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Backing up your content from Google Photos | Harsh Shandilya

Putting your media into Google Photos is easy, taking it out, not as much.

https://msfjarvis.dev/posts/backing-up-your-content-from-google-photos/

[eleazar123]

Thank you so much for this write up! I was trying to get this going by myself, but I kept running into problems. After following your guide I am up and running!

[eleazar123]

Did you run into any trouble with video files failing to download (error: "2023/01/18 15:14:47 downloading in "/mnt/d/gphotos/" took too long to start") and Google saying "Video is still processing & can be downloaded later". I'm getting this constantly on videos, and the downloader can't advance. These videos are from 10yrs ago, so I'm sure Google has already processed them :(

[eleazar123]

Did you run into any trouble with video files failing to download (error: "2023/01/18 15:14:47 downloading in "/mnt/d/gphotos/" took too long to start") and Google saying "Video is still processing & can be downloaded later". I'm getting this constantly on videos, and the downloader can't advance. These videos are from 10yrs ago, so I'm sure Google has already processed them :(

Never mind, it looks like this was caused by about 50 videos having a weird codec that caused google to never fully process them. They would play in the browser for me, but never let me download them. I ended up adding them to an album, and then downloading the whole album to get original size copies 😃