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Have you looked through the takeout outputs though? They are completely worthless to most users. It's funny to me that a bunch of Google devs built the functionality and thought "ya this will do".



What's wrong with the data?

I mainly care about Google Docs and Sheets, they're exported as Word and Excel (and there are other options if you don't like this formats), and the random sample of docs I tried in the output worked fine in Word and Excel.


How are the takeout outputs useless? Mail for example comes as a nice standard mbox


I doubt the devs have much influence over the scope of the data output. The goal there is minimum for legal, compliance, or pr reasons.





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