GwynHannay / google-photos-migrate

A tool to fix EXIF data and recover filenames from a Google Photos takeout, saving files into a flat directory.

google-photos-migrate

A tool like google-photos-exif, but does some extra things:

• uses the titles from the .json file to recover previous filenames
• moves duplicates into their own folder
• tries to match files by the title in their .json file
• fixes wrong extensions, identified by ExifTool
• video files won't show up as from 1970
• works for English and German (for more langs fix this file)

Run this tool

mkdir output error

npx google-photos-migrate@latest '/path/to/takeout/Google Fotos' './output' './error' --timeout 60000

Further steps

• If you use Linux + Android, you might want to check out the scripts I used to locate duplicate media and keep the better versions in the android-dups directory.
• Use a tool like Immich and upload your photos

Supported extensions

Configured in extensions.ts:

• .jpg
• .jpeg
• .png
• .raw
• .ico
• .tiff
• .webp
• .heic
• .heif
• .gif
• .mp4
• .mov
• .qt
• .mov.qt
• .3gp
• .mp4v
• .mkv
• .wmv
• .webm