KomoD

Or you can just use Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com

Deselect everything, select "Mail", create export, wait until it's done, and then download the zip.

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baron3dl

First, I really love this idea, and I thank you for getting it into my head.

That said, if no AI is really important, I guess it's worth $29, though I can't tell if you used AI to build it or not from here.

Like, I just one-shot a script that does the same with Claude, after it listed 5 free projects that do the same, including one GUI. The whole thing took less time than writing this comment.

Now, if it were $2.99, I probably would have just paid you.

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nickjj

I'd love to somehow do the opposite of this but I don't think it's possible? It would be deleting attachments from emails without deleting the email thread.

For example I'm always 1-2 GB away from my Google account being full. I've pruned Google Drive to the absolute bare minimum.

I've had my Google account for a really long time. There's tens of thousands of emails since day 1. However, there's many emails that have attachments.

For example my friends or someone might have sent me a bunch of images and there's a very long email thread going on with them. I want to delete the 300 MB of photos without deleting the email thread. I don't think Google has a way to do this. I'd easily be able to free up multiple gigs of space if this were possible.

I've already bit the bullet and deleted the biggest offenders but I have a ton of emails with 1-2 attachments (pdfs, zip files, some images, etc.) that might "only" be 15 MB but I definitely don't want to delete the email since it has a record of something. Not just the attachment but the corresponding email chain.

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t_mahmood

Interesting! I already have a Python script that can download anything from Gmail. Making it a product?! Really have not thought about it! Which is why I am probably broke Ha Ha

artisinal

> 100% local, no cloud, no subscriptions, no AI.

The world needs more of this

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Thaxll

For $30 you should sign your binary so you don't have a UAC popup.

Also is it not doable with Google takeout ( with Gmail )?

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ks2048

“I found photos of my niece I thought were lost forever. Thank you so much!” Emily D.

Be honest, is "Emily D" a real person you got organic feedback from? Small thing that makes the vibed site off-putting.

It says "Storage: 1.3 GB saved", but then says it is Read-only.

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shuirong

I like your idea. While installing the app, I suddenly had an idea for the logo: what do you think about using a tilted old photo of a child as the app icon?

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murats

I like the idea. Google Takeout works, but a focused app that helps you actually find and recover old photos could still be useful.

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tribal808

idk if other tools do it for free, but cool idea, hope that it gains the deserved visibility

TazeTSchnitzel

If I have to look at yet another website with this same fucking AI-generated theme I'm gonna have to kill somebody.

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