Just gone through this whole process myself. My god does it suck. Another thing you'll want to be aware of around Takeout with Google Photos is that the photo metadata isn't attached as EXIF like with a normal service, but rather it's given as an accompanying JSON file for each image file. I'm using Memories for Nextcloud, and it has a tool that can restore the EXIF metadata using those files, but it's not exact and now I have about 1.5k images tagged as being from this year when they're really from 2018 or before. I'm looking at writing my own tool to restore some of this metadata but it's going to be a right pain in the ass.
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Wow thanks for that. I was looking into https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper but I haven't gotten to that step yet
Use Drive or if it's more than 15GB or whatever the max is these days. Pay for storage for one month for a couple of dollars on one of the supported platforms and download from there.
It's bad because they don't want you to use it, but they made it exist so that they don't get sued by the European Union.
Can you do one album at a time? Select the albums you want to download, then do that file. Then do the next few albums. That way you have direct control over the data you're getting in each batch, and so you'll have a week to get that batch instead of having to start again if the whole thing didn't finish in a week.
That may be a thought. I could organize the photos first and then do multiple takeouts. Thanks
I do occasional smaller "takeouts" and haven't had any issues.
I have an "automatic album" (or whatever they call it) where all the photos of friends and family (even pets) get automatically added to it. Then I can just request a "takeout" for that one album, since those are the photos I actually care about. It's a much smaller download than the entirety of my Photos account.