Vault export contents

After you use Google Vault to search for the data you want, you can export a copy of that data and download it for further analysis. An export contains the following information:

• A comprehensive copy of the data that matched your search criteria
• The metadata you need to link the exported data to individual users in your organization
• The corroborating information required to prove that the exported data matches the data stored on Google’s servers

On this page

• Gmail exports
• Google Chat & Groups exports
• Google Drive exports
• Google Voice exports
• Google Calendar exports
• Google Gemini app exports
• Error reports
• Error report contents

Gmail exports

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Export contents

How Chat messages are organized in an export file

To provide context for Chat messages, your search results, preview, and export files include messages sent in the same conversation or thread as the matching messages. Chat messages are organized in an export file as follows:

• Messages are grouped by conversation, thread, or Chat space.
• If your export includes messages from several conversations, the conversations are in reverse chronological order based on the most recent matching message. For example, if the last matching message in one conversation was sent at 1 PM, and the last matching message in another conversation was sent at 8 PM, messages from the conversation with the 8 PM message are listed first in the export file, then the messages from the conversation with the 1 PM message.
• Within each conversation or Chat space, messages are in chronological order.

  Note: If you review your export in an email client, messages are in chronological order and aren’t grouped by conversation.

Reducing duplicate messages

When many messages in the same conversation or thread match your search, there can be overlap in the messages provided for context. To avoid exporting duplicate messages, Vault evaluates the overlap and groups messages accordingly.

For example, a conversation has 2 messages that match the search query, one sent at 9 AM on Monday and the other sent at 3 PM on Monday. The matching messages have the following context windows:

• 9 AM message: 9 PM Sunday to 9 PM Monday
• 3 PM message: 3 AM Monday to 3 AM Tuesday

The context windows overlap between 3 AM and 9 PM Monday. When the messages are exported, only one series of messages is returned for the conversation and it includes all messages sent between 9 PM Sunday and 3 AM Tuesday.

If another message in the conversation matches but was sent more than 24 hours after the previous matching message, then a second message grouping is created and returned in the export. Continuing the previous example, if another matching message was sent at 11 AM Thursday, its context window is from 11 PM Wednesday to 11 PM Thursday. This window doesn’t overlap with the previous window, which ended at 3 AM Tuesday, so the messages in this window are returned in a second group.

Information	File name	Description
Message contents	export_name-N.zip	PST or mbox files with the contents and details of the exported messages. Learn about options for reviewing PST and mbox files. The message files are named export_name-account-randomstring.mbox or export_name-account-randomstring.pst, where account is the full email address of the custodian (the account that sent or received the message). If the messages for an account exceed 1 GB for PST files or 10 GB for mbox files, they're exported in zip files. The files within are appended with a 6-character randomized string. The zip files are numbered sequentially. For example, if there are more than 10 GB of mbox files in the export, my-export could contain the following files for [e-mail]: my-export-1.zip    [e-mail]    [e-mail] my-export-2.zip    [e-mail]-f_5gjg.mbox If you're exporting PST files, the extension of the additional files is .pst. To decrypt client-side encrypted messages in mbox files, use the decrypter utility (beta). To view client-side encrypted emails in the PST format, import each users’ p7m file into Microsoft Outlook.
Message metadata	export_name-metadata.csv export_name-metadata.xml	export_name-metadata.csv–A CSV file that contains message metadata as it exists on Google servers. Open this file in a spreadsheet editor, and use it to connect message metadata with the message contents from the mbox file. export_name-metadata.xml–An XML file that contains message metadata as it exists on Google servers. Open this file in a spreadsheet editor, and use it to connect message metadata with the message contents from the mbox file.  In addition to the fields that are available in both the CSV and XML, Gmail Classification labels are only included in the XML file. Learn more about the metadata file.
Accounts and message count	export_name-result-counts.csv	A CSV file that lists the accounts of message owners included in the export, the number of messages owned by each account, and how many messages were successfully exported or had errors. Learn more about the count file.
Drive links	export_name-drive-links.csv	A CSV file that lists the Drive file hyperlinks extracted from the Gmail message content. This file is only included if you enable the Export linked Drive files option and there is at least one Drive hyperlink in the exported messages. For each hyperlink, you get the: RFC822 message ID of the email containing the link Unique message ID of the email containing the link Hyperlink to the Drive file Document ID of the Drive file If the same email ID appears more than once, multiple Drive links were found in the same message body. The CSV file includes the hyperlinks regardless of whether you have permission to export them. You can look up the document ID in the Drive export files or error metadata to see if the export of a hyperlink was successful.
Error report	export_name-errors.xml	An XML file that lists errors retrieving messages. It's always part of the export, even when no errors occurred. Learn more about the error report.
Messages that didn't convert to PST	export_name-conversion_errors-N.zip	When you export in PST format, this file contains any messages that weren't converted to PST. Each message is a separate EML file named with the value of the Message-ID: header for each message. You get many zip files when there are more than 10 GB of messages.
File checksums	File checksums	A file that lists the message digest 5 (MD5) hash values for all files in the export.

