hey everyone this is tony futures tech
i'm tony and in this video i'm going to
show you how to download your entire
google photos collection in one shot
and we're going to do this with
something called google takeout so let's
go ahead and hop on into the tutorial
here
as you can see i am on my google photos
page
looking at my albums and what you could
do is individually go through these
albums and download them
uh one by one or you can come back to
your photos section
and highlight them all and download them
that way it'll zip them up into a big
archive file and then you would download
it through the browser that way
but the best way to do this to make sure
you get every single photo
even if you don't have them organized
into albums is with google takeout like
i said so
how do we do that let's go to your
a new tab here and go to
takeout.google.com
hit enter and this is where you can
pretty much not only google photos but
pretty much
any service that you use with google you
can
download that data in the in some type
of format right so
uh google chrome data google calendar
data you can keep going
going down here google drive data but
what we're looking for
is google photos data okay so uh there's
a check box by
default on all of these we're only
interested in google photos so let's
deselect all those check boxes
and then come back down to google photos
and we will check
that box only now there are multiple
formats
that are going to be downloaded you will
get your photos your actual photos and
the resolution that you
chose when you uploaded them you get
your video same type of thing
you'll also get your album and metadata
if you have albums it'll
give you stuff like it says here such as
the title or description of the album
and then photo metadata same type of
thing when the photo was taken
and any comments that anybody made
within google photos so
you're going to get all of that data in
one single
archive so that's just an overview of
what that looks like
i'm going to click on all photo albums
included that's the default
for this case because this is i have
i probably have 500 gigabytes of photos
or probably even more than that
i'm not going to do that in this
tutorial but you can by default
everything is selected
i'm just going to pick a few of these so
i'm going to pick
the album from my 50 days abroad and the
album
from when i sold my buick
suv car uh just the pictures associated
with that
now down below there are also
if you don't have albums like i was
saying there are also uh
pre albums i should say
that google creates for you so by year
so
every picture that you took in 2019 2020
2021
so right if you don't have your stuff
organized in albums that's how you would
get every single photo on your account
so with when you're satisfied with your
selection you can click on ok
it's going to take to this next page
actually it's not
we have to go down to the bottom and
then click on next step and that'll take
it to the next page
which it says how often do you want to
export these
files and we're just going to do a
one-time export you could schedule that
for
you know every two months six months and
something like that
um but we're just going to do this once
and done and then the file type is going
to be you can pick
zip or tgz uh zip is most compatible
with
pretty much any operating system and
then uh based on how much data you're
selecting you can have each archive in
in its own uh file
up to two gigabytes in size four
gigabytes all the way up to 50 gigabytes
so
i'm pretty sure all my data for those
albums is under two gigabytes
but if you have problems downloading
large files
and you know your data is over two
gigabytes then you might want to
stick with something smaller like this
and then you'll just get multiple
two gigabyte archives uh so this for
this case we'll just keep the defaults
here
and then like it says up here it'll send
me a download link via email when my
files are ready so
click on create export and this does
take
some amount of time depending on how
much the data is so we'll just
fast forward through this and i'll catch
up with you when that's ready to
download
okay guys i'm back just about two
minutes later and as you can see google
emailed you right after you requested
the data it said archive of google data
requested
for this email address um the next email
that was at
9 48 a.m the next one was just two
minutes later
and it says uh your account your data
your google photos are ready to download
so let's go ahead and download those
files
and that's going to take us to the
downloads section
after i sign in here and here you can
see this first one right here google
photos the size is 1.58 gigabytes has
already started downloading here
and this is the data that we requested
google photos so that's going to take
just about
six minutes here so we will also fast
forward through that all right we have
about
one second left and that archive has
been downloaded so
let's uh let's actually put this on the
desktop i'm going to drag this onto the
desktop
and then we can extract it okay so just
double click on a mac
uh or right click on windows and extract
it and now we have all of our photos in
here so
open this up this is a folder uh
technically all of our photos are in
this directory but let's look at this
archive
html file that's going to open up in a
browser and it says
we'll make this a little bit bigger we
have 508 files totaling 1.58 gigabytes
okay
and the exported files
we have our two albums our 50 days
abroad album in our buick rendezvous
album
which contains these photos which are
linked here
but i think a better way to look at
these are in the
explorer here and then the file formats
this is kind of what we looked at
earlier
about the photos videos album metadata
and photo metadata so let's go ahead and
take a look at what that actually looks
like let's open up this folder
and we have our two albums in here 50
days abroad buick rendezvous
let's look at the 50 days abroad um
you'll see
here is uh all of our pictures so here's
a picture
uh me on the plane uh outside of the
plane
um barcelona airport what else we got
down here
this is in mumbai this
is in goa so i have all of my pictures
and then you'll see
that we also have these json files right
so
let me see um let me find one that i
kind of know this
this is in udapore but if you look at
the
associated or where is the associated
this one the json file for that picture
you'll see that it's a little bit weird
format right but this is the name
of the file right the um
timestamp that it was created okay
right here and then there's the readable
format for that this is the
gps data the latitude and longitude that
that photo was taken
the altitude okay all this other
information
and then the original url on google
photos where that was located
and it was taken with an android phone
so that that's the type of
metadata that we're talking about here
and one of these is actually the album
metadata 2.
so let me see if i can find that uh we
only want to look at the
json files it's probably that's a no
that's a smaller one
um this one maybe no that's for the
video
oh here it is metadata.json so this is
this is all the metadata for the album
the 50 days abroad
album so we have
all of the descriptions for the the
individual
items so this is a varanasi
and you can match these up to the actual
album itself and we can we can do that
here's here's the actual album over here
so we have
50 days abroad uh which is right here
and uh near the end i was at the taj
mahal
so let's see if we can find that down
here
oh and these are these are comments so
somebody said i like it thanks
somebody said you're welcome thought
maps would help
that was actually me um
i didn't know you were in iceland and
lol to the monkey's own car so that's
the comments of these albums which you
can see
right here those are those comments
and then there yeah there's rajasthan
there's pennsylvania my trip back to
pennsylvania
there's delhi so so very very cool
that's that's how that metadata matches
up
there's a lot of other things that you
can do with google takeout like i said
if you're interested in learning about
those check out some of these videos
over here
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