google-photos-exif VS elodie

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

elodie can do this and is very configurable.

It's not currently possible to use osxphotos with photos outside of the Photos.app nor is this a use case I plan to support. osxphotos is very tightly coupled to Photos.app. However, there are other apps that may help. For example elodie is another command line tool that automatically files photos using a customizable naming scheme. I'm the author of osxphotos and I have a similar app, autofile that, like elodie, can automatically file photos (and other file types) based on a customizable template (using the same template language as osxphotos). Unfortunately autofile currently only runs on MacOS but I am working on a re-write that will allow it to run on Windows and Linux. For your use case I think elodie is probably the best option at the moment.

I have an 8 year old app that reminds me a lot of this article.

Something that's worked really well for me was that I created a plugin feature and most new features are actually plugins. This lets me add capabilities without touching or adding logic to the core code.

Last night I added SQLite support as a plugin. 2 code files and one is unit tests. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/pull/443/files

I don't know if this is the best approach but it's worked better than others in my 20+ years of writing software.

I stopped using Google Photos in favor of Synology Photos which comes pretty close in terms of functionality and polish.

Google Photos is excellent.

Synology Photos is really good. And this seems to be a worthwhile tradeoff for me.

Disclaimer: I founded 2 photo startups and have documented the solution I've finally landed on and have been using/evolving for 7 years now.

1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...

I wrote this tool to normalize folder and file names <https://github.com/jmathai/elodie>.

I wrote about the rest of the system in the following posts.

1. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...

Check out https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

Elodie - cli; automatically organizes based on exif data

I've been using this fully automated system for the last 5 years.

I store my photo archive on a Synology NAS at home which Syncs to Dropbox and uploads a copy of each photo to Google Photos for browsing and sharing. I'm hoping to switch to Backblaze, from Dropbox, once Synology Photos is available and drop Google Photos as well.

I've documented the entire process and include source code on Github.

Auto organize based on EXIF: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

Series of posts on Medium: