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I just started a takeout session on all my google drive, emails data too. I wonder how to use them once I have the backup data?
by tonyplee 10y ago
I just started a takeout session on all my google drive, emails data too.
I wonder how to use them once I have the backup data?
- JonathonW 10y agoExactly what you get from Takeout varies from service to service; for email you get an MBOX-format mailbox file (that you can then import into a desktop email client of your choice).
- dmd 10y agoReally? mbox, not maildir? That must be insanely huge.
- cdubzzz 10y agoI pulled mine recently and it was about 3.5GB with ~115k items (chat messages are included). Also pulled my wife's - 217k items @6GB.
- dmd 10y agoRight. So, maildir format then, not mbox.
- cdubzzz 10y agoIt is actually mbox. I should have provided more detailed numbers - in my Takeout file, for example, there are 91,360 chat messages and only 23,407 email messages .
- dmd 10y agoSo there's 23407 email messages but only one file containing all of them?
- cdubzzz 10y agoYep! All messages are in a single mbox file and it's 3.2GB. cdubz@professor-farnsworth ~/data $ du -h Mail-chris.mbox 3.2G Mail-chris.mbox
- dmd 10y agoWow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
- icebraining 10y agoWhy it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
- dmd 10y ago(1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom) (2) easy to corrupt