#Download google photos takeout archive archive
If you want, you can also directly save the archive to Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, which is kind of nice. It does take a while longer for a TGZ or TBZ archive to complete, but you’re only talking about a few hours here and there.īy default, you’ll get an email with a link to download the files once the archive has been created.
In my case, that’s only 11 links rather than 225, which is way more convenient. If you choose any of the other formats, the limit for a single files goes up to 50 GB. It should be noted that using the ZIP method will be a lot faster because it only has to create 2 GB files, which it can do quickly. You won’t be able to open this using Windows, but you can download a free program like 7-Zip to open the archives. Stephan Micklitz, Director of Engineering on Googles Privacy and Security team: Google Takeout allows you, for example, to download photos, contacts, emails. Uncheck the boxes next to any services you don’t want to include in your download. Be prepared for a long list Google knows a lot about you. Luckily, you can choose other formats like TGZ and TBZ. Step 1: Select the data you want to download When you navigate to Google Takeout, you’ll see a list of all the Google services that have collected and stored data on you.
In my case, I have 550 GB of photos and videos, so I certainly don’t want to have to click on 225 download links. This is kind of annoying if you have hundreds of GBs of data stored in the cloud. Jack Wallen walks you through the process.
If you use ZIP, anything over 2 GB will be split into multiple ZIP files. If you've ever had the need to download an archive of data from your Google Account, Takeout has you covered. (Strongly recommended) Back up your photos somewhere else. not the images and videos) Give you an option to delete the archives after to reclaim some hard drive space. On the next screen, you have to choose the format you want to use for the archive. The script will: Find all of the takeout archives in this directory.
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