they were shared with me or imported into the library by other means, and the source did not include a timestamp in the EXIF metadata) My guess is that these images originated from other sources (e.g. Whilst most of my images contained reasonable EXIF timestamps for the time they were taken (written by the phone's camera), a small number did not.Instead, Google's metadata comes out in the accompanying JSON files. EXIF / IPTC) in the image files is not updated if changes are made within Google Photos, for example if the dates are updated using the Google Photos UI. From what I can tell, the embedded metadata (e.g.For an image named IMG123.jpg, sometimes you get but sometimes it's just IMG123.json The naming convention for the JSON files seems inconsistent and has some interesting edge cases.In the case that the export was split across multiple zips, I'm not sure whether there is any guarantee that the images & JSON files will always be co-located within the same export The date based folders don't always contain perfect pairs of images and JSON files, sometimes you get JSON files without a corresponding image.The JSON sidecar files include, amongst other things, a useful photoTakenTime property. These folders contain a mixture of image files and JSON metadata files.
#Photos takeout zip
populate the DateTimeOriginal field in the EXIF metadata if this field is not already setĪt the time of writing (December 2020), Google Takeout provides you with one or more zip files.Įxtracting the zip, you might find something similar to this:.set a meaningful modification date on the file itself.This tool aims to eliminate some of those issues by reading the photoTakenTime timestamp from the JSON metadata files that are included in Google Takeout export and using it to:
Whilst it is great that I was able to use Google Takeout to extract all of my stored images from Google Photos at once, I found that some images were landing in the wrong place due to missing DateTimeOriginal EXIF timestamps. Silent Sifter provides a fast way to organise images into folders based on the timestamps embedded in the image metadata or failing that, the file modification timestamps.
This library would be organised into a date-based folder structure, with images being automatically moved into the correct structure using Silent Sifter. My goal was to extract all photos from my Google Photos account and incorporate them into a master photo library on my Mac. I wrote this tool to help me overcome some issues that I had when trying to make use of photos exported from Google Photos using Google Takeout.
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