Thank you! It’s crazy to me that there is not a simple “download all” on Google Photos.

Thank you ! It can be frustrating as hell trying to get a "quick" answer to a situation on the internet. Guys like you really are a blessing! Thanks again!

Never seen more complicated process to simply download your photos. Thanks for sharing.

I watched a lot of videos, and I must say you are the one who is giving usable value here. Cool Work!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just found your channel and have been banging my head against the wall for years trying to figure out how download my Google photos. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

YOU ARE THE BEST. I can't believe how google basically holds YOUR property hostage. I am going to check out more of your tutorials and thanks again. I was a little worried being so old of a video it may not work. thanks again, and again.

Thanks for the upload, but a WARNING to everyone who plans to do this to move your google photos to iphotos. NONE of the meta data is in the photo. This means that all the dates and stuff where you can nicely sort by in google photos is not there when you import your photos into iphotos. The data is there in the json, but most people dont have time to manually search and edit 30000 photos.

Thank you so much! Saving me lots of time and energy. Also, lovely format you created here on YT. Looking forward to following around.

Hello Mr.Tony! Thanks for the video Just a little question, would ALL the photos be included in the Takeout? Nothing would be missed or converted into other forms right?

thank you so much u help me to sort out my problem for how many times I been searching I've got watch ur video and u amazed me I know this video was 1 yr ago but absolutely u help me to find my solution on how to transfer those photos from google... thank you and I like it so much how u explain and visualize on that video....God bless you.

Thank you! This is definitely much easier than forums claim. Google should make this an option in the Google photo app

Thank you! This was the fourth video I tried. It should definitely be the first.

Question: do you cover downloading TO an external drive? Are these downloads auto directed to the desktop "download" file? I don't want my photos on my primary drive. I already KNOW they take up a lot of space. Thanks.

Thanx for video! Did the same way, but just realized that not all the photos have meta date (json), why so? And those pics were made at the same date, at the same time. Some of them have json format and another no

Oh wow what a nice quality! I'm able to zoom in from my phone and see everything so clear! 👍

Thank you so much! Very informative!

Any suggestions on a workflow to download a dozen years of Google Photos (over 50GB) and retiring the files in a usable format? I want to retain all of the metadata too (original dates etc).

I really appreciate it. Its almost as if they dont want us to figure out how to retrieve our photos. Im buying a ssd tmr and just downloading my albums from now on. To hell with the subscription service for 200 gb.

You're a hero! Thank you for this!

Is there a way/setting you can click on where Google also organizes your pictures by month also?

Thank you so much for making this wonderful video for us. This video will be useful for those who are struggling to manage their storage👏👏

Do you know any good hdd /ssd drives that save LIVE photos along with the meta data like google photos does?

Thank you for sharing this information. Is there a way to also download shared albums? I have some albums from people that have shared with me and that album does not appear in the download option. thank you.

I just want to save my google photo pictures on my hard disk..i download the bulk data with google take out. Can i just delete the json file? Is there any risk to lost photos by removing json file? Or are they just metadata "trash" which can be removed without problem?

Excellent Tony. very nicely explained. I just want to download and clean my drive. After downloading as you explained, should I keep those JSON files or can I delete if I don't need meta data

Question please I have memories of photos and videos on an old device, so I backed them up using Google Photos, and I made a factory reset for the old device and left it, and I registered my account on the new device and Google Photos, but after I registered my account on the new device, these photos can I see them in the internal storage of my device, or are they in the account In-app only Do you mean that it is only stored in the company's servers??

Thank you so much. My mom passed 2 days ago and I've been searching for a way to get all her photos to family.

Maybe a silly questions, but do I HAVE to download the json files as well, or can I just get the jpg / images?

Thank you! I would have never guessed that Google needed to have a separate program to manage its own content.

I liked. You saved the Day.

very usable video, direct to the point. thanks buddy

Would this work if you were a person who unknowingly pressed free up space and wanted it back on the device?

How do you upload the albums fully intact with layouts and comments to another google account? For example, if you are fully closing down and deleting one google account and want to save your albums in another.

I had to buy a new phone recently. My photos are in Google photos on my new phone. I want to move them to my phone photos and create albums like I had on my old phone. I did something and downloaded them in the files folder. Do I need to turn Google photos off? I'm stumped!

After extracting all photos/videos to my phone from the Google takeout zip folder, can we delete all json files?

Thanks !!! Great video Direct and simple

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!

Much appreciated.

When i finally downloaded them some of my photos weren't downloadable, i don't know whats causing it

Thank you for sharing, but Can I delete the photos from Google photos after I download them in my computer? Because my Google is full, and I’m not receiving any emails anymore

Thanks, Tony. I completed the first step. I'm now waiting for the zip file to copy to the hard drive. I trust all goes well.

Will we have to delete the files after receiving the zip file or do they automatically delete them?

Hi Tony - you did a fantastic job of teaching us how to download the photos from our Google Drive, but you neglected to show us how to actually remove the Google photos from the drive to make more room. When viewing the photos in the Google Drive, they are not organized like they are when you download them. Any help with this?

dude, you saved my ass. thank you tony!

And how to reuse that downloaded zip files into some offline software that searchable or presentable .. ?

