Gmail backup

[dennyproxy]

I am using W-10 and gmail. Got a tip to use
GMail Backup revision 15 (2011-03-07)
Received this error message:
Starting backup of account d...@gmail.com into C:\Users\Denes\Desktop\Gmailbackup
Error: IMAP: SEARCH command error: BAD ['Could not parse command']

Upon closing the program I received this msg:
The logfile 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GmailBackup\gmail-backup-gui.exe.log' could not be opened: (Errno 13) Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\GmailBackup\\gmail-backup.gui.exe.log'

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[DelJo63]

Looks like a bad program to me, notice:

Starting backup of account d...@gmail.com into C:\Users\Denes\Desktop\Gmailbackup
Error: IMAP: SEARCH command error: BAD ['Could not parse command']

Upon closing the program I received this msg:
The logfile .... (Errno 13) Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\GmailBackup\\gmail-backup.gui.exe.log'

Can't parse it's own location, but the error causes access to a normally protected directory

 

[dennyproxy]

Thanks.
In the meantime, after reading up on similar threads, I checked the Download the newest emails only box and that resulted in the download of over 13Gb data, including the oldest emails from 2009 that I saved in Gmail. The format is .eml which is readable by Outlook (also by Chrome but I could not change the default from Outlook to chrome, so Outlook it is, sigh). The download is organized by year and month but I don't know yet if it is searchable by keyword. If not, then this may be largely useless because the purpose is to be able find certain emails relevant to a particular issue, sometimes to a sender or addressee. Nicely, the download keeps attachments with the email so if you find the email of interest you don't have to guess what was attached to it.

 

[DelJo63]

Thunderbird will read .eml files without importing them, but also allow Search by Subject, Origin, Date

 

[dennyproxy]

Thunderbird will read .eml files without importing them, but also allow Search by Subject, Origin, Date

Thank you. I will keep this in mind.