I was never able to takeout my YT comments. There is no place to report bugs, complain, or ask for help actual human beings working for Google.
Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
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Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently I'm doing something right because mine is empty. "You have no available activity to show at this time." Maybe because I've never had a habit of linking phone apps, web apps, etc to Facebook. I tend to keep different accounts completely isolated. Which is why Google really bugs me, I don't like that my YouTube, Gmail, etc are all the same account.
> Which is why Google really bugs me You could probably try Firefox containers for that.
Multiple Google accounts is against ToS though afaik
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think breaking up is a ZIP limitation (max archive size is 4GB) I'm exporting it regularly (although I certainly don't have 120Gb of photos on it). You can choose an option for regular exports (every two months), and delivery method (e.g. Google Drive). Then I have a script that runs daily, mounts google drive, moves the takeout locally if it's present and removes from google drive (so it doesn't take space). Then…
Hmm, I've seen ZIP files over 4GiB - not from takeout but from others
That'd be ZIP64 -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)#ZIP64
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#94I used this recently to take my music out of Google Play Music and import into iTunes. The downloads were pretty slow, but it worked fine!
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
... what. You're complaining about the one way google users have to reclaim data that is rightfully theirs? You know that if "big brother" wants data, big brother gets backdoors, not polite export requests?
I’m not complaining. I’m marveling at the clever solution to the problem of, “How do we get hundreds of product teams to support our legal obligations without feeling morally conflicted?”
Legal processes take priority over virtually anything else; be assured that every large company has gotten and responded to valid legal process before these download tools were available.
Just look at Google's [transparency report](https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...) which shows requests back to mid/late 2000.
Additionally, the scope of what's provided in response to legal process depends heavily on who and what was requested and so the software is far more complex than "download all the user's data". Investigators often aren't aware of what data these companies store and if it's not specifically requested then it's not provided. Lawyers basically copy and paste their last successful warrant/wiretap/whatever and send it to the judge because that's how the legal system works.
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#96i'm very curious about something -- people here rave about the takeout -- does anyone actually use the thing? i've tried the takeout option about a year ago when i wanted to switch from google photos to apple photos and it was an absolute mess, it exported random zipped folders, all broken up (i think there were 14 of thema ll together), multiple images were duplicates, somehow it managed to corrupt apple format of p…
Use the tgz option for exporting, the zip format has all sorts of limitations and weirdness.
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#97i'm very curious about something -- people here rave about the takeout -- does anyone actually use the thing? i've tried the takeout option about a year ago when i wanted to switch from google photos to apple photos and it was an absolute mess, it exported random zipped folders, all broken up (i think there were 14 of thema ll together), multiple images were duplicates, somehow it managed to corrupt apple format of p…
Gzipped tarballs are an option now with what looks like a 40GB max. $ ls -lh takeout* -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 39G Sep 26 18:29 takeout-20200925T172738Z-001.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 38G Sep 26 19:20 takeout-20200925T172738Z-002.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 35G Sep 26 20:06 takeout-20200925T172738Z-003.tgz
The limit is 50gb on tgz takeouts.
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not complaining. I’m marveling at the clever solution to the problem of, “How do we get hundreds of product teams to support our legal obligations without feeling morally conflicted?”
Legal processes take priority over virtually anything else; be assured that every large company has gotten and responded to valid legal process before these download tools were available. Just look at Google's [transparency report]( https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=... ) which shows requests back to mid/late 2000. Additionally, the scope of what's provided in response to legal process depen…
I don’t disagree with any of that. The Google Takeout interface makes it very easy for the user (or person responding to a search warrant) to pick and choose exactly what data to zip up.
Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
#99i'm very curious about something -- people here rave about the takeout -- does anyone actually use the thing? i've tried the takeout option about a year ago when i wanted to switch from google photos to apple photos and it was an absolute mess, it exported random zipped folders, all broken up (i think there were 14 of thema ll together), multiple images were duplicates, somehow it managed to corrupt apple format of p…
Used it to export all my google plus social stuff (several gb over the years) before they shut it down. It kinda worked okay.