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downloading gmails (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by toothpicks@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through "takeout" and it has an option that says hey let's split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you've already downloaded these files too many times. Like gimme a break. Anyone have any experience with this? Any ways to get around the download failing or to force it to send you smaller chunks? Suchhhh a pain.

I hope to move to a different mail thing at some boint. I know y'all are gonna tell me don't use gmail dont use gmail lol.

Thanks!

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[–] saint@group.lt 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One way to do it is with ImapSync: https://imapsync.lamiral.info

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'd use imapsync or mbsync for this.

Just keep in mind that Gmail has a documented 2.5GB per day limit for IMAP downloads. In reality, the limit is smaller. When I was migrating away from GSuite, it took me 8-9 days to download 14GB of email. I downloaded imapsync and ran it on my server.