I wrote a finder 'smart folder' to filter out any '.mov' files that are under 10mb and have a duration less than 4 seconds. Yes it is time consuming on the front-end, but it saves me lots of backend processing.įinally, once on my Mac. You can then download the albums one by one. Once you have the whole year selected make an album. For me about 4 flicks of my mouse scroll wheel was a good rule of thumb for how many I can shift-select at a time.

just scroll back up till it lets you add to the selection then keep continuing. Keep doing this till you have the whole year selected. Don't try to select the whole year at once, it won't let you.Īs you scroll down, every 300-500 pics or so, while holding down 'shift' select the next bunch. Then begin scrolling backwards through time towards the first day of that year. Best of all, the file creation dates are adjusted based on the metadata so no having to mess with exiftool to try to parse the JSON files.įind the last day of a year in Google Photos Once I've created the album, I can download the whole album via the UI, and it creates a single zip with all the photos. I figured out that I can use a special technique to select all the photos from a single year and put them into an album. but you can't download more than 500 photos at a time.till I found the workaround: I decided to try to download my photos directly via the UI. You end up will a million little folders which makes it unwieldy to use with other services. Not only does the archive size get artificially blown up, but there are some other problems with takeout.Īny albums you have result in an album folder in the archive with a duplicate file of the original.resulting in massive archive sizes.Īny photo you changed the metadata on (like the date) has this metadata in a Json file rather than the exif data modified. I've used Google Takeout, but the resulting file structure is a mess. Lately, I've been trying to get a reliable backup of my Google Photos so I can move to iCloud or just plain have a decent offline backup.

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