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It 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 messag

• dmd 10y ago
  So there's 23407 email messages but only one file containing all of them?
  • cdubzzz 10y ago
    Yep! 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 ago
      Wow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
      • icebraining 10y ago
        Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
        • dmd 10y ago
          (1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom) (2) easy to corrupt
          • creeble 10y ago
            Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
            • cdubzzz 10y ago
              Interesting - could you point out where to find this? I poked around a bit but didn't come up with anything.