{"id":10982,"date":"2016-04-12T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2016-04-12T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:17:44","slug":"google-takeout-its-nothing-like-chinese-takeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-takeout-its-nothing-like-chinese-takeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Takeout: It’s Nothing Like Chinese Takeout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Takeout: Your Data to Go<\/h1>\n
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\"\"Many of you have Gmail accounts, and because you do, you also have Google Drive, Google Calendar and many other free Google services. And though Google backs up your data seven ways from Sunday, and then backs up the back ups and stores them in several different data centers, you might feel even more comfortable about the safety of your data if you had a copy of it yourself.<\/div>\n

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are probably 50,000 blogs and sites on the Internet showing you how to backup your Gmail. But there\u2019s an easier way, I tells ya!<\/p>\n

I am known as a verbose blusterer, filling page after page with yammering detritus and taking forever to get to the point. I\u2019m sorry, I tells ya! It\u2019s my genes. I have bad genes. I can\u2019t have a gene reversal. If I could, I would.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t have a gene reversal but you can save your Gmail \/ Google data as easy as ticking a few checkboxes (or unticking as the case may be) and pressing a couple of buttons. Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if everything was that simple?<\/p>\n

Now I know you don\u2019t believe me. You think I\u2019m full of hyperbole and other stuff (I can\u2019t say because this is a family-safe site). But Google Takeout makes it easy to backup your Gmail and Google data as easy as ticking or unticking a few boxes and pressing a couple buttons.<\/p>\n

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\nYou notice that can choose from many Google products and services, but most of you will probably be more interested in backing up you Gmail, Google Drive (your documents), Photos, Bookmarks, and Calendar. Of course some of you love to do it all, so you\u2019ll save everything including those bizarre chats with Uncle Henry and his dog, Snips.<\/p>\n

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\nYou will note (above) I unchecked all the the stuff under \u201cSocial\u201d because EB is trying to cut me off from society, and she made me do it \u2013 which might not be a bad idea\u2026<\/p>\n

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\nIf you can click a red button that says \u201cCREATE ARCHIVE\u201d, you can back up your Google and Gmail stuff. See? It\u2019s so easy, even EB can do it! \u00a0Also, above, you\u2019ll note that Google is currently busy preparing my archive (Zip file) and will email me when it\u2019s ready to download. I mean come on folks, how much easier could it be? Is there anything here that seems difficult?<\/p>\n

If you read the light colored text (in the graphic above) \u00a0it says the archive may take a long time to create, like hours or days, depending on how much Google and Gmail stuff you want Google to archive for you. Eventually though, Gmail will send you an email that will contain a link from which you can download your precious archive containing all your Google and Gmail data (or at least that which you selected).\u00a0Your archive comes to you in Zip format and your email is stored in an MBOX file, which is basically a text file which can be read by Notepad, WordPad, other any other text editor. It can also be imported into email programs which support importing from MBOX files.<\/p>\n

Google Takeout: It\u2019s like Chinese takeout only different! If you\u2019ve been fretting over how much stuff you have on Google and Gmail and you\u2019re afraid Google\u2019s going to lose it, or you just want to have a copy you can access offline, or you \u00a0are really desperate for something to do, give Google Takeout a try<\/a><\/strong>. Make sure you’re logged into your Google account and head on over to\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/settings\/takeout<\/a>\u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How about some moo goo gai pan, EB? You’re buying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Takeout: Your Data to Go Many of you have Gmail accounts, and because you do, you also have Google Drive, Google Calendar and many other free Google services. And though Google backs up your data seven ways from Sunday, and then backs up the back ups and stores them in several different data centers, you might feel\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10983,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}