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How to programmatically create/download Google Takeout archive?
Currently (April 2021), https://takeout.google.com/ has options to either perform a one-time export or to schedule exports every 2 months for a year (6 archives).
The archive can be delivered as a ...
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Two-way sync with Google Photos?
If you use Google Drive, you can connect the two so that everything in Google Photos is also copied to Google Drive. If you use Google Drive sync, then they'll all be on your hard drive.
In Google ...
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How to disable Backblaze's auto-renewal of the service?
It is not possible.
Answer from their customer service:
Auto-billing is a required part of our terms and agreement, so there is no way to auto-cancel. You would need to manually cancel following ...
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Read-only permission to Gmail
Short answer
Instead of IMAP use POP.
Explanation
From the reference
You can read your Gmail messages from a client or device that supports POP, like Microsoft Outlook.
The above means that ...
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How can I back up all emails stored in my Gmail account?
Backup your Gmail account for free, without 3rd party software
preserving labels, chats, threads, attachment and whatnot, in a usable portable format
The canonical way to backup the whole lot of your ...
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How Can I Download A Computer Backup?
If it is a large folder, downloading as a zip from Google will often time out due to Google converting all the Gdoc files and then splitting all your files in that folder into 2GB Zip files. (Have ...
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Managing pictures with Google Backup and Sync, Photos and Drive
There is no right combination of settings.
The Google Photos upload checkbox (in the Backup and Sync preferences) is a blanket toggle: it affects all the selected local backup/sync folders. So if you ...
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How can I backup my data in TripIt?
There appears to be a tool that will download all the data using, using an API key you can generate.
Note, I haven't tested it, but I'll just leave this here for the next person to stumble across: ...
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How to backup and restore Google Docs files?
Is there any way to download Google Docs (or Sheets) files in the original Google Docs format?
Not in the way that this could be generally understood but it's possible to Work on Google Docs, Sheets, ...
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How to delete attachments/images from an email without deleting the email itself (Gmail)?
You can install Unattach. It works on Windows, macOS and Ubuntu. I think a one-time payment of 5$ is required though, but it looks promising!
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How Can I Download A Computer Backup?
I found a two steps solution. Say I want to sync DOWN a folder from another computer that is on: Computers > My Computer A > FolderA.
In the new computer, install Backup & Sync, create a ...
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How Can I Download A Computer Backup?
I had this exact same issue just happen to me today. I had a 500gb folder of music, family memories etc that kept timing out on me when trying to ZIP.
Not sure if you ever found a solution for it ...
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How to import a .mathcha-file into mathtcha.io?
It seems that you have to get Mathcha Notebook to open the file.
The online version doesn't offer the function.
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Google Backup and Sync - Only One Direction
One-way sync is not possible with Google Backup and Sync.
I believe there are other synchronization programs that you can synchronize in only one direction.
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You can set up in 'Backup and Sync' ...
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How can I transfer the contents of hundreds of emails to a single Google Docs/text editor document?
First off: STOP! Ha—don't take it the wrong way, but it has to be asked; why are you eschewing direct use of what you know will be your eventual destination, Google Docs? Docs works basically ...
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Google Backup&Sync and Photos - double quota hit?
They're only counted once. If you choose to upload original files, they will use your drive quota, while "High Quality" (re compressed by Google) photos don't use quota. Both could appear in Drive and ...
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How to backup OneNote files that are in OneDrive
Did you check the "Also backup notebooks stored on Sharepoint"? This option is actually for all notebooks that have an URL as storage location, so notebooks on OneNote as well.
Also to be backed up ...
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Backing up from Google Photos
Like Google Photos, you can Back up photos & videos automatically in Google Drive.
But Google recommend backing up using one app to avoid storing duplicate.
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Download backup of google drive trash folder
You can use the Linux command line utility drive to download all the files in your Google Drive trash, as follows:
Give drive access to your Google Drive:
drive init
Download the files in your ...
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Download backup of google drive trash folder
When I ran into the same situation, I moved my files/folders from Bin into another folder. Moving doesn't require more space whereas copy does. Then download those files/folders. Once I had a copy ...
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How can I backup all of my tweets?
Open your account settings.
Scroll down to Your Tweet archive
Click Request your archive
Wait for an email to arrive
Title: It's Tweet archive time
From: [email protected]
Click the Download now ...
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