Survey: What plans if any do you have for using Google+ Data Takeout?
We're looking to get a sense of what uses people have in mind for their Google Data Takout from G+.
This is a free-form response survey. Describe your intended use. If you don't intend to save any data, you can state that, and why, but please no digressions as to why others should/shouldn't. We're interested in your views, not what you think other people should do.
Please limit comments to survey responses. I've set up a separate discussion thread for any other responses here:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/QoTowcVZh1w
Examples of uses might be:
"I want to have a searchable local archive."
"I want to re-post photos to a new site X."
"I want to select content to be posted to my new/existing blog site."
"We are moving our community to site X and want to include old metatada / content / user lists."
... or any other intents you have.
Please indicate what data you're most interested in: text, posts, comments, contacts, images, video, etc.
You might also mention concerns you have about accomplishing your desired goal. E.g., tools, data storage, selection, conversion, etc.
Thanks, all.
We're looking to get a sense of what uses people have in mind for their Google Data Takout from G+.
This is a free-form response survey. Describe your intended use. If you don't intend to save any data, you can state that, and why, but please no digressions as to why others should/shouldn't. We're interested in your views, not what you think other people should do.
Please limit comments to survey responses. I've set up a separate discussion thread for any other responses here:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/QoTowcVZh1w
Examples of uses might be:
"I want to have a searchable local archive."
"I want to re-post photos to a new site X."
"I want to select content to be posted to my new/existing blog site."
"We are moving our community to site X and want to include old metatada / content / user lists."
... or any other intents you have.
Please indicate what data you're most interested in: text, posts, comments, contacts, images, video, etc.
You might also mention concerns you have about accomplishing your desired goal. E.g., tools, data storage, selection, conversion, etc.
Thanks, all.
Triage. First I am making sure I have New Home details (RSS in Feedly) for a chosen few. Second deleting down to what I want to keep. (I find post by ** which I presume are deleted accounts, which live on in my feed since I reshared the now 'plagiarised' anonymous content. Ick!!)
ReplyDeleteI am wary of Takeout giving me a huge file, difficult to access for my techie skills, and needing storage somewhere.
I may go with a low tech copypasta of what little I need / want.
Rats - formatting - should be four stars
ReplyDeleteI'm not likely to bother. Most of what I post is intended as transitory: I use this place more as a place to connect with other people and don't need to save those conversations.
ReplyDeleteIf I could find somewhere to re-establish my collections, there's two I wouldn't mind saving - but I don't see it as worthwhile unless I have somewhere to put them, which I currently don't feel I do
No plans. Everything important is created on my computer before I posted. G+ is the copy, not the original.
ReplyDeleteSearchable archive. I'm not a geek in JSON or much of anything; but there's a bunch of history of my younger daughter's progressively worsening autism and its impact on my life. I already did an extract, but am looking at doing a transfer to one of the free services.
ReplyDelete"I want to select content to be posted to my new/existing blog site."
ReplyDeleteI'm going to attempt to move as much as I can to my wordpress site at some point in the future.
Ich würde gerne aus allen meinen bisherigen Beiträgen...
ReplyDeleteEinige [bisher unbestimmter Anzahl] auswählen...
Diese ausgewählten dann komplett mit allen Inhalten [allen Kommentaren und allen Plus-Aktivitäten] auf einer externen Festplatte speichern...
Damit ich es dann zum Beispiel in blogspot oder einem anderen Standort wieder sichtbar machen kann.
Zum Beispiel ist es interessant bei geteilten, eigenen Fotos oder Kunstwerken.
Die Kommentare in einem derartigen Beitrag können einerseits für Verbesserung der eigenen Arbeit dienen....
Oder die Kommentare in einem eigenen Beitrag, sind ähnlich, wie in einem Gästebuch zu einem Kunstwerk...
Es kann insgesamt [also auch die Plus Aktivitäten] für spätere Vorhaben, wie Referenz, Ausstellungen oder anderes, sinnvoll sein, diese "Gästebücher" für ein jeweiliges Kunstwerk zu zeigen.