Message parameters in the metadata file

The metadata CSV and XML files list the following information for each message. The value is blank if the information isn't available or doesn't apply to a message.

Column	Description	Note
Rfc822MessageId	A message ID that is the same for the receiver's and sender's messages. Use this value to correlate metadata with the message in an mbox export.	CSV file only
GmailMessageId	A unique message ID. Use this value to manage specific messages with the Gmail API.	CSV file only
DocId	A unique message ID. Use this value to manage specific messages with the Gmail API.	XML file only
Account	The account that has the message in its inbox. For example, [e-mail] received a message sent to [e-mail] because user1 is a member of groupA. If a search returns the message because it's in user1's inbox, then the value of To is [e-mail] and the value of Account is [e-mail].
From	The sender account.
To	The recipient account. Multiple recipients are comma-separated and the list is in double quotes.	Gmail only
CC	Accounts in the cc: field.	Gmail only
BCC	Accounts in the bcc: field.	Gmail only
Subject	The message subject.	Gmail only
Labels	Labels applied to the message by Gmail or the user.	Gmail only
DateSent	The message send date in UTC (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZ).	Gmail only
DateReceived	The message received date (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZ).	Gmail only
LabelName	For Gmail items, the name of the classification Gmail labels and fields, if any. The labels included in the export are from the item's current version. The LabelName is available in the XML metadata file only.

Information in the count file

The count CSV file contains a list of the searched accounts and the number of messages in the export associated with each account.

The first row is for Totals, which lists the total exported and error messages for all emails in the export. Results are sorted in descending order of the number of successfully exported messages for that email address.

Note about counting

If a message matches the export query but fails to convert to PST format, it's counted as a success in this file. You can review the messages that didn't convert in the export_name-conversion_errors-N.zip file.

Column	Description
Email	The email address of the sender or recipient.
AccountStatus	If messages for the email account were successfully exported. Value can be the following: Success–Vault retrieved all messages for export. PartialAccountError–Vault was unable to retrieve all the messages for export. AccountError–Vault was unable to retrieve any messages for export.
SuccessCount	The number of messages successfully exported.
MessageErrorCount	The number of messages that aren't included in the export. These messages are identified in the error CSV file.

Google Chat & Groups exports

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Export contents

Information	File name	Description
Message contents	export_name-N.zip	Zip files of PST or mbox files. These files contain the contents and details of the exported messages. For Chat messages, these details include when the sender edited or deleted a message. The file names end with an increment to distinguish the files. Learn about options for reviewing PST and mbox files. You get multiple zip files in the following scenarios: The export includes messages from more than one account. The file size exceeds 1 GB for PST files or 10 GB for mbox. To decrypt client-side encrypted messages in mbox files, use the decrypter utility (beta). To view client-side encrypted emails in the PST format, import each user's p7m file into Microsoft Outlook.
Google Groups membership information	export_name-group-membership.csv	A CSV file that lists the following information for each group member: Member's email addresses Email address of the group When the user became a member of the group Member's role–MEMBER for a group member, MANAGER for a group manager, or OWNER for a group owner Type of account–USER for an individual user account or GROUP for a group email address
Message metadata	export_name-metadata.xml export_name-metadata.csv	export_name-metadata.xml–An XML file that contains Groups or Chat message metadata as it exists on Google servers. Learn more export_name-metadata.csv–A CSV file that contains Gmail metadata as it exists on Google servers. Learn more Note: PST file contents can’t be correlated with the XML file metadata.
Accounts and message count	export_name-results-count.csv	A CSV file that lists the accounts of message owners included in the export and the number of messages owned by each account.
Error reports	error.csv export_name–failed-group-membership-lookups.csv (Groups exports)	Error reports are included only if the export encounters errors. error.csv—Lists errors retrieving messages. Learn more export_name-failed-group-membership-lookups.csv—Lists group email addresses that were searched but not all members were returned
File checksums	File checksums	Lists the message digest 5 (MD5) hash values for all files in the export.

