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Organise Google Takeout Files (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 8 months ago by fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I downloaded all my photos with google takeout.

The folder structure is an absolute mess.

It would be nice to organise them into YYYY/MM folders but I haven't been able to think of an easy way to do that.

I note that all images seem to have sidecar files ? Like matching json files. I've never encountered these before and not really aware of any command line tools that support them. It's just another challenge as regards writing a script to re-organise files.

Any insights much appreciated.

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[-] macattack@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm transitioning to self-hosting via Immich and someone created an importer called immich-go that allows you to bulk upload your takeout files w/ the Google Photos feel (complete w/ previously created albums, tags, etc).

There's an additional step if you exported via .tar files but it's pretty straightforward ime.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

If I understand you correctly this would only really be helpful if I was using immich, correct ?

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