How to download all Google Photos | Backup Google Photos and fix Google Takeout JSON Meta Data issue
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Hi Friends,
In this video, let's use “Google Takeout'' to download all of our Google Photos and address the problems associated with the metadata of the download file. Such as incorrect created date. which makes it very difficult to search for our favorite photos of any given date on our PC. Lets get it fixed by using the JSON file downloaded along with the photo.
After we Log in to the URL takeout.google.com, we can download all of our personal data stored across multiple google services such as Google Chrome, Google Drive, G oogle Contacts, Google Keep, Google Play, Google Home, Hangouts, Gmail, TH-cam and so on…
But, for now let's “Deselect all” and choose Google Photos… Multiple formats of Google Photos data would be downloaded such as Photos, Videos and Metadata of them, we can also choose to download specific albums if required.
By clicking “next” at the bottom of the page, we can choose delivery methods such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and so on... But let's choose “send download link via email” remember once email is received we would only have one week of time to download these extracted files.
We can now choose the frequency, file type and size. To reduce the number of files to download I am choosing 10GB as the file size.
By clicking on “create export”, a copy of our google photos would be created, and a download link would be sent to our email, mostly in a few hours or sometimes even days based on the size of our data.
Upon receiving the email from Google, we would have 7 days to download the exported files. These files are compressed and splitted based on the chosen size.
Lets now download all these zip files and extract our media files from it.
Open the extracted folder and refer to the “archive_browser.html” to identify any export issues with the files.
Now, Here comes our main problem, created date of the downloaded media file is incorrectly updated with the downloaded date, due to this incorrect date it would become very difficult to find our favorite photo or video from a well known date, However actual meta data of the file is stored in the JSON file downloaded next to this media file.
Now, let's start fixing the metadata of the downloaded media files absolutely for free.
This Metadata Fixer app uses free and open source software Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, it goes through each media file and their corresponding JSON file and merge them to update the metadata.
So, let's try and use the same technique.
Browse to the url exiftool.org and download the windows executable.
Rename it to exiftool.exe and copy the exe to the C:\Windows folder.
Just for the comparison, I am taking a copy of this folder and rename it to old. All the 4 commands we are going to use would be available in the description of this video.
Now, from the command prompt, browse to the parent folder of the actual photos folder.
Get the name of any file and run this command with the folder name followed by the file name.
It must display all existing metadata of the file including File Created Date.
In the same command Type dot(.) JSON next to the file name to view all available metadata tags in the JSON file. As we can see PhotoTakenTime tag has the right value that can be used to update File creation date.
Finally, to update the metadata of our media file, remember to run this command on the parent directory and pass child directory as parameter at the end.
FilecreatedDate metadata of the media file would be replaced with PhotoTakenTimeStamp metadata tag from the JSON file. Remember we have to use PhotoTakenTimeStamp instead of PhotoTakenTimeFormatted.
Apart from json files all other files in this child folder must get updated.
So, let's run the command, wow… it successfully updated all 13 images in the folder under a second.
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EXIF tool Commands used in this video are:
1. CD [DirectoryName]
2. exiftool -s "[DirectoryName]\[filename].[extension]"
3. exiftool -s "[DirectoryName]\[filename].[extension].json"
4. exiftool -r -d %s -tagsfromfile "%d/%F.json" "-FileCreateDate
for command 3 it is telling that exiftool is not recognised command ,i have already put exiftool exe file in windows folder
@@abhaydangash9650 run command prompt like this. Go to start > type cmd > run as administrator
why to do the directory name thing when i do it i get access is denied ( c:\>D:) please help
Hey. I highly suggest correct the "FileModifyDate" rather than the "FileCreateDate", especially in photos! This is because if you transfer a file to a different device, the file created date may change to the date of transfer. Also many software tends to select the FileModifyDate as the date the photos was taken. I had this problem with my Synology NAS. The command would then be:
exiftool -r -d %s -tagsfromfile "%d/%F.json" "-FileModifyDate
This works perfectly fine with .jpg, jpeg, mov, mp4 and other stuff. The ONLY prob. is that PNG files tend to stick with the file creation date. Do someone know how to fix it?
or maybe .png files isn't supported with my mobile device. I tried to sync the folder containing all the files. Like I've said works perfectly fine with other filetypes, PNG is killing me :
why to do the directory name thing when i do it i get access is denied ( c:\>D:) please help
This was very helpful. I too didn't want to pay for something that is using open source software. Thanks!
