I’ve also used it and the original poster’s experience rang truer than yours. Most people do not have gigabit internet connections and manually downloading the default smaller chunks is annoying.
But can't you just download larger chunks over whatever connection you have? Or is it common for internet connects in (I assume) the US to be so bad that you can't download a 20GB or 50GB file without errors?
It’s really a question of how well it resumes: if you’re trickling in a 20GB file and get a couple lost packets at 10GB, was that earlier transfer wasted? Most people use wireless so it’s not hard to have a transient failure which will disrupt a TCP connection but won’t last that long in absolute terms.
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…
"Then indeed, inside you have mess with some data in HTML, some in JSON, etc. But well, at least you can parse it..." how is some regular schmuck that wants to move his data out of google to another service supposed to determine what they actually have to parse? the user simply uploads pictures into the system but gets garbage out? the scarry part here is that google makes it extermely easy to suck in the data but fo…
They seem to use standardized formats where possible: vcard for contacts, mbox for email, image files for photos, etc. I'll grant you that they do some not-nice things (like separating photo metadata into json files), but I'm curious what format for search or timeline activity would be useful for a "regular schmuck"?
If said person wants to view the data on their own time, HTML seems adequate. And JSON seems ideal if they plan on sending this data to a new service that ostensibly supports parsing Google's takeout.
HomeAdvisor's CEO is Brandon William Ridenour and his home address is 211 S Cherry St, Denver, CO 80246 and his phone number is (732) 259-8929. Brandon Ridenour's wife's name is Debora Silva Ridenour and her email address is deb_silva007@yahoo.com. Brandon Ridenour and Deb Ridenour also own 730 N Magnolia St, Denver, CO 80220. Their children go to Graland Country Day School located at 55 Clermon St, Denver, CO 80220. The Chairman of IAC and HomeAdvisor is Barry Diller and his home address is 1940 Coldwater Canyon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. All that information was kindly provided by their colleagues. HomeAdvisor are the biggest scammers in US history and need to be shut down. HomeAdvisor are spamming the internet and search engines with hundreds of fake websites to manipulate consumers and manipulate search engine results. Some examples of HomeAdvisor's hundreds of fake websites are home-siding-contractors.com, 1800contractor.com, handymanservice.com, jensonbrothers.com, starsproservices.com, and powellandsons.com. The construction industry and local economies are being ruined by these bombardment of scams, lies, and deceit from HomeAdvisor and it will only get much worse if nothing is done to stop them. Sometimes as much as over three-fourths of the 1st page search results are all HomeAdvisor and HomeAdvisor's fake websites, which makes it extremely unfair for construction businesses and independent contractors. Often all 3 ads on the 1st page search results are homeadvisor.com, jensonbrothers.com, and powellandsons.com, all 3 of which are websites controlled by HomeAdvisor and is blatant gross anticompetitive manipulation. HomeAdvisor are also writing thousands of fake reviews of their competitors and of themselves. HomeAdvisor are also writing thousands of fake positive reviews of themselves on ConsumerAffairs, Google, the App Store, and Google Play. HomeAdvisor is the worst rated company on the BBB in history with over 2,000 bad reviews from the last 3 years and a horrible average 1 star out of 5 stars rating as of the beginning of the year 2020, but starting the summer of 2020 HomeAdvisor has also begun to write hundreds of fake positive reviews of themselves on the BBB and on ResellerRatings to cheat and alter their ratings. HomeAdvisor is by far the most unethical, unfair, dishonest, and malicious corporation in America. HomeAdvisor uses every scam and dirty trick they can think of. Brandon Ridenour, Deb Ridenour, and the rest of the people behind HomeAdvisor need to be at the very least sentenced to life in prison. Angry contractors, let HomeAdvisor's CEO know that HomeAdvisor will not be tolerated.
Another fun one. Go into Facebook and download your data and look in the ads folder. There's a very helpful "advertisers_who_uploaded_a_contact_list_with_your_information.html" page that lists every advertiser who somehow obtained your contact data and ran targeted ads to you. There's a lot of sketchy companies out there who I never had any kind of relationship with who somehow managed to obtain email or other contac…
See also: https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/ .
