Time elapsed: 25 hours (excluding processing to group emails – see below), but CPU time was 15h.Well, it worked! The import worked flawlessly (except the post-import grouping – see below). Closed my biggest databases in Devonthink just in case, although I don’t think it makes a difference.A new Devonthink database was created on the same volume (disk) to remove the variable of copying across volumes although I think it shouldn’t make a difference.Google Takeout mbox was on a SanDisk SSD connected to my 2018 13" MacBook Pro via USB-C. So it was with apprehension (and curiosity) that I created a new empty database, and imported the Google Takeout mbox. If you have tried opening a large Microsoft Entourage archive (back in the day!) or importing tens of thousands of photos into Lightroom you’ll know what I am talking about. Usually the import process is unrecoverable and you have to start again. Even the more robust ones might face issues when your computer inadvertently goes to sleep, or resources disappear (e.g. My only reservation was the sheer scale of the archive:įrom experience, most software import functions/tools break when faced with large amounts of data to process. Conveniently Devonthink 3 provides a way to import mail in mbox format. Google Takeout creates an mbox-format email archive for downloading. In this particular case I have 10 years’ worth of emails and attachments. Some time ago I used Google Takeout to download and archive materials from one of those businesses. I have been using the Google platform for my businesses since pretty much the beginning of when Google started providing them.
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