desk top computer - just plug it into the computer and drag your files across.

Be careful about your employers IT policies though, they might see anything stored on their servers as their property and not take too kindly to you copying it.

I changed jobs after a decade last June. I transferred files I wanted to keep onto Dropbox. Seems to be working fine so far.

Thanks for this help. Yes I will check policies and will need to be discreet.

With Dropbox you would have to subscribe? Just want to weigh up prices of hard drive versus this. We actually don't have a standalone pc or laptop at home so I will need to buy one. DH and I use our work ones and DC have simple ones each for their school work. So wetransfer will only Work if I get one of these. Thanks for the ideas.

Can you not email it to yourself if you zip the files?

USB sticks are really cheap, so you could just buy a few of those. They fit more than you think!

But I would also be surprised if you were allowed to do much of this. It’s impossible to “be discreet” because downloads are usually monitored and recorded

We have locked down USB ports and blocked access to Dropbox from work internet connections for this very reason. Depending on how data protection savvy your IT dept is you might find the same. However yes you could email or use wetransfer (you don’t need a home pc for this - you just upload the files and your home email address then you are emailed a link to download them which you could then save to google drive )

I managed to get everything I wanted into Dropbox without having to subscribe. It was possible to get a fair amount of stuff in there.