Capabilities on restoration of threads and dates

[Sherwood Botsford]

For years I have had two gmail accounts, one for my busienss one for my personal.

For years before that I ran it all from my personal.

On top of that, I screwed a setrting and some of my personal email went out with a reply to my business address.

So now I want to untangle this.

I use labels a bunch.  So lets suppose I I have all the old business messages in my personal accout (about 10,000).  They are all labeled "Farm"  

I slurp them down in batches of 100 (most are just text)   

With each download, I follow that up by labeling that batch "slurped"  At the end of my day, I can trash all the ones labeled slurped, wait for gmail to catch up, then empty the trash.  

Now, in another terminal window, I restore to my actual business account.

Will they be in the correct place, or will they have new dates?

Will threaded messages still be threaded?

[Jay Lee]

> Now, in another terminal window, I restore to my actual business account.

Do this BEFORE you delete anything in the old account. That way if it doesn't work you've lost nothing.

> Will they be in the correct place, or will they have new dates?

Yes, GYB restore preserves original dates.

> Will threaded messages still be threaded?

Yes, Gmail will rethread the messages on restore. 

Jay Lee

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[Sherwood Botsford]

Cool.  You are a prince.  I will start tiny trial runs tomorrow after coffee.

Yes.  Old sysadmin here.  NEVER do anything you can't undo.