Questions tagged [google-takeout]
Google Takeout is a service provided to easily download your data from its supported Google products.
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All my Timeline Data / Location History is missing from Google Takeout
I have completed migrating my Google Maps Timeline data to my mobile device as required by Google.
I then tried to export the Timeline data using Google Takeout but there was nothing in the downloaded ...
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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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