HomeAdvisor's CEO is Brandon William Ridenour and his home address is 211 S Cherry St, Denver, CO 80246 and his phone number is (732) 259-8929. Brandon Ridenour's wife's name is Debora Silva Ridenour and her email address is deb_silva007@yahoo.com. Brandon Ridenour and Deb Ridenour also own 730 N Magnolia St, Denver, CO 80220. Their children go to Graland Country Day School located at 55 Clermon St, Denver, CO 80220. The Chairman of IAC and HomeAdvisor is Barry Diller and his home address is 1940 Coldwater Canyon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. All that information was kindly provided by their colleagues. HomeAdvisor are the biggest scammers in US history and need to be shut down. HomeAdvisor are spamming the internet and search engines with hundreds of fake websites to manipulate consumers and manipulate search engine results. Some examples of HomeAdvisor's hundreds of fake websites are home-siding-contractors.com, 1800contractor.com, handymanservice.com, jensonbrothers.com, starsproservices.com, and powellandsons.com. The construction industry and local economies are being ruined by these bombardment of scams, lies, and deceit from HomeAdvisor and it will only get much worse if nothing is done to stop them. Sometimes as much as over three-fourths of the 1st page search results are all HomeAdvisor and HomeAdvisor's fake websites, which makes it extremely unfair for construction businesses and independent contractors. Often all 3 ads on the 1st page search results are homeadvisor.com, jensonbrothers.com, and powellandsons.com, all 3 of which are websites controlled by HomeAdvisor and is blatant gross anticompetitive manipulation. HomeAdvisor are also writing thousands of fake reviews of their competitors and of themselves. HomeAdvisor are also writing thousands of fake positive reviews of themselves on ConsumerAffairs, Google, the App Store, and Google Play. HomeAdvisor is the worst rated company on the BBB in history with over 2,000 bad reviews from the last 3 years and a horrible average 1 star out of 5 stars rating as of the beginning of the year 2020, but starting the summer of 2020 HomeAdvisor has also begun to write hundreds of fake positive reviews of themselves on the BBB and on ResellerRatings to cheat and alter their ratings. HomeAdvisor is by far the most unethical, unfair, dishonest, and malicious corporation in America. HomeAdvisor uses every scam and dirty trick they can think of. Brandon Ridenour, Deb Ridenour, and the rest of the people behind HomeAdvisor need to be at the very least sentenced to life in prison. Angry contractors, let HomeAdvisor's CEO know that HomeAdvisor will not be tolerated.
Another fun one. Go into Facebook and download your data and look in the ads folder. There's a very helpful "advertisers_who_uploaded_a_contact_list_with_your_information.html" page that lists every advertiser who somehow obtained your contact data and ran targeted ads to you. There's a lot of sketchy companies out there who I never had any kind of relationship with who somehow managed to obtain email or other contac…
The facebook dump also includes email addresses and phone numbers that you have deleted from your account. After I removed my contact information from my account, I was curious why advertisers were still able to target my account with these uploaded lists, so I guess that explains it.
Well that clearly sounds like it's not GDPR compliant, but Facebook might have a different policy for the EU.
Facebook is currently involved in multiple legal battles in Europe about the GDPR, including at least one where it's the instigator. Facebook has different views about what's allowed under the GDPR compared to the people in charge of enforcing the GDPR.
I've used Takeout. Nice for them to provide a bundle. That said, I'd love the option to export my Messages content, and that's something I haven't seen anywhere. Has anyone successfully done this for Google Messages? I don't mean backing up to Google Drive, I mean a full-on export.
Another fun one. Go into Facebook and download your data and look in the ads folder. There's a very helpful "advertisers_who_uploaded_a_contact_list_with_your_information.html" page that lists every advertiser who somehow obtained your contact data and ran targeted ads to you. There's a lot of sketchy companies out there who I never had any kind of relationship with who somehow managed to obtain email or other contac…
You can also find this without having to wait on the export: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/?section=audience_bas... You can browse all the various data here: https://www.facebook.com/your_information/ This is the download page: https://www.facebook.com/dyi/
That first link isn't the same thing as what GP is saying, at all. That's just a list of advertisers for whom you have been caught in their advertising dragnet (eg you're in one of their targeted demographics).
i'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…
I just finished found through the takeout process for photos last night. 39 2GB archives. Request took a couple of days to process, then I got an email with a bunch of links that they said were good for 7 days. I planned to load them into my Synology download manager, but the takeout system seems to rely heavily on browser state, so Synology couldn't download them. Each took 5 minutes to download at home over WiFi, a…
i think he's just trolling - can't be that stupid.
GoogleGuest is an unsecured SSID at every campus, if you have one nearby. It generally reaches the parking lots (which are conveniently empty right now)
https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/ ... not as isolated as I thought, waiting patiently for the geo-data people to work out an approximate census of people who live within a 50-mile radius of a google office. :-)