Thank you 🙏 for taking time and letting us know our video was helpful.
This video is very nicely done and deserves a lot more views. Your channels deserves a lot more subscribers too for the quality content you make. I'm glad that I was able to find this through search.
😳Wow, Thank you! 🙏 so much for motivating us.
the date got fixed but when I upload the picture on google photos it still uploads in today's date. what to do now?
Nice one, exactly what I was searching for!
Hi Mr V, Thank you so much for letting us know. We are really glad that our video was helpful.
How to insert the location in picture files from the json file ?
Thanks for the video, it helped a lot!
I have two questions:
1. Out of 29 images, 7 images were unchanged. It says: Warning: Error opening file - // Would you know why?
2. Is there a way to transform various folders at the same time, hence I got over 100.
Thank you so much!
Did you find a fix to why it said there was 7 images unchanged?
Amazing presentation! I have a doubt tho, if i have changed the date of a photo using google photos will the new date get downloaded in the json file? Or only the original metadata gets downloaded?
Hi Thank you for appreciation our efforts. We can edit dates in the web version of Google Photos, It does not apply to EXIF data of the photo, when downloaded actual EXIF data of the photo would be in the json file. Ideally we should also see additional tags in the Json for the changes done via Google Photos, so the changed date would also be there but under different tag name in Json file. Hope it helps.
I cannot understand what he is saying half of the time.
I did this, and now I have all the "date created" tag updated, however I want to update the "date taken" tag. Is there anyway to move all the data for about 500 files from the date created tag to the date taken tag?
Yes , just change date created tag to date taken same queries would work
Thank you so much!! my question is after i fix the json metadata on all of my photos, can i delete all of the json files now?
Omg the voice kills my ears
Hi Luksenberg, Apologies for the Audio pitch, we are beginners and still learning, we would improve our Audio overtime. Thank you for the feedback.
3:00 So you are saying here that if I download the photos using Albums, then this issue could be avoided? And photos will download with their date?
Hi... Yes, you are right, if you download as an album this problem does get solved, but we can have only 500 photos per album, If you have small number of photos then it's the best option .👍🏻
Hi, how can I download my photos with the original date? Recently, each time I download a group of photos all the photos have suddenly the download date and the original date is lost. I din't have this issue before and I really don't know how it happened.
This video is pure gold, but I need to do that process in a mac, what should I do?
Hi Nicolas, Thank you for appreciating our efforts. Exif tool has Mac OS version as well. Refer to below link for the instructions exiftool.org/install.html#MacOS . The commands you may have to run it from the Mac terminal. Unfortunately, I do not have Mac OS to test and let you know the exact commands. But same commands must work as expected from MAC terminal after installing the tool.
you're a genius, kid! Thanks!!
It says access is denied when trying the 1st command please help
You're a genius, kid! Thanks!!
Thank you So much
this was super helpful. thanks
This helped me. Thank you soon much. And please ignore the negative comment about your voice. You're doing good work. Keep it up!
Thank you 🙏Shivam for encoraging our efforts. It really means a lot to us.
Hello, thank you for this complete tutorial, i have followed every step and a problem appears in the last one.
i am trying this method on a file with two images but once i execute the last step it says:
1 directories scanned
0 image files read
would you, by any, chance know how to solve this problem?
