![]() This needs to be an empty directory and can be anywhere on the disk. ![]() an outputDir directory path where processed files will be moved to.an inputDir directory path containing the extracted Google Takeout.The path of this directory will be what we pass into the tool as the inputDir. Extract the zip file into a directory.Click "Create Export", wait for a link to be sent by email and then download the zip file.If you do this, be sure to merge the contents of any directories with the same name, rather than overwriting them. Important: If your collection is larger than this (or you need to export it as multiple smaller archives) then you will need to merge the resultant folders together manually before using this tool. Under "File type & size" I recommend increasing the file size to 50GB.If you don't do this you will end up with duplicates. Important: If you have custom albums (ones with non-date names), deselect these because the images will already be referenced by the date-based albums.Deselect any "Hangout: *" albums unless you specifically want to include images from chats. Keep all of the date-based albums selected.Deselect all products and then tick Google Photos.At the time of writing the steps to do this are: The first step to using this tool is to request & download a Google Takeout. Some file formats such as GIFs or MP4 videos don't have this metadata and thus also get sorted into the wrong place when run through tools that organise images based on the metadata timestamps.they were shared with me or imported into the library by other means, and the source did not include a timestamp in the EXIF metadata) My guess is that these images originated from other sources (e.g. Whilst most of my images contained reasonable EXIF timestamps for the time they were taken (written by the phone's camera), a small number did not.Instead, Google's metadata comes out in the accompanying JSON files. EXIF / IPTC) in the image files is not updated if changes are made within Google Photos, for example if the dates are updated using the Google Photos UI. From what I can tell, the embedded metadata (e.g.For an image named IMG123.jpg, sometimes you get but sometimes it's just IMG123.json The naming convention for the JSON files seems inconsistent and has some interesting edge cases.In the case that the export was split across multiple zips, I'm not sure whether there is any guarantee that the images & JSON files will always be co-located within the same export ![]()
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