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by strnisa 4y ago
Please see my answer to this above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32467052 ).
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by strnisa 4y ago
Disclaimer: I’m the author of the web app. The web app needs write permissions to the user’s Gmail account. In such cases, Google requires the author to explain how the permissions are used, submit a video showing this, and ideally to have
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by strnisa 4y ago
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you found my web app useful.
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by strnisa 4y ago
> Nice app. I'm forever running out of Google One storage and didn't realise this was possible. Thanks! If you give it a try, I'd be interested to hear your feedback. > 'Fortunately, I've created a web app cal
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by strnisa 4y ago
Apologies, added a disclaimer now.
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by strnisa 4y ago
The app will soon support the ability to back up the whole original email (in .eml format) before any changes are made, should the originals be needed for whatever reason.
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by strnisa 4y ago
I've just tried doing this with Mutt. It's quite awkward, but (after fidling with the interface) it did create a new email with an empty attachment, i.e. the attachment is still there, but it has zero bytes. Also, the original ema
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by strnisa 4y ago
Yes, you can remove attachments with Thunderbird, but it requires a lot of configuration and it is highly error-prone. Disclaimer: I'm the author of Unattach.
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by strnisa 4y ago
It is a client-side app that runs inside the browser. Or do you mean something else?
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by strnisa 4y ago
Does it work for all types of attachments (e.g. inline) and can be done across many emails at once? Can it add information about what was removed?
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by strnisa 4y ago
Yes, Gmail API does not support this out of the box. However, you can download the raw email, update it locally, upload the modified copy, and then delete the original. This is how the web app (Unattach) described in the blog post does it.
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How to Delete Gmail Attachments Without Deleting the Emails(blog.unattach.app)
137 points by strnisa 4y ago|73 comments
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Show HN: A program that predicts the best Fantasy F1 teams(medium.com)
3 points by strnisa 5y ago|0 comments
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by strnisa 5y ago
I believe that it would be possible to make it into a website, yes. The main reason why I haven't gone this way is because of the trust issue, which most users care about. At the moment, user data flows only between the Google servers
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by strnisa 5y ago
The main benefit of using Unattach over simply deleting the emails is that you can keep all the other parts of your emails in your Gmail server. These are often valuable, don't take much space and can continue to be searched. Unattach
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Show HN: Unattach – free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments
31 points by strnisa 5y ago|7 comments
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by strnisa 6y ago
If you'd like to free some of that 15GB, you can bulk remove some attachments from your Gmail with Unattach. It's free and open-source: http://unattach.app/ Full disclosure: I'm the author of Unattach.
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Show HN: Configurable JavaScript version of the Matrix system failure animation(github.com)
3 points by strnisa 9y ago|0 comments