Hi Hugues, kindly follow the steps as below, it must work
1. CD [DirectoryName]
2. exiftool -s "[DirectoryName]\[filename].[extension]"
3. exiftool -s "[DirectoryName]\[filename].[extension].json"
4. exiftool -r -d %s -tagsfromfile "%d/%F.json" "-FileCreateDate
I like your channel, you are really trying to make some very useful tech videos. I tried your 4th command below on at test folder with 4 files ... 2 jpg and 2 jpg.json ... I found out that 1 out of the 2 files are failed ... I think it is related to the file name which is "2021-01-13(15).jpg" .... I think this tool will not work on symbols like "(" and ")". Please confirm. May be I did something wrong??
Hi Karl Lui, Thank you so much for liking our channel, is your issue still exists , kindly copy and follow the commands as in the pin comment or from description.
My google photo storage is 15gb
But downloaded file size is 28gb
Why is that?
Hi Sharfaraj,
Possible explanations are
1. You have switched at some point to the option to store photos at High Quality rather than original resolution. High Quality images are quota free
2. You have many albums using the same images. Each album has all images in the archive.
3. You had free storage quota at some point then lost it
I believe in your case its duplicated images or videos under albums, If not otherwise.
All objects tagged into albums are duplicated in the Takeout download. If you don't need the album structure, deselect them when configuring the Photos service during Takeout archive request.
While I am running comment no matches found: “*” showing
Hi Mopsy, Kindly copy the commands pinned in the comments section and try again.
What to do for the videos??
I think the video is very useful ,but i can't do this in CMD 😭😭
Hi Naseef, Thank you for appreciating our efforts, can you please let us know why cant you do this in CMD ??
@@RishiKushi i haven't any idea about CMD 😭
@@RishiKushi can you give me your whatsapp number or any other ID
Hi Nassef, you can reach out to us on facebook messenger m.me/RishiandKushi, just press Windows Key + "R" and enter CMD to open command prompt.
@@RishiKushi ok thanks
I'm developer, I have created a script to run this command in background for each folder, do you have command to update the gps tags from json file ?
Else I have to read the documentation of exiftool to get the right command to update the gps tags which is very time consuming for me
Great to know Adhithya
@@RishiKushi Thanks
Share the command to update the geo tag like we updated the datetime, for same exiftool
i cant find the metadata i need to download it
Can i use it on mac also ?
Very useful, thanks!
Hi Armistead, Thank you so much for letting us know. we are glad that it helped.
Hey i have about 100000 photos and 100000 json file, average how much times i needs to correct it?
Hi Naseef, I have trie it only for few photos it almost done it instantly, for 100000 photos it may take an hour, but I recommend splitting into some chunks and observe,
1. Take a chunk of 100 photos to start
2. estimate the time it has taken
3. Validate all the attributes are updated randomly for few files
4. If it's taking shorter time incearse thechunk to 1000, then to 10000 .
Doing this you would get a rough estimate of time it could take for 100000 photos or even more
@@RishiKushi ok thanks 🥰
slow down man
Hi Mcpherson, I would slow down in upcoming videos. Thank you so much for your sugession / feedback, we really appreciate that. Thanks
thanks
Hi Deeptha, You are Most welcome, Thank you for watching our video. 🙏
Gracias!
De rien 🙏 Thank you for watching our video ..🙏
All good and well till you have over 100k videos and photos lol I'd rather pay 50 Australian dollars for the app if its fully automatic
One of the most IRRITATING voices I've ever heard in my life
I am so sorry for making you irritate with my voice. Thank you for giving your honest opinion. I would try my best to get it improved over the time.
Please help, how to download google photos in android mobile.
Hi Vijay, you can use google takeout from mobile as well, open chrome on the mobile and set it to desktop mode and follow the same instructions, however for fixing meta data issues I recommend using a PC. else from Google Photos mobile app, organize albums and download albums one after the another. Hope it helps.
@@RishiKushi thank you so much