Questions tagged [google-takeout]
Google Takeout is a service provided to easily download your data from its supported Google products.
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Takeout for "Location History" has only one file "Encrypted Backups.txt" that reads "You have encrypted Timeline backups stored on Google servers"
After migrating to mobile-only Google Maps Timeline I wanted to download its data so I went on my phone through the steps of exporting it via Google Takeout. Unfortunately, this didn't produce the ...
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Installing Google takeout under a different Google account
The site Google Takeout allows you to back up all of your Google data to several takeout files anointing to 2GB each which can be downloaded once ready and backed up to a local pen drive and stored in ...
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Is it possible to see where space is being used in a Google Account?
I've just prepared a Google Takeout for a user's account. I expected they would have 1-10 GB of data, but they have over 500 GB.
I checked their Google Drive which has c. 5 GB of data, so I'm not sure ...
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How to get just sent mail from Google Takeout archive of email?
User found out that Google Takeout mixes Inbox and Sent mail into one .mbox file.
So user exported only sent mail. However, the .mbox contains also replies to some sent mail.
How can user export just ...
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Google Takeout Backup Missing Google Photos Albums
Google Takeout is not showing all of the saved albums from my Google Photos account from the Takeout options menu when selecting Choose specific Photos data for your export.
There is a discrepancy of ...
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Are cross-referenced URIs in google drive documents preserved after Google Takeout?
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Google has a service that allows you to export/backup/migrate your google drive documents and contents to another system. Its called takeout.google.com This service allows for the user to ...
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How to download edit history from Google Docs
I love Google Doc's edit history because I can see when I created files and then modified them later. Is there anyway to download this edit history for a particular document?
Ideally, I'd like to ...
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I deleted all my photos, videos, and albums from Google Photos. Takeout still includes these data
cross-posted at https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/78125050
I deleted all my photos, videos, and albums from Google Photos, then I tried downloading my data with Google Takeout. The archive ...
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Programmatically export employees' data with Google Takeout
I'm working in programming at a company that wants to export all Google data from a former employee during off-boarding.
Right now the process is the super admin goes resets the former employee's ...
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Where and how does YouTube store view progress?
I am looking for the source of data that is used as input to generate the small red progress bar below YouTube video thumbnails like this:
The main reason I'm asking this is because I did a full ...
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Convert all Google Docs/Sheets/Slides to Microsoft Office?
I want to move away from Google, but before that, I would like to backup my documents in my GDrive. I unfortunately have a lot of Google Docs/Slides/Sheets, which won't be usable anymore if I stop ...
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How to Google Takeout my Shared Drives? (in 2020)
I have spent days migrating all our files into shared drives in Google Drive. After doubling the cost of our service to allow shared drives.
Now how do I download all those files as part of Google ...
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Querying client info in Google Activity
In Google's My Activity it's possible to see the device that was used to see in the Details tab, but this metadata isn't searchable. I've downloaded my browsing history from the Takeout service, but ...
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Migrate Google Chats from One Google Account to Another
I have two Google accounts - an old one that I used for a while as a kid, and a new one I opened when I became a working professional and needed a professional-looking personal email address.
It's ...
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Forthcoming Google Hangouts and Google Vault changes, the use of chat clients and searchability of chat history
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My organization is a part of G Suite, and our main domain has the classic Hangouts enabled. We're using it combined with applications such as Trillian, Miranda, Pidgin, Adium and other chat ...
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Is Google+ takeout including photos and videos already in my Google Photos app?
Since Google+ is about to close, I downloaded the takeout files. What called my attention is that the files downloaded are huge, 2GB and 0.6GB. I searched for one or two videos included in the takeout ...
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How to programmatically create/download Google Takeout archive?
I want to automate the process of downloading my Google Takeout data and uploading it somewhere else. The part of handling the file and uploading it is already done (here is my self answer about that)....
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Liberate all data from Google+
Now that the final demise of Google+ is imminent, how can I get all of my data out of there? I know I have stuff in there I didn't post anywhere else.
Will that also get the stuff I posted to various ...
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Why does Google Takeout now offer poorly compressed files?
Every once in a while I use Google Takeout (now called just "Download your Data" or something), to get a copy of all my stuff that Google holds.
Since the last time I did this (about six months ago), ...
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How to download Google Search history?
Google Takeout used to give an option of exporting your all Google search history in .json file, but today when I created an archive of my data, it said at bottom:
Note: Your past searches aren't ...
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Failed - Network error downloading my Google Takeout
I am trying to download my 35GB Google Takeout .tgz file but it keeps failing part way through.
On Chrome I might get about 3 GB progress, then it reports Failed - Network error. I have tried ...
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As an Google App admin, can I track Google Takeout usage?
If my users are using Google Takeout, should I get an email alert with notification that xyz user has used Google Takeout and downloaded their data.
I do not want to restrict, but just monitor, being ...
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Downloading Gmail associated with a label
I just finished a project and would like to download (to my local hard drive) copies of all of my emails in Gmail associated with this project. These emails have already been applied with a common ...
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Takeout breaks my non-ASCII
I have downloaded emails from Gmail via Google Takeout, one label to be exact. Looking closer at the downloaded contents (in MBOX format), it turns out that all non-ASCII characters have been replaced ...
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How to export Google Voice data with EST times (not GMT)?
When using Google Takeout to export Google Voice data, it gets exported as GMT time. How can I export it with EST time?
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How to use Google Takeout for YouTube data in an old YouTube account?
A while back Google prompted me to either change my youtube account so that it uses my Google+ profile, or keep the old account separate. I chose the latter option, and since then each time I load ...
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How do I migrate circles from a Google Apps for Business account to a regular Google Plus account
I have a Google Apps for Business account and a regular Google account. I want to transfer my G+ circles from the Apps account to the regular one.
I have attempted this by logging in to the Apps ...
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Download email messages through Google Takeout
I was having a look at the Google Takeout service, and one thing I noticed is that although my Google account uses Gmail (with my own domain via Google Apps for Business) when I go to takeouts Gmail ...
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Migrate Google+ Stream and other content to another account
With Google Takeout, there's an option to "Transfer your Google+ connections to another account," which means your circles, blocks, and other connections are transferred.
However, your Posts, About ...
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Where is the "download" button on Google Takeout?
I tried to download some of the stuff from Google Takeout, but after creating the archive, I don't see any download button. The following is a screen shot of the browser window.
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