Open Jerther opened 2 years ago
I also found this thread on your google group. The user reports having problems with Hangouts (Chat) messages, and that could be the problem here also.
The Google APIs generally don't support backup/restore of Google Chat messages and those messages are excluded from the initial backup by default. If you are using a custom --search rule on the backup you should add -is:chat
to exclude Chat messages from your backup also.
If the error is happening on something other than a chat message then I'll need to see specific examples of failing messages in order to repro the issue.
Hmm, not sure I follow you on the initial backup. I used Google Takeout with the default settings. Here, chats appear to be selected by default, unless that means nothing when the top checkbock is checked:
("Clavardage" means "Chat" in french)
Yes, you'd want to exclude Chat from the Takeout. They can't be migrated back into Gmail or Groups in any meaningful form.
I understand thanks.
Would it be possible for GYB to detect such chat messages and skip them with a proper warning? The message it outputs right now is a bit worrisome and confusing...
Also the documentation does not say much about Chat messages, except in the "--action count" section.
Full steps to reproduce the issue:
Expected outcome (what are you trying to do?): All emails are imported, except those that are too big
Actual outcome (what errors or bad behavior do you see instead?): A LOT of "400: Unable to parse the raw message - invalid"
Additional info: There's not much help on this on the net.... All I found was this SO article but that doesn't help a mere user ;)