Comment by Aeolun

4 years ago

I have tried this many times, and literally the only time it succeeded was when I had it exported to Google Drive.

It feels like they built it to say that you can, but your data is still just as locked as before…

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mceachen  4 years ago

Try fetching only your photos in one archive, your Gmail in a separate archive, and then everything else in a third.

If you have "too many" Google photos and that archive fails, create albums for every year, and only download a year/album at a time. It's a huge PITA, but at least you'll get your stuff back. (Kinda: depending on how you uploaded your photos, the metadata may come back truncated or altered).

radicality  4 years ago

Hmm, which part fails? Works great for me. You can schedule it to happen every 2 months for a year. And so every 2 months I get an email with links to 7 or so 50GB .tgz files. They download very quickly with no throttling and fully saturate my 1Gbs connection.