gphotos_sort VS gphotos-sync

Sometime the browser does not refresh immediately.. look at https://photos.google.com/search/_tra_ (recently added), if you see the 4 photos there, go to https://photos.google.com/ and refresh (multiple times, if necessary).

On the web app (photos.google.com) and the android app, it's "description" but yes i agree with this post regardless. You can use it for keywords or whatever you want and it becomes way more searchable.

With my latest set of photos taken with a Pixel 8 Pro, the photos in the albums display with the album name, but the date doesn't display for them (and only them). Previous photos from previous albums are fine. The exif data on the new Pixel 8 Pro photos looks correct when viewed both within Google Photos app and photos.google.com.

When viewed via https://photos.google.com they error: "An error occurred. Please try again later."

That’s strange. Can you see them on https://photos.google.com?

Delete from https://photos.google.com.

However, I just tried doing a "3 dot" Download all in an album in photos.google.com , as well as a Takeout of the same album. File sizes are the same, and seems like the metadata is in both downloads... I have checked with exiftool too!

1) Open any web browser and go to photos.google.com 2) Click on 'Create Album', and give it a Title e.g. Screenshots 3) Click on 'Add Photos' 4) Click on the upload cloud at the top right 5) Click 'Select from computer' 6) In the dialog box that opens, scroll down the left pane to Media > Photos and click it 7) In the right pane, below the Photos app icon, scroll down to Albums > Screenshots 8) All screenshots will be displayed. Select all, click 'Open' and import into Google Photos 9) In Photos on Mac, find 'Screenshots' under albums. Select and delete all to free up iCloud space.

I can see the "motion" icon on photos.google.com but its not showing all the individual photos at the bottom of the screen. How can I turn this on so I can edit one and delete the rest.

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.