Es ist nur ein kurzer, momentaner Ausschnitt meiner Gedanken zum Thema Transfer und Sicherung meiner G+ Beiträge.
Ebenfalls sollte der Datentransfer unkompliziert sein, zumindest für mich...
Da ich kein Technikfreak bin, also bezüglich Internet Dinge ein ziemlicher Laie und auch keine hochgerüstete Technik besitze!! ;)
Allerbeste Grüße :-)
i want to repost a selection of old G+ posts worth remembering to my blog (for their original date). I’m only interested in the text, I think.
ReplyDelete1) Archive a copy of old posts for my own use. Because it's my outboard memory. And because I do stuff in public, I'll post them in a directory on my blog so Google will index them. If other people stumble across them, then so be it.
ReplyDelete2) Do the same for comments because I Comment a lot more than I Post. that's all in one file but there's always CTRL-F
3) Use Takeout to make sure that old pictures that got onto G+ but not onto Photos don't disappear.
4) Import Circles into Contacts so I don't completely lose track of people I found interesting on G+ but didn't have records of from elsewhere. That may not be terribly useful but at least it's there.
5) Keep a copy of the raw data locally. At some point in the future I may write code to crunch it into a more useable form. Perhaps as a local Mysql database that can then be used to output FOAF or Atom.
Like to select/post Google+ posts and collections with images, comments and + 1s as it is, in my existing blog, telling they are once at Google+ - not all at once, but periodically
ReplyDeleteI'm planning to import the content of my own posts into a blog, probably self-hosted and formatted with jekyll. Or, probably, two blogs, one public with my public posts, and one private for family and friends with private posts. About a quarter of my G+ posts have been private for one reason or another.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that takeout includes my comments on other people's posts, which is a serious omission since a substantial amount of the content I have posted on G+ has been on other people's posts. I would think that for anyone in the EU, that would be a GDPR consideration.
I see little value for me in taking out this data. My posted photographs are the content that I care most about. I just hope that when I close my G+ account they will be evaporated, along with all the other dead words and opinions, into the infinite ether.
ReplyDeleteI want to re-post/migrate photos/Google+ posts (photos/videos and text, comnents) to a new platform or a new blog as they were here on G+ and to keep a copy of the data for further use.
ReplyDeleteWith 7+ years of regular Google+ posting and interacting, I recognize I can't "take out" the whole experience and reassemble it in any meaningful way.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the layout of collections - photos being my main thing, while I have friends who share photos, music, and articles mostly - and valued the feedback. I lost page counters for google analytics, for years could see which photos were more popular than others (publicly and among friends/circles), coded & recoded pages (html) of my own content to link with Google (buttons and stats), etc.
So I joined the crowd at the "buffet table" of Google history, to "take out" all I could. Purpose? 1) To be able to re-display some of the nicely formatted collection displays (as I have web pages and photograph albums apart from Google). 2) to retain memories of pleasant times, conversations, journeys, etc.
In my take-out/doggy bag
I'm not a coder, but been around with html and computer a long time. So I'm a DIY guy.
RESULTS of "take-out". Well, 54 folders, 2GB each. You can imagine the time and space. But after about 10 downloads - the proprietary, recommended format - I opened the first two zipped folders to unpack what I'd "taken out". From a Mac perspective (using Mac + Chrome mostly), what I found was like going into the iPhotos/Photos folders. Not only is there "a whole lot of gunk going on", but there is repetition of files, file trees, etc., without any key (dates, .e.g.) or guide to putting Humpty Dumpty together again. Should I try? I have some screen shots (with dates, natch) from over the years, of favorite layouts (between my photos and others', or stellar debates or a row of reactions to a big event) and maybe that and still having the original images of my own posted photos should be enough.
"You can't go home", it is said (and thanks to evil Google for driving THAT home!)
So I've given up on any reason or utility in my going full-tilt after recreating from that "take-out" warehouse full of disconnected data. Were I younger (just starting a digital life of archiving things for the future) or a tad more OCD (I must save EVERYTHING!) or feeling particular blog posts or forum threads or whatever needed to be given a new home, I'd sure keep trying, but without real skills and purpose I'm imagining this to be a huge exercise in frustration and time-wasting.
