Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use
by raisedbyninjas on Monday November 02, 2020 @01:20PM
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Without going to the step of moving photos, mail, contacts, etc. off of Google services. Are there automated tools available to periodically export that data?
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use
by pkaye on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:47PM
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You can use the "download your data" feature of Google to download a copy. However you have to manually trigger the export. Also no incremental download so it can be a lot of data being transferred.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
Edit: Looks like Google Takeout lets you schedule the download (ie once every month)
Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use
by efreak on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:31AM
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Unfortunately, you still need to manually download the data each time. There's no way to automate this. There's also no way I know of to directly upload a takeout zip to another service and continue. There's also a (generally long enough, except when you forget) time limit on downloads, as well as a download limit (have a crappy internet connection, and lost access to a file? Start a new takeout, wait for it to be available, and try again)
If takeouts could be configured to download automatically through Google drive, that would be amazing.
Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use
by audience_mem on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:45AM
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> If takeouts could be configured to download automatically through Google drive, that would be amazing.
They can. And Dropbox, and various other cloud providers.