Worried about what happens to your Teachers Pay Teachers purchases? Get my free TPT Backup Toolbox (the Claude skill, the prompt, and a step-by-step guide) here: https://educateandrejuvenate.com/op/free-resource-backup-toolbox/

You may also want to visit this episode on YouTube, since there are a lot of visuals in this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk5en4FYQ6Q

If your purchases are sitting in My Purchases on TPT, you are not guaranteed access to those files forever. After the recent TPT seller changes, a lot of teachers are asking, “What happens to my purchases?” In this video I show you how I backed up almost 1,500 TPT purchases to Google Drive using Claude. It took about 20 minutes to set up. Then I walked away and made dinner.

👉 Grab the free toolbox so you can follow along: https://educateandrejuvenate.com/op/free-resource-backup-toolbox/

In this video, you’ll learn:

• Why backing up your TPT purchases matters right now (and why it has always been smart)
• What TPT’s terms say about whose responsibility it is to back up your files
• What you need before you start: Claude Pro, the Claude Chrome extension, and Google Drive for desktop
• How to point your Chrome downloads straight into a Google Drive folder
• How to upload the skill to Claude and let it click download on every purchase for you
• How to check that everything made it into your Drive, and what won’t download (Google files and gift cards)

You don’t need to be techy for this. If you have under 100 purchases, it may be faster to just click download yourself. If you have hundreds or thousands like I do, this is worth the setup. It took Claude about an hour and a half to do what would have taken me around three hours by hand.

⏱️ Timestamps:

0:00 Your TPT purchases are not guaranteed forever

2:00 Who I am and what this podcast is about

2:30 What changed at TPT this month

5:00 Why I’m not telling you to boycott TPT

5:30 What TPT’s terms say about backing up your purchases

7:00 What you can control

7:30 The free toolbox (Claude skill, prompt, and guide)

8:30 What you need: Claude Pro, Chrome extension, Google Drive for desktop

10:30 How the backup works

12:30 Is it worth it? Under 100 purchases vs. 1,500

13:00 Screen share tutorial begins

13:30 Create your Google Drive folder and change your Chrome download location

15:00 Log in to TPT and upload the skill to Claude

16:30 Claude starts the test batch

18:30 Check your Google Drive

19:00 What won’t download, and how to change your download folder back

20:00 Subscribe and keep supporting your teacher brain

21:00 Winter Reset Conference (free, starting November 16)

🔗 Links & resources mentioned:

• Free TPT Backup Toolbox: https://educateandrejuvenate.com/op/free-resource-backup-toolbox/
• Claude: https://claude.ai (no affiliate link, it’s just the tool I use most)
• Educate & Rejuvenate: https://educateandrejuvenate.com

💬 How many TPT purchases do you have in your account? Have you backed them up yet? Tell me in the comments on YouTube. And if you’d like the full story on what happened at the TPT Town Hall, let me know and I’ll make that video.

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