Message parameters in the metadata file

The metadata file contains the following information:

Metadata for Groups messages

• #From—Email account of the sender
• #To—Email accounts of all recipients
• #CC—Email accounts of all Cc'd recipients
• #BCC—Email accounts of all Bcc'd recipients
• #Subject—Message subject
• #DateSent—Timestamp for when the message was sent
• #DateReceived—Timestamp for when the message was received

Metadata for Chat messages

• #DateFirstMessageSent—Timestamp for when the first message in a conversation was sent
• #DateLastMessageSent—Timestamp for when the last message in a conversation was sent
• #DateFirstMessageReceived—Timestamp for when the first message in a conversation was received
• #DateLastMessageReceived—Timestamp for when the last message in a conversation was received
• RoomID–Space, group chat, or DM identifier that the message belongs to
• Participants–Email addresses of all users who participated in the conversation
• Labels—Labels applied by Chat, such as ^INBOX, ^TRASH, and ^DELETED. Also shows any labels applied to the message by the user.
• RoomName–The value depends on the type of message:
  • For Chat spaces, the name of the space
  • For group conversations created after early December 2020, Group chat
  • For group conversations created before early December 2020 and DMs, a comma-separated list of accounts that participated
• ConversationType–The message type:
  • For a group chat created after early December 2020 or a space, the value is Room
  • For a group chat created before December 2020, the value is Group Direct Message
  • For a DM, the value is 1:1 Direct Message

Metadata for all messages (Groups and Chat)

• FileName—Message identifier. Use this value to correlate metadata with the corresponding message in an email client or a text editor.
• FileSize—Size of the message in bytes
• Hash—MD5 hash of the message

Query parameters for the entire export

• UserQuery—Query submitted by the Vault user that retrieved the messages included in this export
• TimeZone—Time zone used for date-based searches
• Custodians—Email addresses of the users whose accounts were searched. If you search for content rather than individual user accounts, no custodians are listed here.

Message parameters in the Google Groups metadata file (CSV)

The metadata CSV file lists the following information for groups' messages. The value is blank if the information isn't available or doesn't apply to a message.

Column	Description
Rfc822MessageId	Message ID that is the same for the receiver's and sender's messages. Use this value to correlate metadata with the message in an mbox export.
GmailMessageId	Unique message ID. Use this value to manage specific messages with the Gmail API.
Account	The account that has the message in its inbox. For example, [e-mail] received a message sent to [e-mail] because user1 is a member of groupA. If a search returns the message because it's in user1's inbox, then the value of To is [e-mail] and the value of Account is [e-mail].
From	Sender account
To	Recipient account. Multiple recipients are comma-separated and the list is in double quotes
CC	Accounts in the cc: field
BCC	Accounts in the bcc: field
Subject	Message subject
Labels	Labels applied to the message by groups
DateSent	The date the message was sent in UTC (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZ).
DateReceived	The date the message was received in UTC (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZ).

Google Drive exports

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Export contents

Information	File name	Description
Files	export_name_N.zip	Contains all the files and sites found by your search. Vault exports up to 10 GB of data in a single compressed file. If you export more than 10 GB of data, Vault creates multiple files. Exported files are named with the original name of the file followed by an underscore ("_") and the Drive file ID. Exported Google files are converted as follows: Google Docs to DOCX Google Sheets to XLSX Google Forms to ZIP (HTML and CSV) Google Slides to PPTX Google Drawings to PDF Google Sites to PDF. Each page in a site is saved as a separate PDF file that's named using the site-name_page-name_site-ID_page-ID.pdf format. Google Vids to MP4 Note: When you export client-side encrypted files, the files remain encrypted, and the filenames end with .gcse. To decrypt the files, use Google client-side decrypter. When you decrypt a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file, the file name ends with .gdoc. The decrypter can’t convert these files to DOCX, XLSX, or PPTX yet.
File metadata	export_name-metadata.xml	Contains metadata, including: Document IDs (Note: These IDs are not the Drive file IDs. They correspond to values in the CSV file.) User email addresses Created and modified dates for each file Document types and titles Learn more
Accounts and doc IDs	export_name-custodian-docid.csv	Lists user accounts with their associated document IDs. Use this information to determine which users have access to the exported files. This file is not included if you're exporting Gmail data and you enable the Export linked Drive files option. For details, go to Start an export.
Error reports	error.csv export_name-incomplete-accounts.csv	Error reports are included only if the export encounters errors. error.csv—Lists errors retrieving files and the file metadata. Learn more export_name-incomplete-accounts.csv—Lists accounts that were searched but not all matching files were exported
File checksums	File checksums	The file lists the message digest 5 (MD5) hash values for all files in the export.