Thanks great help.

how long did it take to export photos?

The shared album on my iPhone didn’t download to google photos when I first started this app

thank you!

Thank you My question is I am trying to avoid putting 6,000 photos on my new phone and I thought the only way is to put all the photos on a memory card but I think you are saying in this video that if I export them with Google and download all my photos to Google take out then it won't take up a lot of storage on my new phone and I still will have access to each photo on my new phone without transferring them to the new phone. But I believe I can only use the memory card in a tablet or computer not my new phone.

How do you plan on adding the metadata back to the photos? I'm facing this problem.

Anyone else having an issue of the photo being backed up[ in a much smaller format, resulting in a crappy download? Like original pic is 9.1MB but backed up 1.7MB. And i do not have storage saver on, i have original quality for upload. Thanks

Thank you! I'd like to structure them all - by the date they were made with metadata - on my computer, but even with this download as you say, the date sorts itself to today... Why is that and how could that be solved? Thank you and have a great day!

Is there a way to download from android phone to usbc thumbstick.

really amazing man ... Thank you so much :)

THANK YOU!!!

Thank you!

Thank you for the video it was very helpful! is there an easy way to combine the JSON files into the pictures? or all the mata data is already in the picture as well?

Thank you so much for sharing this easy to use steps. Is there any automated way to update the metadata of downloaded jpg files with the actual data; to replace the data/time of the actual download? It will be great to find a tool that can process 1000s of pictures automatically.

Thank you I have Google photos with 27 GB .. how long will it take to download

I have 300 gb worth photos, this will help me a lot!

Why do I need jason files? Can I delete them?

If i wanted to import the photos into another gmail account, can I just upload the photos and not the JSON? Will it keep the metadata if I just upload the photos? And thanks for the video!

Thanks a lot !!!

THANK YOU. ARE YOU THEN ABLE TO PUT ON A EHD ??

What do you do, Tony, if you don't get the email? Thanks for any advise you can give me...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Thanks! saved me hours of single clicking photos

Will that remove the data from Google photos. Because it says export, take out or archive and no where it says download. 😢

Do I just download the photos with the .json files into my phone?

Very useful, thanks

I downloaded zip and it contains over 3k photos, I opened and it only shows me .json files for all of them on my mac. What can i do?

I am confused about how to reconnect the metadata to the photo? I want to keep all the metadata attached to the photo without a json file so i can re-download it to my phone and upload it to my NAS and view and be able to search by metadata.

Thanks for this! My 2TB is full and next size they have is 5TB but the price is gonna kill me... So I'm ordering a Samsung 4TB SSD and will be clearing up my Google photos (lots of videos for my business and many personal pictures)... Then I'll just start over with the 2TB.

I did all the steps. But when actually downloading and adding to a file folder they all say "unconfirmed". The file type is not supported to downloand on a chrome OS computer. What do i do? I am trying to download them straight to the hard drive, not the computer & im still getting the same message

Thank you brother !!!

Great work. And, maybe it's just me, but, why do I need another app, to efficiently export my library of images? Why isn't that a feature within 'Photos'? Certainly a 'deliberate absence' - why?

all the love ♥♥♥ thanks

can we delete photos from Google photos after receiving the mail?

Do we need to make albums ? Or can we download everything by default ?

thanks sir

Your instructions were very clear and easy to follow. It did take me more than a day to download all of my files but I know I have them safely on my 1 TB USB drive thank you

Thank you very helpful video. Of course, Google doesn't wanna be helpful it just wants to sell us more storage.

Thank you 👍🏻

Thanks

Hi, how can I download my photos with the original date? Recently, each time I download a group of photos all the photos have suddenly the download date and the original date is lost. I din't have this issue before and I really don't know how it happened.

can I do it directly to my phone?

How do usually it takes to download like 13 GB?

08:07 thanks for coming to India how was the experience can you tell us our cons please

Do you have a video on how to setup OpenVPN with raspberry pi?

Můžu se zeptat jak vypnout to ze kdyz v google fotkách odstraním jednu fotku tak se mi odstraní i v normální galerii. Dekuji za odpověď

I tried it before seeing your video and panicked. When I saw all the json files I thought they were unreadable photos that were lost forever. Therefore, you helped this grandma a lot. My question is, can I delete the json files on my hard drive to save space or are they needed.

What about all the photos that aren't in albums?

Mine has no option to manage format. Therefore, my datas are downloaded for the date I downloaded it, not its original date. Can someone lend a help for me?

Warning: tried this and only 50% of my downloaded photo's got transfered correctly (other half only had a JSON file).

How do you delete only the photos and videos that were downloaded?

Thank you Like!

How to save files from google photos to pc because i will save it to my hard drive please help me now

thank you

Did you say 500 GB? That's a lot compared to my pitiful 15 GB, I go through my photos and delete what I don't need at least once a year, I don't save photos I don't need unless it's of my kids or family because honestly who is going to look at thousands and thousands of our photos once we die? Possibly a relative but I doubt they would have the patience to go through all of them, especially if it was like 200,000 photos. Reminds me of the people who used to put their favorite photos in a photo album and it took 30 minutes to flip through the big ass thing but now it's like we have so many photos anymore that it's almost overwhelming to have to go through all of them.