Delete all files from an account: Email, drive, photos

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Junio Custodio da Silva

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Jul 26, 2022, 10:53:23 AM7/26/22
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Good morning!

I wonder if it is possible to delete all files from an account. Ex: Clear email, photos and drive.
The goal would be to clear all suspended accounts.

Thanks!

Iain Macleod

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Jul 27, 2022, 4:41:43 PM7/27/22
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At that point why not just delete the suspended accounts? Surly if you have deleted all the data there is no reason to hold onto the account? 

Junio Custodio da Silva

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Jul 27, 2022, 5:06:27 PM7/27/22
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Hi

These are accounts of graduating students

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Iain Macleod

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Jul 27, 2022, 5:29:58 PM7/27/22
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I am assuming you have GAMADV-XTD3, if not you can upgrade see here: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/How-to-Upgrade-from-Standard-GAM

For mail:

You might be able to get away with just a delete command like this, but I haven't tested.
     gam user [UserEmail] delete messages doit

IF that does not work, go with gathering the emails for the user in a CSV then using that to delete them all

First print all the messages a user has to a csv file.
     gam redirect csv ./messages.csv user [UserEmail] print messages

Then delete all those messages from their inbox.
     gam multiprocess csv ./messages.csv gam user [UserEmail] delete messages query "~id" doit

For Drive: 
See Method 2 on this page 

For Photos, you are out of luck, there is no API for Google Photos that can help as far as I know. IF anyone has any ideas please share. 

Ross Scroggs

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Jul 27, 2022, 5:38:49 PM7/27/22
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Comments on Iain's suggestion:
This won't work
     gam user [UserEmail] delete messages doit

IF that does not work, go with gathering the emails for the user in a CSV then using that to delete them all

First print all the messages a user has to a csv file.
     gam redirect csv ./messages.csv user [UserEmail] print messages

Delete the messages directly by id:
Then delete all those messages from their inbox.
     gam multiprocess csv ./messages.csv gam user [UserEmail] delete messages ids "~id"

Ross

Iain Macleod

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Jul 27, 2022, 5:40:02 PM7/27/22
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Correction on the Mail deleting from CSV I missed a bit, see it here in bold

  gam multiprocess csv ./messages.csv gam user [UserEmail] delete messages query "rfc822msgid:~Message-ID" doit

Iain Macleod

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Jul 27, 2022, 5:49:15 PM7/27/22
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Looks like Ross got to it before me, please disregard my last email. 
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