That's just me. I have "backup" on other platforms, in my own computer, and in stored data (nothing in "clouds"). The only thing unique and invaluable to me about Google+ is the memories, the people, and the lovely interface which greets me daily.
Like some others, the hundreds/thousands of photos, their display, their being findable via a search, and the cross-references on other pages are a main concern. Not to mention the "years wasted" trusting in Google being a positive aspect of web life. Now things will likely go dead or zombie,
there's no one-stop place for all the aspects important to me (interaction, seeing / sharing photos & music, etc.) this sudden execution is a personal hell for many (again, 'thanks, Google!').
So some with real chops may be able to wade through GB's of data and reconstruct something, somewhere, somehow... Good luck with that. Others like me, with a big concern for our own content (and/or) the way it displayed will in fact find full-sized copies of the original photos in a labeled folder ("pictures" or "images", forgot the name). But it will be in more than one folder, especially if it appears on several pages, say a feed and an album, collection and community.
That's my experience. Except for the very advanced user with a real need to reconstruct something verbatim, I'd be wary about taking the plunge. It's a lot of data, a lot of sifting through folders, and (IMHO) not a whole lot of payoff in the "takeout". Not even a great "solution", as would be keeping everything intact, but archival (online) - or even better, making Google+ as good as it once was, improved.
ReplyDeleteSad. Unnecessary. Good luck all with migrating and having your needs met.
I want a record of all my writing.
ReplyDeleteI want a record of communications with friends.
I want to keep links to people have shared with me.
Is there any provision to Reshare to other platforms, please ?
ReplyDelete(Eg., Google+ to blogger, with option to direct post or to sit at draft)
(May be deleted, if off topic)
Ifinder Ifindi There's a private app someone wrote, I can't vouch for the security of the app at the moment, but it's not hard to find. You can then transfer your content from here to either WordPress or Blogger. (I'm pretty sure it was Blogger...)
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying it's either safe or advocating its use as I'm still in the discovery phase. Use your best judgement.
Thank You very much John Lewis
ReplyDeleteSeems perishing better than wondering; very disappointing, the plight now - let better days come soon
Noted, regards
Reposting my Google Plus posts to Blogger, especially if they'll keep their original date, as if they'd always lived there. I'd filter it down to only what I'd made commentary on; simple reshare don't need to be posted.
ReplyDeleteI have two or three collections that I would like to preserve forever, which I will most likely repost to my Wordpress blog. I only need the text of the posts since I already have the original image files. I'm not sure if I want the comments, but I'd like to have them just in case I do want to keep them.
ReplyDeleteI don't need or want to preserve anything else.
I ranted about my attempt at using Takeout on another thread somewhere. Basically, it's littered with repetitious stuff I don't want with no ability to download only the subset of stuff I do want, and with a slow DSL internet connection it's essentially impossible for me to download my full Takeout archive. I've considered trying the third-party export app that's been frequently promoted, but I don't know if it will do what I want, and I'm reluctant to run an unsigned exe from an unknown party that my anti-virus program tells me is unsafe. I haven't seen a privacy policy. Maybe I'll create a VM for it.
Diana Studer Ifinder Ifindi: Reminder, this is a survey thread. Discussion to the discussion thread (see post).
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Blogger : if we could please customize, sort, add comments...it would be following but with a +
ReplyDeleteNo takeouts. I don't need to keep my old content, it's mostly ephemeral anyway.
ReplyDelete1) I'm hoping to create a static HTML stream of my posts (and other users) that becomes a static archive that I can load locally, or share with key people on a private server. This doesn't currently work because the HTML for posts is broken (bad src tags, missing JPGs etc) in the takeout archives.
ReplyDelete2) I would hope to have something in a format that could be reimported into something else one day. There is no point having a dump of JPGs and CSVs if the data is incomprehensible. I would kind of hope that there might be something soon to replace Google, as their product suite has really lost course and I am reluctant to rely on a company where so many products just get abandoned.