File parameters in the metadata file

The metadata file included with your export captures the following metadata:

Included with each file

Column	Description
DocID	A unique identifier for the file. For sites exports, the value is the page ID.
#Author	The email address of the person who owns the file in Drive. For a shared drive file, it shows the shared drive name.
Collaborators	The accounts and groups that have direct permission to edit the file or add comments. Also includes users with indirect access to the file if you chose this option during export.
Viewers	The accounts and groups that have direct permission to view the file. Also includes users with indirect access to the file if you chose this option during export.
#DateCreated	The date a Google file was created in Drive. For non-Google files, usually the date the file was uploaded to Drive. Learn more about timestamps for uploaded files.
#DateModified	The date the file was last modified. Learn more about timestamps for uploaded files.
#Title	The filename as assigned by the user. Because some operating systems can't expand zip files with extremely long filenames, Vault truncates the filename at 128 characters during export. The value shown by the #Title tag isn't truncated.
DocumentType	The file type for Google files. Possible values are: DOCUMENT—A document created in Google Docs SPREADSHEET—A spreadsheet created in Google Sheets PRESENTATION—A presentation created in Google Slides FORM—A form created in Google Forms DRAWING—A drawing created in Google Drawings SITES_PAGE—A page from a site created in new Google Sites VID—A video created in Google Vids
Duration	For Google Vids, the duration of the video recording in milliseconds.
Others	The accounts from your query that have indirect access to the file if you opted to exclude access level information during export. May also include users for whom Vault couldn't determine permission levels at the time of export.
SitesTitle	For sites, the name of the page.
PublishedURL	For sites, the web address of the published page. Value is empty for unpublished sites.
DocParentID	For sites, a unique identifier for the site the page is part of.
SharedDriveID	The identifier of the shared drive that contains the file (if applicable).
LabelName	For Drive items, the name of the Drive labels and fields, if any. The labels included in the export are from the item's current version.
SourceHash	A unique hash value for each version of a file. Can be used to deduplicate file exports and verify the exported file is an exact copy of the source file. Supported by Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files only.
FileName	The file name. Use this value to correlate the metadata with the file in the export ZIP file.
FileSize	The size of the file in bytes.
Hash	The MD5 hash of the file.
ClientSideEncrypted	Indicates that the file was encrypted with Google Workspace client-side encryption. Files that aren't client-side encrypted don't include the ClientSideEncrypted tag.
Reviews	A section that lists metadata for file approvals. Not included when no approvals were requested on the file. For each approval request, a Review section contains the following information: ApprovalId—A unique identifier for the review CreatedAt—The time when approval was requested ModifiedAt—The last time the approval status changed Approvers—A comma-separated list of the approvers’ emails ApprovalStatus—The status of the approval. Possible values are: IN_PROGRESS—An approval was requested APPROVED—All approvers approved the file DECLINED—An approver declined the request to approve the file CANCELLED—An approver rejected the file
ContentVersionDate	If a version date was included in the export query, the date when a specific version of a Drive document was saved.
SlideRecording	Metadata about recordings (if exported item is a Slides presentation with associated recordings). For details, go to Use slides recording in Google Slides.

 

Query parameters for the entire export

Column	Description
UserQuery	The query submitted by the Vault user that retrieved the files included in this export.
TimeZone	The time zone used for date-based searches.
Custodians	The email addresses of the users whose accounts were searched. If you searched for content rather than individual user accounts, there are no custodians listed here.

