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Why is Google takeout so bitchy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry but I can't think of another word for it right now. This is mostly just venting but also if anyone has a better way to do it I wouldn't hate to hear it.

I'm trying to set up a home server for all of our family photos. We're on our way to de-googling, and part of the impetus for the change is that our Google Drive is almost full.We have a few hundred gigs of photos between us. The problem with trying to download your data from Google is that it will only allow you to do so in a reasonable way through Google takeout. First you have to order it. Then you have to wait anywhere from a few hours to a day or two for Google to "prepare" the download. Then you have one week before the takeout "expires." That's one week to the minute from the time of the initial request.

I don't have some kind of fancy California internet, I just have normal home internet and there is just no way to download a 50gig (or 2 gig) file in one go - there are always intrruptions that require restarting the download. But if you try to download the files too many times, Google will give you another error and you have to start over and request a new takeout. Google doesn't let you download the entire archive either, you have to select each file part individually.

I can't tell you how many weeks it's been that I've tried to download all of the files before they expire, or google gives me another error.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Not really helping you here. But when I started using Google Photos, I still manually downloaded files from my phone to local storage. I did this mainly to ensure I have the original copies of my photos and not some compressed image. Turns out that was a wise move as exporting photos from Google is a pretty damned awful experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Im surprised that feature exist tbh. It worked fine for my 20GB splited into 2GB archives if I remember correctly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I used it for my music collection not that long ago and had no issues. The family's photo library is an order of magnitude larger, so is putting me up against some of the limitations I didn't run into before

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

A 50GB download takes less than 12h on a 10Mbps internet. And I had a 10Mbps link 10 years ago in a third world country, so maybe check your options with your ISP. 50GB really should not be a problem nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It sucked when I closed my accounts years ago. I had to do it manually for the most part.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 5 months ago

You need a solid wired connection. Maybe phone a friend for help.

Alternatively you could use curl. I think it as a resume option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Find a way to borrow more bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

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