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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

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Post by rathish_g »

rathish_g wrote: post #14

It's really hard to download from takeout.google.com these days. I have 86 gb data on my google account and is trying really hard to export. - the export size is around 176 gb. Mostly photos. - it has the option to move to one drive or box. But 100 gb on Google will be 200 gb on one drive. Images are copied into multiple folders to recreate the albums. Note that google photos automatically create albums for family an…

Before downvoting, just try to use the new interface and try for youself. I have used takeout about 2 years back and it was okay. Ofcourse I had just few gigs at that time.

I have tried to spin off an Amazon EC2 instance to download and copy to an S3 bucket. But it logs out every few minutes disrupting the downloads. It will not allow to down the same file multiple times. If one zip fails, the whole set is useless.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by sahinabi »

ramses0 wrote: post #39
epanchin wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get faster internet. Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi. Set up a VPS and download and manipulate there. Plenty of solutions.

“Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi.” LoL

i think he's just trolling - can't be that stupid.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by ben509 »

rathish_g wrote: post #14

It's really hard to download from takeout.google.com these days. I have 86 gb data on my google account and is trying really hard to export. - the export size is around 176 gb. Mostly photos. - it has the option to move to one drive or box. But 100 gb on Google will be 200 gb on one drive. Images are copied into multiple folders to recreate the albums. Note that google photos automatically create albums for family an…

> We can't download more than 5-8 files at a time.

I understand that big file transfers are hard, but that's the entire point of the service.

There are plenty of file transfer tools that can take a list of URLs, but this forces you to do everything in the browser.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by ir77 »

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 pictures and i would have one picture with the same name that was something like 24KB and another one with 1.2MB, etc.

if it wasn't for the option (which they took away) of syncing photos to your google drive and copying them out that way, i have no idea what i'd have done, i'd have lost about 120GB of photos and videos going back to 2008.

so seriously, do all of you just use the takeout and store it away without actually opening up and trying to use it?

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by lopis »

jakubp wrote: post #7
lopis wrote: post #5

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Exactly. Unfortunately GDPR failed to realize that most data companies hold about us is inferred. Data takeouts usually provide you with all data you willingly provided (uploads, reviews, likes, playlists, etc). But most interesting information is missing. How often did I watch each video? When did I open each e-mail? There's so much data that companies collect about your behaviour that is never given back to us.

GDPR does cover inferred data. Source doesn't matter. Only whether this is data about a specific identifiable person and whether it's covered by the list of protected types of data.

Then the takeouts I've personally taken from Facebook, Spotify and Google were not compliant. They were missing anything interesting and non-obvious.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by ir77 »

rathish_g wrote: post #14

It's really hard to download from takeout.google.com these days. I have 86 gb data on my google account and is trying really hard to export. - the export size is around 176 gb. Mostly photos. - it has the option to move to one drive or box. But 100 gb on Google will be 200 gb on one drive. Images are copied into multiple folders to recreate the albums. Note that google photos automatically create albums for family an…

not sure why you're getting downvoted, i just wrote about the same issue i had about a year ago, it's an absolute mess for photos exporting, i don't think people actually use this service here, or they use it without actually looking what's in there.

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by lorenzhs »

acdha wrote: post #40
lorenzhs wrote: post #31

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This doesn't mirror my experience at all, and I think blaming it on fanboys isn't fair. I used Google Takeout recently, had it set to split into 50GB tar.gz chunks, and it worked perfectly fine. I wasn't logged out once, and downloaded the archive with around 90 MB/s (720 mbps). It was a very smooth data export experience. I'm very much not a Google/Android fanboy and avoid Google's services wherever possible. The OP…

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?

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by fsflover »

lopis wrote: post #45
jakubp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDPR does cover inferred data. Source doesn't matter. Only whether this is data about a specific identifiable person and whether it's covered by the list of protected types of data.

Then the takeouts I've personally taken from Facebook, Spotify and Google were not compliant. They were missing anything interesting and non-obvious.

Yes, and not just in your case: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/#history

Re: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

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Post by ConceptJunkie »

acdha wrote: post #40
lorenzhs wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't mirror my experience at all, and I think blaming it on fanboys isn't fair. I used Google Takeout recently, had it set to split into 50GB tar.gz chunks, and it worked perfectly fine. I wasn't logged out once, and downloaded the archive with around 90 MB/s (720 mbps). It was a very smooth data export experience. I'm very much not a Google/Android fanboy and avoid Google's services wherever possible. The OP…

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.

Yeah, it's been a real hit-or-miss process for me, too. The process is way too manual, and increasing the chunk size from 2GB to 10GB causes a lot more failures of the individual downloads for me.

And I don't particularly want to hear "get a better network connection". My connection works just fine for everything else.

That said, if you're able to download everything, it's reasonably well-organized, although as stated elsewhere, there's a lot of duplication of data.

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