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		albertzeyer on June 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Takeout: Download your data from Picasa, Co... I mean directories. GMails IMAP interface maps each tag to a directory but that is not exactly the same. Esp. when your extracting algorithm doesn't know about this, you end up with a lot of duplicates.

thwarted on June 29, 2011 [–]

So only download the All Mail folder into a single mbox.

albertzeyer on June 29, 2011 | [–]

Then you miss the tagging information.

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