Luis Apiolaza1d ago

Used Google Takeout to get all my photos from Google Photos. Right now I’m downloading 18 zip files, 2 GB each. Then I have to put together the file structure so I can put it together somewhere else. Very messy process.

Open to suggestions on how to deal with this. Meanwhile, I’ll copy all this in a couple of hard drives. #degoogle

Show threadwhopper1d ago
@ojala need help? I just a script which copies all files from the subdirectories in one big target directory. Adds timestamp if filennames are duplicate. Afterwards delete meta data by filetype. Then on top put a photo app of your choice. (Here Linux plus gthumb)
Show threadLuis Apiolaza

@whopper After putting together all the zip files I used this script https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/releases but I still got some issues with timestamps, mostly for videos.

Do you have an alternative, better behaved script?

Releases · TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

Script that organizes the Google Takeout archive into one big chronological folder - TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

GitHub
Apr 3 at 9:39pmWeb
Show threadwhopper8h ago
@ojala no worse script. Had to do a lot of manual work afterwards. But I took the chance to delete couple of hundred photos.
Show threadLuis Apiolaza8h ago

@whopper I'm going over manual work now AND deleting photos. Once I'm done, setting up back ups to HDD and, probably, stashing things in a cloud provider (perhaps in Europe).

Moving photo processing to Linux.

Show threadwhopper7h ago
@ojala already on Linux mint. Which app do you use? And which cloud? I’m currently trying Filen.io. European. 2€ for 200GB. Apps for android iOS and Linux. Sync works fine so far. (Haven’t tried with the 18k pics )
Show threadLuis Apiolaza7h ago

@whopper I'm on Ubuntu. Currently trying pcloud and filen, going for a 500 GB. I'll be testing syncing macos - linux during the coming week.

Rawtherapee for processing RAW files, I should try Digikam to organise photos.