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Yes, after all, you already could access your email via imap and do the backup by yourself.
My mom couldn't. Nor about 95% of the rest of my friends and family. But clicking export and then download? All of them can do that.
Mbox, eh? Can anyone confirm that they've implemented this properly, particularly when it comes to escaping lines in message bodies that start with "From "? Failure to properly escape such lines was an infamous bug with Mail.app's mbox exporter[1]. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20070329131522/http://diveintomar...
Well, they are the largest e-mail service provider in the world. My guess is somebody checked the format for bugs.
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Really? Every email application I've used in the past few years asks for your name / email address / password on the first wizard-page. They automatically detect gmail, hook everything up, and start downloading without any further steps.
Yes, to the point that it is very easy to crash Thunderbird if you blindly hook it into your GMail account.
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...
No, we just use a different definition of "user data" than most privacy and civil rights laws.
Or can I soon expect to be able to download all the data anything from Google+ buttons, YouTube to Doubleclick ads have gathered on me?
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We are rolling this feature out slowly, right now only about 1% of people have access to Takeout's of GMail. But we hope to increase it to 100%, including Google Apps accounts (if your administrator hasn't blocked it) over the next couple weeks.
I'm wondering how mbox format is going to work for 20+ gigabytes of email. Am I seriously going to be presented with a multi-gigabyte-sized text file?
Am I the only one who can't see the Mail backup option? Only the Calendar option is available for me.
Any Mac OS X users here using Horcrux? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/horcrux/id557880555 It's written by a HN guy. I've had it on my wish list for a while, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Can anyone give an opinion on it?
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...
"We would never trap user data" No, we just use a different definition of "user data" than most privacy and civil rights laws. Or can I soon expect to be able to download all the data anything from Google+ buttons, YouTube to Doubleclick ads have gathered on me?
For anyone looking to an alternative method, there is a great open source Python script called Bagoma that incrementally backs up your Gmail account: http://bagoma.sourceforge.net/ . Each email is stored as an individual text file rather than the mbox format. I have backed up my account with it every few days for a couple of years and it works great. It will even restore your account to Gmail if you need to switch ac…
Alternatives: http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ http://offlineimap.org/ http://isync.sourceforge.net/