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OK, my archive is being collected as of now. It was so easy, with a direct link to the takeout, with Gmail preselected, and a one click operation - I almost wonder what the catch is :) I suspect it might have been a bit of a battle to push this through the top management. Anyhow, whoever did this - thank you.
really easy but not incremental?
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I am glad they did this, as a user who already left the big G earlier this year. Its wasn't a big priority though because of IMAP and ICS. I already got my data out. If anything, I hope this helps promote the MBOX format for quickly moving mail around vs. error prone IMAP transitions.
It's pretty cool do download an archive though, instead of going through IMAP, for archival purposes that is. I have a lot of email in my GMail, going back to 2005 I think. I'm afraid of accidentally deleting it, plus I also use other email clients, like Thunderbird and I'm always triple-checking settings to ensure it doesn't delete old emails. Having the option of doing a dump from time to time, for storage, is real…
As of now (12/6 - 2:33 CST), it appears GMail archives have been removed?
This metadata is essential for any real data liberation.
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Yes, there is a difference, absolutely. No, the line between the two categories is not clear at all.
Can you give me an example of an ambiguous case? I can't think of any personally.
Or even the connections I have on Google+: is it data belonging to me because I entered it?
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Can you give me an example of an ambiguous case? I can't think of any personally.
Well, the URLs I enter in Chrome for example: is that data belonging to me because I entered it, or is it data about me because they track it? Or even the connections I have on Google+: is it data belonging to me because I entered it?
> Or even the connections I have on Google+: is it data belonging to me because I entered it?
Yes. Google takeout lets you download your G+ circles, if that helps.
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FWIW I needed to do this to back up business emails when I closed down my last shop. At the time, all the open source projects I found didn't manage to correctly download ALL messages. I was finally able to do it by doing an HTML inject, and using JS to load each email iteratively.
Did you try bagoma? When was this?
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If Google simply shut down Gmail, their stockholders would pretty much fire the entire leadership of the company. It would be professional suicide to approve something like that.
I wonder if Page, Brin and Schmidt (the majority stockholders) would fire Larry, Sergei and Eric.