I work for a company where unless you are a manager, you cannot send or receive outside files via email. You can use the company Google Drive but not access your personal one. Basically they take file security quite seriously and probably have state-of-the-art tech. I had a friend who left and copied over their files to a USB before shipping their PC back to the company, but when they went to look at their files, realized that the files were encrypted. They could still use the links they saved but not open any files that were pictures or a document like the resume they wrote with all their work achievements on it, etc. So they were out of luck there.

I have some personal files (nothing confidential or owned by the company, truly) I would like to keep if I ever left the company, and enough of them that it would be too inconvenient to ask my manager to email to me, and too time-consuming to re-type on my personal PC.

Presumably even if I were able to access a google drive, one drive, or dropbox type service and copy my files to it, they would become inaccessible on another PC due to hard drive encryption, correct? So I would need to find a website that I could access on my work PC that would allow me to copy the text of a file to it and save that unencrypted text to that I could then access from my personal PC, correct?

And any pictures I've downloaded, like team pics that our manager posted that I saved, I would have to ask my manager to email to me or abandon because the picture file itself would be encrypted, correct?

Anyone know of any workarounds for this type of situation? Specifically getting files off a work PC while you still having access to that PC?