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Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #19

Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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MBOX, cool! I wonder if you could do this to speed up the full download of your Gmail inbox into Mail.app (etc) rather than letting Mail download each message, one at a time.

It will be interesting to see how many people that have been demanding this for years actually make the leap!

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #19

Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…

Why would Google keep a copy of your mail if your account was deactivated for 6 years? Isn't that asking a bit much considering you were the one that broke the ToS?

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #19

Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

Wait, how many people back up their gmail account?

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #19

Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

I don't know anyone that backs up their gmail account. I'm sure many people here do, but I am fairly certain 99% of users do not.

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #5

Thank you, Google. Glad to hear that the Data Liberation Front is alive and well: http://www.dataliberation.org/ From 2006: "We would never trap user data," he [Schmidt] said. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-we-wou...

I have ambivalent feelings about this. All in all, this is my stuff.

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #19

Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…

Why would Google keep a copy of your mail if your account was deactivated for 6 years? Isn't that asking a bit much considering you were the one that broke the ToS?

My hope that the tool is activated for deactivated accounts is more for people that suffer the same fate today - if they lose all access to their account, that they at least be able to get their data/life back.

At least according to the page I get when I try to log in, they still have the data: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/40695?hl=en&ctx=c...

I don't disagree that Google was within their right to shutdown my account, but it seems silly that something I did at 19 has gone on this long.

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

Wait, how many people back up their gmail account?

raises hand

http://gmvault.org/

How does anyone get upset when something they're not paying for stops working?

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

I don't know anyone that backs up their gmail account. I'm sure many people here do, but I am fairly certain 99% of users do not.

What recourse does someone expect when there is a problem with their free account? It's free! You have no SLA or data guarantees!

Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?

I don't know anyone that backs up their gmail account. I'm sure many people here do, but I am fairly certain 99% of users do not.

If you use a native email client and this client saves every mail on disk, you have a chance to have it backed up with everything else. It's still far to be the generic scenario, I think, but it should raise a bit the number of people having their gmail backed up.
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