Exporting access-level information for users with indirect access to files

When you export files from Drive, the metadata file may include information about users in your organization who have indirect access to, and have opened a file that matches your search criteria.

A user can have indirect access when a file or folder containing a file is:

• Shared with a group the user belongs to
• Shared with the domain
• Shared publicly

During export, you can choose the information you want to include in the metadata output:

• In the export dialog, check the box to have Vault determine the permission level for users in your domain who have indirect access to files. Each of these users is included in one of these categories when you open the metadata file:

  • Collaborators—Users who have indirect permission to edit or add comments to a file.
  • Viewers—Users who have indirect permission to view a file.
  • Others—In some circumstances, Vault can't determine the type of access a user has at the time of export. This can happen, for example, if a file was shared with a group, and the user was later removed from the group.

  Vault takes time to determine what permissions these users have, so this option can increase the time it takes to prepare your files for download.

• In the export dialog, leave the box unchecked (default) to exclude access-level information for users in your domain with indirect access to files. These users are listed as Others in the metadata file.

Google Voice exports

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Export contents

Information	File name	Description
Voice data files	export_name-N.zip	A zip file is generated for each account and contains PST or mbox files of text conversations, call logs, voicemail MP3 audio files, and voicemail transcriptions.
File metadata	export_name-metadata.xml	An XML file is generated that contains metadata as it exists on Google servers.
File checksums	File checksums	A checksum file is generated with message digest 5 (MD5) hash values for all files included in the export.
Error report	error.csv	Error reports are included only if the export encounters errors. Learn more

Note: Unlike other services, Voice exports don’t include a count file.

Voice data parameters in the metadata file

The metadata file contains the following information:

Information about each file

• DocID—A unique identifier for the file.
• #Author—The email address of the account that owns the file in Drive.
• #DateFirstMessageSent—For text conversations, the date the first message was sent. Note: This and the following 3 fields are identical in entries for voicemails and call logs.
• #DateLastMessageSent—For text conversations, the date the last message was sent.
• #DateFirstMessageReceived—For text conversations, the date the first message was received.
• #DateLastMessageReceived—For text conversations, the date the last message was received.
• ConversationType—The data type:
  • TEXT_MESSAGE—A text message
  • VOICEMAIL—A voicemail
  • INCOMING_CALL—A call log of an incoming call
  • OUTGOING_CALL—A call log of an outgoing call
  • MISSED_CALL—A call log of an unanswered incoming call
• ParticipantPhoneNumbers—The phone numbers of the participants
• OwnerPhoneNumbers—The value includes multiple phone numbers when the user's number changed
• Labels—Any labels on the conversation. For example, deleted conversations have the DELETED label
• ExternalFile FileName—The file identifier, which correlates to the Subject in the PST or mbox file

Query parameters for the entire export

• UserQuery—The query submitted by the Vault admin
• TimeZone—The time zone of the query
• Custodians—The email addresses of the accounts that were searched

Google Calendar exports

Export contents

Information	File name	Description
Files	export_name_N.zip	Internet Calendar Scheduling (ICS) or Personal Storage Table (PST) files with users' calendar events. One file is created for each user. For extremely large calendars, the export might be split into several files. When you export client-side encrypted files, the export contains separate files: Non-encrypted events are in .ics or .pst files. Encrypted events are in .ics.gcse files. To decrypt the files, use the Google client-side decrypter. Export an event If the event is in a series, you can export only the full series. For details, go to Search & export an event series. If the event contains a hyperlink to a Drive file, the link is included in the export but the file itself is not. Export a PST file If the PST file doesn’t support an email address format, the address is replaced with the placeholder [e-mail]
File metadata	export_name-metadata.csv	An identifier for each event and the account to which it belongs
Accounts and event count	export_name-result-counts.csv	The file includes for each account: AccountStatus—Indicates whether the export for this user was successful. It displays Success, PartialAccountError if some events are missing for this user and AccountError if the export completely fails for the user. SuccessCount—Indicates how many events were exported. CalendarEventErrorCount—Indicates how many exported events had errors (but excludes events that failed to export).
Error reports	export_name-errors.xml	The file lists the errors that occurred when retrieving events. The file is always part of the export, even when no errors occur. For details, go to Error report contents for Calendar (later on this page).

