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		dmd on Dec 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar ... I'm wondering how mbox format is going to work for 20+ gigabytes of email. Am I seriously going to be presented with a multi-gigabyte-sized text file?

generalpf on Dec 5, 2013 [–]

I bet they give it to you compressed, which should have a pretty good ratio unless your mail is a bunch of binary attachments!

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