my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through “takeout” and it has an option that says hey let’s split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you’ve already downloaded these files too many times. Like gimme a break. Anyone have any experience with this? Any ways to get around the download failing or to force it to send you smaller chunks? Suchhhh a pain.

I hope to move to a different mail thing at some boint. I know y’all are gonna tell me don’t use gmail dont use gmail lol.

Thanks!

  • 0xtero@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    Local mail client (Thunderbid) -> IMAP/POP -> sync.
    Once done, move to a local folder and delete from Gmail.
    You can just backup the Thunderbird profile, if you want to keep the mails safe

    • toothpicks@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I’ve set up Thunderbird using POP. Does it just download everything automatically when you first login? Thank yiu!