GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper VS gphotos-sync

Download from Google takeout only. For each photo, takeout downloads 2 files-a json file containing its metadata and the actual file itself. Now to fix this issue we'll make use of both the files using the script given below: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper Run this script recursively until all your photos have their dates corrected. dm in case u r stuck on any step

So for the past several hours I have been utilizing Google Takeout so that I can upload my photos directly into iCloud, sort of a backup space for my photos. I downloaded the files, extracted them, and then used the Google Photos takeout helper to help sort through everything. everything was done and I was ready for things to begin backing up to iCloud but it now won’t back up anything because it doesn’t support folders and only wants JPEG files.

There's also this one, but it didn't work with my external drive for some reason: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

Here is a free utility + guide for windows (Edit, it seems there are instructions for Mac too, but you have to use the terminal) , but uploading to iCloud on windows isn’t suggested, doing it in Mac is significantly easier.

Have you tried managing the takout with this?

Sadly, it’s not configurable. It’s just an inherent limitation of the API (1). Takeout is the best alternative, but for something more realtime you can use tools (2) that wrap the browser UI which also exports full quality.

(1) https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync#warning-google-api...

(2) https://github.com/JakeWharton/docker-gphotos-sync

What I did was a very painful process of using Google Takeout and gphotos-sync ( https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync ), manually merging what I knew was missing, and using file counts by month/year to track other missing objects. gphotos-sync is limited by the same API issues as rclone, which is another perfectly fine utility to use, besides the API limitations. On a side note, I use rclone to backup everything to "storj" every night ( delta sync ).

Of course you can do the same perodically or use https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

I haven't tried immich yet, but I am using https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync with great success. I wonder how hard it would be to set up a workflow to get the synced photos into immich.

https://developers.google.com/photos/library/reference/rest/v1/mediaItems/list or https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

I pull mine from Google Photos, with a docker image running a tool: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

Its not perfect, but as a backup, it works well.