Google disabled my husband's account

Re:Google disabled my husband's account by jasonv on Thursday October 15, 2020 @03:13PM (#24792593)

I recently culled a few of my larger gmail accounts.

This is what it took:

* Connect to Outlook and sync locally

* Sort All Mail by sender

* Delete All Mail per senders that aren't important

It took me a day, and I'm glad I did it. Not that painful. Outlook was a champ through the whole process.

Now I can move somewhere else, which I will.

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Re:Google disabled my husband's account by jeroenhd on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:55PM (#24793795)

I'm surprised Outlook held up. In my experience the program starts crapping itself after the first 3-4GiB of emails, and it only gets worse after that. I wouldn't rely on the file remaining intact for long with such a setup...

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Re:Google disabled my husband's account by jasonv on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:20PM (#24794863)

It was Outlook on a Mac.

I remember services available 5+ years ago that would help you with this kind of thing (scanning through email archives by sender), but the ones I remember have all morphed into "tame your inbox" apps, which doesn't solve the same problem.

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