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Boring time...

Last night, I was up until around 4am, sorting through the last 15 years or so of my GMail, over 3600 emails all mixed together..

I found about 2100 of those emails were spam, reported and deleted of course. Then I spent the time to categorize the remaining valid ~1500 emails into sorted categories, mostly sorted by the site it pertains to.

It took over 4 hours...

Fun fun right? But I got it done!

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[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in exactly the same boat. I'm trying to degoogle-adjacent because I don't have the mental energy to completely transition over, at least immediately

The biggest thing I want to do is make a backup of my photos. There's a lot I've taken over many years and I'd hate to lose access for some reason. Not that I do anything to warrant it, just heard the horror stories of when it does happen

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh, that's one thing I've never done, I've never had Google auto-archive my photos on Drive. All my photos are local on my devices. At least I have a 4TB HDD to backup all my stuff to...