google-photos-exif VS GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

Not right now, sorry!

There's this tool that can fix capture times: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif

There are perhaps more that I'm unaware of.

This guide tells you to delete the JSON file that are crucial for both geotag info and in general EXIF.

I don’t recall the script I used last time, but GitHub is pretty full of good Samaritans, eg: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif

I'm doing the same thing right now. To get the metadata from the JSON files applied to the photo's EXIF data, I'm using this: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif

A couple of GitHub repos have helpful tools to assist with EXIF data. In particular, I used https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif which worked for me, but YMMV.

If it is a single backup. Just use Google Takeout and tools like google-photos-exif.

No kidding! I was trying to fix them all manually (48GB worth) using https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif, and exiftool.

I did google takeout to download all originals. A lot of the photos had json files that contained the exif data. I used this tool to merge the metadata into the image files. Once done, I dragged all the photos into the photos app on Mac and let it do its thing

Google takeout, then use this tool to sort out the json files with the images, transfer to iPhone then just wait for iCloud to upload

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?

Hi there! I actually crated a tool just for this purpose - you can check it out: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper