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For those of you wanting a way to get your photos out of Google, I recommend https://takeout.google.com

I used it last week to migrate my Google photos to Nextcloud, it was pretty painless.



Word of caution - if you use Google Drive it will happily quickly dump as much as 200 GiB in your drive. if you don't have enough space, you get an incomplete download and five other Google services complaining you've run out of space.


Mine is 350+. I dumped it on a HDD and forgot about it, came back the next day and it wasn't done. For some reason I was being throttled, I restarted the download and it was fast again. They sure do have a lot of data on me :(


I used https://www.raidrive.com/ which lets you mount Google Photos as a (read-only) drive in Windows.


Nextcloud now has an app to migrate your Google data (files, photos, calendars and contacts) straight away.




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