Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
by Daniel_sk on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:52PM
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Also there is no easy way to export all your photos. I learned this the hard way when I decided to move my photos to iCloud. There used to be an option in Drive to link your Google Photos albums and download them, but they removed it. You can request your data from Google and then download a large ZIP, but I had numerous issues with it and it broke the Live photos from iPhone. In the end I had to manually select ~100-200 photos in the iOS Google Photos app and click Download and then do this for all photos (it will not let you select all at once, there is a limit). And then I enabled iCloud to back up the downloaded photos.
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Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
by judge2020 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:17PM
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Probably an issue with them choosing the most general route. They most likely think most people using Takeout want photos they can open and move to other storage/photo services, so putting the converted png/jpg provides more compatibility than the 'heic' photos that are only supported by iCloud and a handful of other services.
I was going to suggest to use rclone to download everything, but it seems that they are a couple of limitations:
https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#downloading-images
Seems that using Google takeout is your best bet.
Downloading as zip files worked for me. It produced a bunch of zip files each of 1GB size.
> there is no easy way to export all your [Google Photos]
If you're in the EU, I'd love to see them try and hold your data hostage as of May 2018. Was this before that time / outside of the EU?