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NicholasDawson / ArchiverForGooglePhotos

A tool to maintain an archive/mirror of your Google Photos library for backup purposes.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Download loses exif data and considerable size #20

Closed blacktav closed 2 years ago

blacktav commented 2 years ago

Image files downloaded from a Shared album

  1. file are severely compressed eg 2M instead of 8M
  2. EXIFdata - specifically GPS data - has been removed

The same file downloaded through the web has all data intact

Why is this? Can it be easily avoided?

blacktav commented 2 years ago

Ah, it might be that the API is doing this - and Google of no intention of fixing that.

NicholasDawson commented 2 years ago

Yes, after research, this is a limitation of the API.