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Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.
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Label causing import error #316

Closed eakkas closed 3 years ago

eakkas commented 3 years ago

I am importing a large (500K+ messages) mbox to Gmail. The process started fine, imported a few thousand messages and got interrupted with the following message:

Creating label Muted
400: Invalid label name - invalidArgument

When I re-run the command, it exits with the same message. I guess "Muted" causes a conflict. I'd be okay skipping importing the messages with the label "Muted" but I don't think that's an option. I would appreciate the groups input on how I can resolve this issue.

jay0lee commented 3 years ago

Can you try running the restore with the additional argument of:

--extra-reserved-labels muted

this tells GYB to treat Muted as a reserved label it should not try to create. Instead it will be created as _Muted.

eakkas commented 3 years ago

Thanks. I ended up doing --strip-labels. I may redo the whole thing and try your suggestion.

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