Crunching the Cloud

18 Mar 2013

The news that Google Reader is to shut down is disappointing. Anyway, it made me think: “what if Google closed down GMail?”. There’s no indication that they plan to, but I don’t like the idea that it might go away one day.

So I checked out a few solutions and have downloaded my email using Gmvault. It’s a script that, once you authenticate it with your Google account, merrily churns away, saving your emails into files organised by month.

Since June 2007 over 64,000 emails have been through my inbox; the attached chart plots the general rise in volume over that time period.

Tags: data, code, personal, cloud, email

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