Re:I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again
by lima on Sunday May 07, 2023 @05:49AM
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> and BTW you cannot get the photos out at the same quality as you put them in
You can get the original photos out, but they're either making it annoying on purpose, or just don't care:
- When you download a photo through the web UI, you get the original file, metadata and all, but there's no way of batch-downloading everything.
- Google Takeout will give you the original image and the metadata, but they store them separately, and make no effort to put them back together and you have to do it yourself using one of many third-party tools. Given that they have the code to do it, this feels very hostile indeed.
You can get the original photos out, but they're either making it annoying on purpose, or just don't care:
- When you download a photo through the web UI, you get the original file, metadata and all, but there's no way of batch-downloading everything.
- Google Takeout will give you the original image and the metadata, but they store them separately, and make no effort to put them back together and you have to do it yourself using one of many third-party tools. Given that they have the code to do it, this feels very hostile indeed.