Hi
I have a 2Tb of photos to download from Google Photos and the recommended method to create a zip file (Google Takeout) doesnt work efficiently.
My local c: is too small to sync.
Is there an app or method to sync with an external drive attached to the pc to download all photos?
I dont want to sync to another cloud.
Thanks
Why can't you use Google take out
Use jdownloader or similar
To add to this, if you can't download it as 1 big zip file (can't recall what Google limits it too), you should download them all, then carefully unzip them all to the same unzipped folder.
Google doesn't provide the smarts with the zip files so they aren't linked.
Do it in blocks. Do a month or year at a time. If you try and do it all in one wack and you download a 2Tb file and it corrupts, you are back to downloading the same thing again. Then there is the unzipping it. You are going to need maybe at least 5Tb worth of space, one for the zip file and the other half for the unzipped files.
first thing i would be doing is actually trying to cull some of the photos. At the start of each month, i filter for all photos taken in May (for example) and then delete all the rubbish ones
My local c: is too small to sync.
you can change your PC's GDrive cache location in settings. I don't keep anything on C drive
I don't think it even matters as GDrive is mounted as a remote drive anyway, you should be able to copy direct from GDrive to external HDD
Torrent download anyone? O^O
I think the least worst option is likely to be Google Takeout.
Notwithstanding tech literacy, there might be some Chrome extensions that claim to do the thing you want but I'm not sure I'd trust them. Again, some scripts on github but, again trust.
Buy an external drive, google takeout, put the kettle on.