5/18/2023 0 Comments Google photos takeout json![]() Takeout didn’t work, so I have to find a way to move photos within Google Photos. I don’t like Live Photos either, but I don’t want them to be broken. I didn’t test it but I suppose that this means that if you attempt to re-upload the photos back into Google Photos, Live Photos would become one still photo and one very quick video, even if you go all the way to fix DateTimeOriginal EXIF issues with mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif or Metadata Fixer. mov file, and Google Takeout presents them to you as exactly that. ![]() Speaking of Live Photos, they contain one. Old photos that are just really really old, old enough that its EXIF was already lost in timeĬan’t really blame Google Takeout for not including EXIF for those photos as they are not there in the first place. Photos saved from chat, and some chat apps strips EXIF when sendingĮdited photos where the photo editor doesn’t set EXIF correctly heic file sets DateTimeOriginal EXIF, the. mov files of Live Photos / motion photos (only the. … which revealed O(1,000)s of photos without DateTimeOriginal EXIF, damn it.īy a quick glance, most of these photos falls into one of these categories: type f \( -not -iname "*.json" \) -exec print_if_no_datetimeoriginal \ | tee ~/no-date.txt I wrote a little script to assess how bad the situation is:įind. There’s no DateTimeOriginal in EXIF, and that information is only available in the photoTakenTime field of the sidecar JSON file. ➜ Photos from 2014 exiftool -DateTimeOriginal IMG_0609.JPG json file), hence Google Photos has fall backed to the file creation date, which is the date that I requested Takeout. Then I realized it was because they don’t have the “Date Taken” EXIF information (that metadata is in the sidecar. ![]() After a few hours, I went to and took a peak at the uploaded photos, and saw a ton of photos appears as they were taken a few days ago. I put them on an external drive, unzipped the archives on top of each other, and let the Google Drive app start uploading them to Google Photos. Glad I still have unlimited Drive storage so I can just rclone copy them from my Drive’s Takeout folder, cause good luck if you try to download them from web. I went ahead and requested a full copy of my Google Photos data. Attempt 3: Google TakeoutĪt the end of the day, Google Takeout is always there for you. Sounds like the perfect way to move photos, right? Nope, I ran into this issue where Partner Sharing doesn’t include location metadata, which is unacceptable for me. Google Photos has this convenient feature called Partner Sharing, where you can share all your photos along with all their metadata to a partner account, and the partner account can be configured to save all shared photos automatically. Remember when the two-way sync between Google Photos and Drive was discontinued in 2019? rclone copy gets you a copy of all your photos up until 2019 as files, but nothing after is present in that directory. Now I just need to migrate things to my fresh new storage, what could go wrong? Isn’t that just as ez as some: ![]() "You can't go a day on HN and many other places without people bitching about Google customer support." Table of Contents It’s nice that they mention “expert support”, Google is finally listening to its users. After all, eat your own dogfood, right? So I pulled out my credit card, and within minutes, “Welcome to Google One, Chris!”: I guess it’s finally time to start paying for things. It's nice that they even drew a nice visualization of your files flying to OneDrive. ![]() I suppose we all knew this won’t last forever, but I what didn’t foresaw was that my school immediately decided to jump to OneDrive. Party’s over, unlimited Google Drive storage for Education is ending. And no, there’s no privileged or confidential information. Opinions are my own, not necessarily those of my employer. Disclaimer: I work for Google but not on any of the mentioned products, I’m just one of Google One’s paying customers. ![]()
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