Failed – Network error downloading the Google Takeout

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I am trying to download my 35GB Google Takeout .tgz file but it keeps failing part way through.

  • On Chrome I might get about 3 GB progress, then it reports Failed - Network error. I have tried several times.

partial and failed attempts

  • On Firefox, I manged about 75% of the file downloaded on the one attempt.

My internet is pretty stable and I haven't had problems downloading relatively large ISO images, but I couldn't be sure that my connection would be 100% glitch free for the 3 hours it takes to download.

I'm considering generating a .ZIP takeout instead, but then I have to manually download lots of 2GB zips.

Got any better ideas?

Best Answer

If you are familiar with linux/unix then there is a simpler method using wget/curl.

Steps:

  • Initiate download via takeout page in your browser
  • Go to "Window->Downloads"
  • Locate the download which is in-progress right now
  • Right click + Copy link address
  • From your terminal - wget {url}

wget is more stable. you can manually set timeouts.

Bonus: you can initiate this from a remote server. I have seen speeds upto 250 MBps from remote servers. Just be sure not to cancel the browser download before your wget finishes.

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