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gilesknap / gphotos-sync

Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API
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Downloading Photos and Videos in Original Quality #303

Closed snowmaker56 closed 3 years ago

snowmaker56 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I just tried this nice piece of software. I installed the docker image und performed a backup. But the photos and videos are just in "high quality" instead of "original quality". For example a downloaded photo is about 2MB while the original file in Google Photos is about 11MB. My usecase for this software would be to create a real backup of my photos and videos on my storage.

alerque commented 3 years ago

This is mentioned in #119 along with a bevy of other bugs that boil down to Google Photos API issues. This particular one is tracked upstream here.

gilesknap commented 3 years ago

@snowmaker56 yes unfortunately @alerque is correct. The Google API is crooked in this respect and cannot give you a true backup.

I've had several bugs open with them for a couple of years now. So have given up on them fixing them. I've come to believe the limitations are deliberate and there to create lock in to Google's service.