LinkedIn import guide

How to download your LinkedIn archive for RoundOS

Export the larger LinkedIn data archive, wait for the complete email, and upload the ZIP to RoundOS so your fundraising memory starts with real relationship context.

Jun 12, 20263 min readSource imports
Use the second email.The useful file is the complete larger archive ZIP. The first LinkedIn email is usually only a partial-ready notification; the second email, roughly a day later, is the one to use.
Complete_LinkedInDataExport.zipReady for RoundOS import
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What you need to know first

Choose the larger data archive, not a narrow custom export.

Expect two emails: the first within about an hour, the second around 24 hours later.

Upload the ZIP from the second email to RoundOS without unzipping it.

Download promptly: LinkedIn says the archive link is available for 72 hours.

Export the archive

LinkedIn's current help flow starts in Settings & Privacy, then Data privacy, then Get a copy of your data. The screenshots below show the same path with the larger archive selected.

01

Open Data privacy in LinkedIn settings

In LinkedIn, open Settings & Privacy, then choose Data privacy. In the How LinkedIn uses your data section, open Download your data or Get a copy of your data.

LinkedIn Data privacy settings with Download your data highlighted in the How LinkedIn uses your data section
Start from Data privacy, then open Download your data.
02

Select the larger data archive

Choose Download larger data archive. This is the archive that includes connections, contacts, account history, messages, and inferred profile activity where available. Do not pick the narrow file checklist if you want RoundOS to learn the useful relationship context.

LinkedIn Download my data page with Download larger data archive selected and Request archive button visible
Select the larger archive and request it.
03

Wait for the second email

After you request the archive, LinkedIn marks the request as pending. Expect two emails: the first usually arrives within an hour and is not the file you want for RoundOS. Wait for the second email, roughly 24 hours later, then download the complete archive ZIP from that message.

LinkedIn Download my data page showing a larger archive request pending
Pending is normal. The complete archive usually arrives later.
04

Upload the ZIP to RoundOS

Use the ZIP from the second email. Do not unzip, rename, or cherry-pick files inside it. Upload the complete archive during onboarding or from your RoundOS context imports screen, then review the suggested CRM updates before applying them.

Why this archive is worth the wait

A LinkedIn archive can give RoundOS more than a static contact list. The useful signal is the relationship history: who you already know, who has gone quiet, who can open a warm path, and which old conversations should turn into a next move.

Import resultLinkedIn archive
812conversations read
126useful CRM memories
47warm paths improved
19stale threads found
Investor thread

Lighthouse asked for cohort retention

Next move
Connector

Omar can intro Beacon and Lighthouse

Warm path
Person memory

Dana cares about NRR and usage expansion

Dossier

The two LinkedIn emails

Within about 1 hour

First email: ignore it for RoundOS

Treat the first message as a partial-ready notification. It can be useful for confirming that LinkedIn received the request, but it is not the complete archive RoundOS should ingest.

Around 24 hours later

Second email: download this ZIP

This is the useful complete archive. Download it promptly, because LinkedIn says requested data is available for 72 hours, then upload that ZIP to RoundOS.

Privacy and import notes

Download the archive from your own computer, not a shared machine. LinkedIn says data download is not currently available on mobile.

Some connection emails may be missing. LinkedIn only includes email addresses when the other member allows connections to download them.

RoundOS uses the archive to propose CRM updates and memories; you review important changes before applying them.

Bring the archive into your actual round.

Upload the complete LinkedIn ZIP, then let RoundOS turn dormant conversations and warm paths into reviewed next moves.