Gemini app exports

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Export contents

Information	File name	Description
Conversation content	export_name.zip	A zipped file containing one XML file for each conversation owner. Each XML file contains the exported prompts and responses that match your search criteria. To provide context, Vault includes all prompts and responses from the same conversation sent 12 hours before and 12 hours after the matched prompt or response. Learn more about the Gemini app conversation content file.
Accounts and conversations count	export_name-result-counts.csv	A CSV file that lists the accounts of conversation owners included in the export and how many messages were successfully exported or had errors. Learn more about the Gemini app count file.
File checksums	File checksums	A checksum file is generated with message digest 5 (MD5) hash values for all files included in the export.
Error report	export_name-error.xml	An XML file that lists errors retrieving conversations. It's always part of the export, even when no errors occurred. Learn more.

Note: Unlike other services, Gemini app exports don’t include a metadata file.

Gemini app conversation content file

Column	Description
Email	The email address of the owner of the Gemini app conversation.
ConversationId	A unique ID that identifies each Gemini app conversation.
ConversationTopic	The topic name.
ConversationTurn	Contains information about a specific prompt-response pair, including User prompt Gemini app response Gemini model version Parent-request ID, if this is a child request
Timestamp	The timestamp for a specific prompt-response pair in UTC (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZ).

Gemini app count file

The count CSV file export_name-result-counts.csv contains a list of the searched accounts and the number of conversations in the export associated with each account.

Field	Description
Email	The email address of the owner of the Gemini app conversation.
AccountStatus	Indicates whether the conversations for the email account were successfully exported. The value can be one of the following: Success–Vault retrieved all conversations for export./li> PartialAccountError–Vault was unable to retrieve all the conversations for export. AccountError–Vault was unable to retrieve any conversations for export.
SuccessCount	Indicates how many Gemini app prompt-response pairs were exported for the account.

Error reports

When Vault is unable to export data from a service, Vault generates an error report. The report lists the items with export errors along with more details and metadata.

Vault reports two types of errors:

• Transient errors—A backend server was unable to retrieve the email message or file. The item should be available for export when you search for it later.
• Non-transient errors—Any error that's not explicitly labeled as transient is the result of an issue that cannot be corrected. Typically these errors occur when a message attachment or file was deleted, isn't supported for export, or can't be converted to the requested format.

To determine if the problem is transient or non-transient, open the CSV file with Google Sheets or another spreadsheet app and find the Error Description column. Note: Error descriptions aren't available for Voice exports.

Recover from transient errors

You can use message and file details to search for and export the data that wasn't exported due to transient errors:

• If the error report includes messages with transient errors, use each message’s RFC 822 identifier to find those specific messages when you search again. The format of the search term is rfc822msgid:identifier.
• If the error report includes Drive files with transient errors, use each file's title to find those specific files when you search again. The format of the search term is title:"title-of-file".

Error report contents

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Error report contents for Gmail

Summary section

The error report contains the following data for the entire export in a Summary section.

Field	Description
AccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts that Vault was unable to retrieve any messages for export.
PartialAccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts that Vault was unable to retrieve all messages for export.
MessageErrorsCount	The number of messages that Vault was unable to retrieve completely from Gmail. For these messages, Vault retrieves the metadata but not all the message content.
Account	The account that has the message in its inbox. For example, [e-mail] received a message sent to [e-mail] because user1 is a member of groupA. If a search returns the message because it's in user1's inbox, then the value of To is [e-mail] and the value of Account is [e-mail].
Count	The number of errored messages associated with a specific account.
PSTConversionErrorsCount	The number of messages that weren’t converted to PST.
MessageProcessingError	The number of messages that Vault was unable to process because it couldn’t decode the message body. To recover these emails, contact support.

Lists of errors

After the Summary section, the export contains metadata for the accounts and messages that had errors. Values aren't reported if the data isn't available or applicable for a message.

Field	Description
AccountErrors	A list of the users whose messages couldn't be searched. Each entry includes values for Account and Reason.
Reason	For accounts that Vault was unable to retrieve any messages for export, the error returned by Gmail.
PartialAccountErrors	A list of users whose messages were only partially searched.
MessageErrors	The metadata for messages that couldn't be exported. Fields are the same as the metadata file.
PSTConversionErrors	For PST-formatted exports, a list of the Account and Rfc822MessageId values for messages that weren't converted for PST. These messages are available in their original EML format in the export_name-conversion-errors-N.zip file included in the export.
MessageProcessingError	A list of errors returned when the message body couldn’t be decoded by Vault. To recover these emails, contact support.

