Export Google Vault Chats to Google Drive File

[Daisy Tirado]

Hello,

I was working on a GAM script to upload our exported Google Chats to Google Drive but can't seem to get it to run.

I am not a coder...

This is what I have, what am I doing wrong?

 # Upload Export to Google Drive   

$gam download export "Chat Export - $username" latest --target-folder ~/Documents/ChatExports

$gam user mye...@abc.com add drivefile localfile "~/Documents/ChatExports/Chat Export - $username.mbox

$gam user mye...@abc.com drivefile localfile parent id "1xG4Sx7FYPFvI2JPhoO7xoC0D_Ca9dIUQ"

fi

[Jay Lee]

Here's what Gemini.google.com recommends:

 * Catch the dynamic filename: Google generates random chunk names for the extracted payload, so hardcoding the .mbox filename won't work. Using a simple shell loop will dynamically grab whatever .mbox files were just extracted.

 * Fix the folder flag: The parameter for the download destination is targetfolder (no dashes), not --target-folder.

 * Combine the upload and folder assignment: There's no need for a separate command to set the parent folder. The file can be uploaded and placed directly into the target directory in one step using the parentid argument.

 * Remove the stray fi: Unless there is an if statement earlier in the script, the fi at the end will throw a syntax error.

Corrected Script

# Download and automatically extract the export

$gam download export "Chat Export - $username" latest targetfolder ~/Documents/ChatExports

# Loop through and upload the extracted .mbox files

for file in ~/Documents/ChatExports/*.mbox; do

  $gam user mye...@abc.com add drivefile localfile "$file" parentid "1xG4Sx7FYPFvI2JPhoO7xoC0D_Ca9dIUQ"

done

If you are running this more than once, you may want to add steps to cleanup or recreate the local export folder.

Jay Lee

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[S. Saengchan]

• Daisy สอบถามวิธีแก้ไขสคริปต์ GAM สำหรับอัปโหลดไฟล์แชท Google Vault ลง Google Drive
• Jay ให้คำแนะนำคำสั่ง GAM ที่ถูกต้องเพื่อแก้ไขข้อผิดพลาดในสคริปต์ของ Daisy

sawitri

ในวันที่ พฤ. 16 ก.ค. 2026 22:43 น. Jay Lee <jay...@gmail.com> เขียนว่า:

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