How to compress Google Takeout MBOX file?

In this blog, we will discuss an automated method for compressing a Google Takeout MBOX file. You can use the easy and reliable method that will solve your problem on how to compress Google Takeout MBOX file.

Overview

We know that Google Takeout is a service that allows users to download their data into MBOX format. But the problem arises when the size of the Google Takeout MBOX file is large and the user wants to compress the MBOX file.

There are many methods available, but users don’t know the right method. In this blog, we have explained an automated method that will compress a Google Takeout MBOX file.

Why do users need to compress Google Takeout MBOX files?

• As we all know, when Google Takeout exports all data from a user’s account in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 10 GB and 50 GB in a MBOX file.  It is a huge size of MBOX, and email clients like Thunderbird don’t support these file-size MBOX files.
• If you upload a large-sized MBOX file in Thunderbird or any other email client, it will make it slow, and an error will occur. Thunderbird recommends its users to use up to 4GB of the MBOX file.
• Other email clients also become slow and experience performance issues when large-sized MBOX files are uploaded to them.

Also Read: How to Convert MBOX to EML Files?

Automated method to compress Google Takeout MBOX file

With eSoftTools MBOX compress software you can easily compress a large-sized MBOX file into a smaller one. This tool easily removes unwanted email attachments from the MBOX file and compresses the MBOX file with various smart options. Moreover, this tool compresses all types of MBOX files in a few simple steps.

Key features 

• Compresses and reduces the size of MBOX files in bulk.
• Compresses MBOX files and folders with four different options-
  • Remove attachments from MBOX: Shifts emails from the old MBOX file to the new file without attachments.
  • Remove attachments from MBOX and Save attachment Seperate folder: Relocate emails from the old MBOX file to the new MBOX file without attachments and save attachments in a new folder.
  • Compress attachments and Save MBOX file: Compresses all the attachments in the MBOX file and saves it in a zip file, and places it inside the MBOX file.
  • Remove attachment from MBOX and Save + Compress Attachment: Compresses all the attachments in the MBOX file and saves it in a zip file, and places it as a separate file.
• Preview all MBOX files and folders in the preview panel before compression.
• Have options to filter attachments by giving a predefined file extension or by a custom file extension.
• Can filter emails according to date by giving Date Range ( From and To)
• Compatible with all editions of the Windows operating system up to Windows 11.
  
  
  
  

Steps to compress Google Takeout MBOX file

• Download and launch eSoftTools MBOX compress software on your PC.
• Click the Add file/folder button on the menu bar and select any one of the MBOX file & folder adding options.

• Preview all the MBOX files & folders in the preview panel inside the software and select the files & folders to be compressed.

• Click the Compress MBOX button on the menu bar, and new conversion window will open.
• Select the conversion option and apply other settings like Filter attachments extension, filter emails and saving location on the computer.

• Press the Compress now button and start the MBOX file compression process.

Conclusion

In this blog, we have explained an automated method to compress MBOX files and folders. There are manual methods also available, but they have limitations and have a chance of data loss. With an advanced tool like eSoftTools MBOX compress software, you can compress MBOX files in bulk.