<h1 id="google-photos-takeout-helper">Google Photos Takeout Helper<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#google-photos-takeout-helper"></a></h1>
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<li>Get all your photos in <a href="https://takeout.google.com/">Google Takeout</a> (select only Google Photos)</li>
<li><code>pip install -U google-photos-takeout-helper</code></li>
<li>Extract all contents from your Google Takeout to one folder</li>
<li>Run <code>google-photos-takeout-helper -i [INPUT TAKEOUT FOLDER] -o [OUTPUT FOLDER]</code></li>
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<p>If you want your photos to be divided by a year and month, run it with <code>--divide-to-dates</code> flag.</p>
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<h2 id="action-réalisées">Action réalisées<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#action-réalisées"></a></h2>
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<li>Files copied to target folder</li>
<li>Removed duplicates</li>
<li>Listing files for which we couldn't find json</li>
<li>Listing Files where inserting new exif failed (This is not necessary bad thing - pretty much all videos fail, and your photos probably have their original exif already</li>
<li>Listing files where date was set from name of the folder</li>
<li>Listing files where there was absolutely no way to set a correct date! They will probably appear at the top of the others, as their 'last modified' value is set to moment of downloading your takeout :/</li>
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<h2 id="fichier-de-log-fournis">Fichier de log fournis<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fichier-de-log-fournis"></a></h2>
<p>Fournis plusieurs fichiers:</p>
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<li>fichier de log d'execution</li>
<li>no_json_found.txt</li>
<li>failed_inserting_exif.txt</li>
<li>... folder_date ... ???</li>
<li>unsorted.txt</li>
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<strong>Children</strong>
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<li><a href="/notes/HAblhyb6YFju2MQuaFFPO">Readme</a></li>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/notes/1419c784-32f5-49f2-9dfc-36f988657506">2021-06-05</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/42825a5f-b270-46f1-bf8f-5647436b5c2a">2021-06-06</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/f8394d0e-0012-4b62-8756-39aa34d21ff1">2021-06-30</a></li>
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Google Photos Takeout Helper


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