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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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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/anderbggo/GooglePhotosMatcher

I did this a couple months ago and it worked great. Just be sure to back things up.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This just embeds the meta data from the side cars right?

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

It adds the metadata back to the photos instead of storing the json and photo separately

I just reread your post and I don't think it sorts them into folders.

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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 ?

[–] AgnosticMammal@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Ooh, thanks for the reminder. I gotta take a look through my takeout files.

[–] mindlessLump@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Check out exif tool. You could also incorporate jq a command line json parser, to extract data from the json file. If you are trying to do higher level sorting/organization, you may consider using a scripting language other than bash/zsh. Guaranteed there is a Python package for reading exif data.

https://askubuntu.com/a/404632

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There’s the python image library (and a fork of it called pillow) and exif. There’s probably a bunch of others, too.

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

As I recall working with EXIF is generally a pain in the butt. In js the best you can hope for is a wrapper around some CLI based thing that I can't remember the name of right now.