<div dir='auto'>There should be EXIF metadata in each photo which should include the date taken.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Should.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Mark</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 21, 2022 1:27 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Recently got a message (well really quite a few) warning me that my <br>
"free storage" on google is running out.  This, of course, is yet a new <br>
way for Google to monetize all the free stuff that they had been <br>
providing for a while.  I do have strong opinions on re-negging on <br>
promises, but lets not go there.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Google apparently provides a way to extract your data, more or less.  <br>
You can export your data using "Google Takeout".  So I wanted to takeout <br>
my photos, since it seemed they were the dominant storage hog.  I <br>
exported my photos, and got 8 2GB zip files.  Google touched the files <br>
and they all have today's date. This stinks because I usually sort on <br>
date.  For some of the photos, the date is embedded in the file name.  <br>
For the earlier ones, the camera manufacturer didn't do that.  (Takeout <br>
only exports the data, it does not delete it.)  In the export, it seems <br>
there are json files for every jpg downloaded.  Seems like a lot of <br>
clutter, what use are these json files?  Apparently they had some value <br>
to Google, because they made them.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is there some way to extract the photos from google with the dates intact?</p>
<p dir="ltr">If not, can the files be parsed for their date taken and the attribute <br>
date reset to the taken date?  Say one were to do this in python, it <br>
seems one could do this with PIL, and os.walk through the directories.  <br>
Not quite as sure about resetting the date attribute, but pretty sure it <br>
can be done.  Seems like it could be an interesting exercise.  (Suppose <br>
one could also extract the GPS info if available and further categorize <br>
the photos.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are there any pitfalls to the the paragraph above?  Can any of you <br>
suggest a better way to do this?<br></p>
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