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View submission: Google Takeout Archives - Downloading ALL the zip files at once?
I don't know of a good way to start all the downloads at once. However if you select either tgz or tbz as the archive format instead of zip the archives will be chunked into much bigger chunks (~50GB) so there will be a lot less to download.
Another possible alternative (depending on how much Drive quota you have) is to select the "Add to drive" option instead of the "send download link via email" option, then you can use the drive sync client to sync everything down in the background.
(As a side note the reason the zips are chunked into 2GB parts is because on old zip clients they can't handle more than that and so for compatibility reasons the zip are limited at 2GB)
Comment by CaptainBroccoli at 02/12/2015 at 18:22 UTC
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Wow, this is truly an INCREDIBLE answer. Thank you! The 50GB chunks will work great!
Comment by Air-Op at 10/01/2023 at 22:11 UTC
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ALso, some FILE SYSTEMS can only handle 2GB files. I think FAT, maybe some others depending on sector size.