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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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Duplicates in Restored Google Hangouts Messages #322

Closed Phil1216 closed 3 years ago

Phil1216 commented 3 years ago

Hey, I would just like to say that this tool is a real lifesaver for me and it's working well aside from one annoying little snag. I am getting duplicates.

I am using version 1.50 as confirmed by gyb --version

Full steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Export gmail data using google takeout with the "Include all messages" option, which includes Hangouts chats.
  2. Unzip the file to get the mbox.
  3. Restore the mbox file to a different gmail account using these arguments: gyb --email --action restore-mbox --local-folder --label-restored

Expected outcome: I am expecting it to add the messages contained in the mbox file to my other gmail account.

Actual outcome: It keeps giving me the "backing off for 60 seconds" message and taking a long time, but I do see the emails coming into my gmail. However, I noticed that I was getting a lot of messages under the Chats_restored tag, and I realized that I was getting duplicates. I see 6-7 copies of messages. Some of them have timestamps that are less than a minute apart.

My hypothesis is that the command sends a batch of 15 and mistakenly believes that it failed and does it again after waiting for a few seconds, thus producing duplicates. It's a manageable inconvenience, but I thought that I should call attention to this issue.

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