Error report contents for Groups

The error report contains the following fields for each message. Fields are blank if the data isn't available or applicable for a message.

Field	Description
Document ID	A unique identifier for the file
Document type	The document type. Value is mail.
File type	The file type. Value is mail
Attachments count	The number of attachments to the message
Attachment names	The file names of the attachments
Subject	The message subject
Size	The message size
From	The sender's email account
To	The email accounts of all recipients
Cc	The email accounts of all Cc'd recipients
Sent time	The timestamp for when the message was sent
Source account	The account that was included in the search query
Error description	A description of the error
RFC 822 Message-ID	A unique identifier for a message that's added by mail servers Example: rfc822msgid:AANLkTilQ5MWSp7-iE6SKepvOl- [e-mail]

 

Error report contents for Chat

The error report contains the following fields for each message. Fields are blank if the data isn't available or applicable for a message.

Field	Description
Document ID	A unique identifier for the file
Filename	The document type. Value is mail.
Conversation Type	The type of message. Value is mail.
space Name	The name of the space
Error description	A description of the error

 

Error report contents for Drive files

The error report contains the following fields for each file. Fields are blank if the data isn't available or applicable for a file.

Field	Description
Document ID	A unique identifier for the file
Document type	Indicates the file type for Google files. Possible values are DOCUMENT, SPREADSHEET, PRESENTATION, FORM, DRAWING, SITES_PAGE, and VID.
File type	The file format, such as PDF or XLSX
Title	The filename as assigned by the user
Size	The size of the file
Creator	The email address of the person who owns the file in Drive. For a shared drive file, it shows the shared drive name.
Collaborators	The accounts and groups that have direct permission to edit the file or add comments. Also includes users with indirect access to the file if you chose this option during export.
Viewers	The accounts and groups that have direct permission to view the file. Also includes users with indirect access to the file if you chose this option during export.
Others	The accounts from your query that have indirect access to the file if you opted to exclude access level information during export. May also include users for whom Vault couldn't determine permission levels at the time of export.
Creation time	The date a Google file was created in Drive. For non-Google files, this indicates when the file was uploaded to Drive.
Last modified time	The date the file was last modified
Error description	A description of the error
Drive Document ID	A unique identifier for a file in Drive

 

Error report contents for Voice data

The error report lists accounts that were searched but not all matching files were exported.

Field	Description
Account	The email address of the account that some data wasn’t exported for.
Failed Conversation Count	The number of conversations that weren’t exported. If the number is unknown, the value is Unknown Failure Count.

Error report contents for Calendar

Summary section

The error report contains the following data for the entire export in a Summary section.

Field	Description
AccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts for which no event data could be exported
PartialAccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts for which some event data could not be exported
CalendarEventErrorsCount	The number of accounts for which some event data could not be exported
Account	The account that included the events
Count	The number of events that have errors for a particular account
PSTConversionErrorsCount	The number of events that weren’t converted to a PST file

Lists of errors

After the Summary section, the export contains metadata for the accounts and events that had errors. Values aren't reported if the data isn't available or applicable for an event.

Field	Description
AccountErrors	A list of users whose calendars weren't exported.
PartialAccountErrorsCount	A list of users whose events were partially exported.
CalendarEventErrorsCount	The metadata for events that weren't exported because: Version failure—Event version failed to be recorded. Format failure—Format for the event failed.
PSTConversionErrorsCount	For PST-formatted exports, a list of events that couldn't be converted to a PST file. These events are available in their original ICS format in the export_name-conversion-errors-N.zip file included in the export.

Error report contents for Gemini app

Summary section

The error report contains the following data for the entire export in a Summary section.

Field	Description
AccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts for which no Gemini app conversation data could be exported
PartialAccountErrorsCount	The number of accounts for which some but not all Gemini app conversation data could not be exported

Lists of errors

After the Summary section, the export contains metadata for the accounts and conversations that had errors. Values aren't reported if the data isn't available or applicable for a conversation.

Field	Description
AccountErrors	A list of users whose Gemini app conversations weren't exported. Each entry includes a value for Account.
PartialAccountErrors	A list of users whose events were partially exported. Each entry includes a value for Account.

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