Moving Gmail attachments to Drive

[Sean Taylor]

Hi, everyone! I have an old email account which was used as file storage via attachments. I'm looking to transfer those files to Drive using the download attachment command. Is it possible to pass a Drive file location as the target folder?

Thanks!

Sean

[Jay Lee]

I don't recommend doing this:

1. it does not save storage space. Storage space is now pooled between services like Gmail and Drive
2. It's far too easy to lose the link between Gmail and Drive (e.g. Drive file gets deleted, email remains.
3. You can't "delete" a Gmail attachment, you have to delete the entire email and then create a new email sans attachment. This means a new message must be generated and saved to the mailbox via Gmail API which can interfere with indexing and threading.

All said, you're best off just leaving the attachments where they are or, as needed saving a copy to Drive.

Jay Lee

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[Ross Scroggs]

If you want to download, see: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Gmail-Messages-Threads#download-attachments

By default, message attachments are downloaded to the directory specified in gam.cfg/drive_dir.

• targetfolder <FilePath> - Specify an alternate location for the downloaded attachments

The strings #email#, #user# and #username# will be replaced by the the user's full emailaddress or just the name portion in targetfolder <FilePath>.

Ross

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