So I started the Google Takeout process because I want to move my photos from Google Photos to Immich.
Google emailed me saying the archives are ready… uh… I have to download 81 zip files, each 2GB big… 😬
Is there an easy way to download all of these files? Or do I have to click “download” 81 times and hope the downloads don’t get interrupted?
I recently went through the same process. Luckily only 6 zip files, and all but one (the one with my emails) were pretty much empty.
What really pissed me off: because i didnt log in with my current device to google yet, after i let google create the takeout it came to me like “ehh i dont know this phone yet, better wait a week to download”
A week later: “ohh seems like we only store takeouts for a week, guess you gotta do it again :(”
Rinse, repeat, and after 3 weeks, i could finally get the only thing i cared about anyway: my mails
It might be too late for you, but for anyone else who stumbles across this:
The easiest way to transfer emails is just log into a client like Thunderbird, let it download them all, select all, then drag and drop them all to your new provider. If you have a lot of historic emails, filter by year and do one year at a time
I opened my gmail account in 2004…
I have a lot of emails and pics 😂