I hope this saves a few of you some time and aggravation. Originally shared by Edgar Brown I carried out my last data export from G+ and with little more than 24hrs to go, here is my experience. In hopes that it will help some of the procrastinators.. 1450 posts more than 6000 comments, first post in February 2012. I was obviously into cameras back then. Forget about Google TakeOut in any format. But particularly in html format. It will save the text of your posts and some information around it, but most of it will be gone with G+, as it contains links to G+ addresses. This is also true for the Json format. I ended up using Google + Exporter (and shelling out the $20 because I have more than 800 posts in my stream). But, although the archives are more complete and the export controls are much more detailed than Google's Takeout, that is still not enough. As many of the media links head back into g+. After trying at the several formats offered, I ended up choosing Wordpress for th...
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