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Why is Google takeout so bitchy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] redxef@scribe.disroot.org 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Honestly I thought you were going to bitch about them separating your metadata from the photos and you then having to remerge them with a special tool to get them to work with any other program.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

omg they WHAT

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

I'm not really looking forward to that step either

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Lmao I am both amused and horrified that I had somehow never come across this datapoint before

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

immich has a great guide to move a takeout from google into immich

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Links or it didn't happen

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! The goal is to set up immich. It's my first real foray into self hosting, and it seems close enough to feature parity with Google that the family will go for it. I ran a test with my local photos and it works great, so this is the next step.

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server

this is my setup, ofc is still and will always be working in progress