Takeout is great for a total archive backup, but using it just to extract photos is where the UX breaks down for most people.
replyWhen you export Mail with Takeout, Google dumps your entire history into a huge .mbox file. If you have a 20-year-old account, you're downloading tens of gigabytes of raw text data, headers, and metadata just to get to the images. Once you have that huge file, you still have to figure out a way to extract and decode the image attachments from the raw email text.
Mail Memories just gives you what you want: the photos.
This script will extract all of the attachments from a MBOX file - https://gist.github.com/georgy7/3a80bce2cd8bf2f9985c
replyI think the target market isn’t doing this; heck, I’d normally be like you, but the price is low enough here to “one and done and forget it” here.
replyThank you Claude
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