What's inside a real 35 GB Snapchat export
A 35 GB Snapchat export received in early October 2026 held 5,777 Memories, from 2016 to 2026. Here's everything we counted in it, folder by folder and year by year.
Updated November 8, 2026 · Not affiliated with Snapchat.
By GetMemoriesOut. We wrote these guides from a real Snapchat export that we opened and counted, with Memories from 2016 to 2026. When something couldn't be checked, the guide says so.
What Snapchat sent
The export weighed 35,382,787,863 bytes, or 35 GB. Snapchat splits a large export into ZIPs of about 2 GB. The list of Memories, memories_history.json, was only in the first one.
Photos, videos and PNG images were only in two folders:
- chat_media/: 30,578 files, from chats.
- memories/: 6,561 files, from Memories, overlays included.
So the 35 GB include chats too. The ZIP guide describes each folder and each file name.
Memories, year by year
The export held 5,777 Memories, 570 photos and 5,207 videos, every one dated in memories_history.json.
In Paris time:
- 2016: 29
- 2017: 554
- 2018: 285
- 2019: 874
- 2020: 1,798
- 2021: 552
- 2022: 446
- 2023: 344
- 2024: 300
- 2025: 323
- 2026: 272
The missing Memories guide shows how to count yours.
The files: photos, videos, clips, overlays, duplicates
- Photos and videos: 5,732 in memories/. The largest file weighed 93.7 MB.
- Videos in clips: 685 videos put back together from their clips, and 831 clips left as they were. The split videos guide explains when the tool joins them.
- Overlays: on the only export we measured, about 1 Memory in 7 had an overlay, a separate PNG file. The captions and stickers guide explains how to put it back on the photo.
- Duplicates: the recap spotted 184.
What the files lack
- Photo dates: no photo had a capture date written inside it. Every file but one carried its real date, but only as the file's date.
- Location: no file in the export held one.
- Time on a Mac: when you unzip with a double-click, Finder shifts the files' time. On a Mac set to Paris time, 1 Memory in 20 moved to another day.
The date and location guide shows how to put them back.
What the tool wrote
The GetMemoriesOut recap counted 4,299 files: 559 photos, 3,740 videos and 39 files with no sure date, to sort. It took 4.5 to 6.4 seconds in Chrome.
Once written, the Memories' photos and videos weighed 26,260,551,687 bytes, or 26.3 GB. That figure only counts the Memories the tool sorted; the export's 35 GB include chats too.
The recap is free and gives you the same counts for your export, before you pay. Drop your ZIPs here.
How we counted
These numbers come from the tool's own code, run on October 6 and 7, 2026 on every ZIP of the export in Paris time: one export, measured on a Mac, and nothing checked on Windows.
FAQ
- How big is a Snapchat export?
- It depends on your Memories and your chats. The one on this page weighed 35 GB, in ZIPs of about 2 GB, with Memories from 2016 to 2026.
- Can a Snapchat export be missing Memories?
- Yes, when a ZIP didn't get downloaded, a date filter was left on or Memories weren't selected when you requested it.
- Do the export's photos keep their date?
- The file does: every one but one had its real date. But no photo had a capture date written inside it, and no file held the location.
- Why do my sorted Memories weigh less than the export?
- The export's 35 GB cover everything, chats included. The Memories' photos and videos written by GetMemoriesOut weighed 26.3 GB.
- Where is the list of Memories in the export?
- In memories_history.json, which is only in the first ZIP: one line per Memory, with its date.