Is there a decent file attribute (date) conserving way to download your photos from Google?

[Bruce Labitt]

Thank you.  The links are very helpful.  I will check them all out.
Think I have enough info to make a valiant attempt at sorting this all out.

Bruce

On 6/22/22 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> Summary: The JSON files contain ALL the metadata from EXIF info for 
> each photo. You need to merge the JSON info back into the JPG files. 
> There is a (purportedly) very good tool for doing that. I have not 
> used the tool myself.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Here are supporting links:
>
>   * Article on /How to Export Your Images From Google Photos Using
>     Takeout/
>     https://metadatafixer.com/learn/how-to-export-images-google-photos-takeout
>   * The tool (EXIFTool) itself: https://exiftool.org/
>   * Apple forum on the topic, with instructions:
>     https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253234040
>   * EXIFTool forum with instructions for Google Takeout json files:
>     https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=11064.0
>
>
> On 2022-06-21 13:41, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>> There should be EXIF metadata in each photo which should include the date taken.
>>
>> Should.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2022 1:27 PM, Bruce Labitt<bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net>  wrote:
>>
>>      Recently got a message (well really quite a few) warning me that my
>>      "free storage" on google is running out.  This, of course, is yet a new
>>      way for Google to monetize all the free stuff that they had been
>>      providing for a while.  I do have strong opinions on re-negging on
>>      promises, but lets not go there.
>>
>>      Google apparently provides a way to extract your data, more or less.
>>      You can export your data using "Google Takeout".  So I wanted to takeout
>>      my photos, since it seemed they were the dominant storage hog.  I
>>      exported my photos, and got 8 2GB zip files.  Google touched the files
>>      and they all have today's date. This stinks because I usually sort on
>>      date.  For some of the photos, the date is embedded in the file name.
>>      For the earlier ones, the camera manufacturer didn't do that.  (Takeout
>>      only exports the data, it does not delete it.)  In the export, it seems
>>      there are json files for every jpg downloaded.  Seems like a lot of
>>      clutter, what use are these json files?  Apparently they had some value
>>      to Google, because they made them.
>>
>>      Is there some way to extract the photos from google with the dates intact?
>>
>>      If not, can the files be parsed for their date taken and the attribute
>>      date reset to the taken date?  Say one were to do this in python, it
>>      seems one could do this with PIL, and os.walk through the directories.
>>      Not quite as sure about resetting the date attribute, but pretty sure it
>>      can be done.  Seems like it could be an interesting exercise.  (Suppose
>>      one could also extract the GPS info if available and further categorize
>>      the photos.)
>>
>>      Are there any pitfalls to the the paragraph above?  Can any of you
>>      suggest a better way to do this?
>>
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