Deailing with large inboxes on Gmail
I am backing up from a Gmail account with approx. 30,000 messages. It takes years to process stuff — and there is no indication what Horcrux is doing.... Is it still working? If it is cancelled or if it crashes — will it backup mails twice?
Gmail has an IMAP access policy which may make it impossible to backup a larger mailbox in one go. There should be an option to limit the daily consumption, so it does not interfere with the regular operation with other IMAP-clients.
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SteveinMA commented
I am throwing out Horcrux.
I installed Horcrux on my MacOS Big Sur MacBook 4 days ago to back up a14GB gmail email account. WShile it has filled over 14GB of space on my computer (so likely it's backed everything up), it continues to peg the CPU time, using between 2-4 processors at 100% and still has not indicated that the backup is complete. The Logs are empty. No backup is reported as being complete.
It does not make sense for it to use so much processing time and not give any indication what it is doing.
Good thing they offer a 30-day free trial so I can cancel in frustration without cost. -
r.klamm commented
i do have the same problem of absolute pure transfer rates with my gmail account. How can I fix this?