You, my friend, are AWESOME! 🤩😍

[jeromegamez]

Thank you so much for your tool! I've been "backup and store"ing my iCloud Photos to Google for quite some time now and accidentally tapped the "Free up space on your device" button - big mistake!

No problem, I'll just restore my library with a Google Takeout and reimport, but you know what comes next 😒

However, I'm not here to talk about how I messed up my photo library, I'm here to say THANK YOU for this!

If you have a Ko-FI, Buy me a coffee or Paypal, please let me know, I would like to show my appreciation with more than just words 🙌

[mattwilson1024]

@jeromegamez thanks a lot for the kind words! I'm really pleased the tool was helpful for you and I hope you've managed to get your photos sorted out.

Thanks so much also for the generous offer, but don't worry about it 🙂 I'm happy to share this particular project without making anything from it, it's rewarding to know that my code can help others avoid the same frustration I went through with my photos and I appreciate you taking the time to send the positive message.

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@mattwilson1024 I'm commenting here to avoid adding more noise to the issues tab. But totally agree with the previous comment. Now I have all my photos stored locally, this tool works like a charm. Thanks a lot!!

[DominicCorny]

You are awesome. The tool still works perfectly. Thank you !

[abbysheksaini]

Please teach me how to use it! From the very beginning (Beginner to Github).

[mattwilson1024]

Thanks everyone, glad the tool is helpful!

@abbysheksaini, the steps are:

1. Download your photos from Google via "Google Takeout". I've put instructions on how to that in the readme
2. either clone the repository or download it as a zip to a local folder ("Download Zip" button inside the green <> Code button on the main repo page)
3. Ensure you have node installed, then install dependencies using either npm install or yarn install
4. Run the tool - see readme for instructions / details on how to run it

[coss101]

Absolutely magnificent.

Amazing work. Thanks

[RabieJradi]

Brilliant tool @mattwilson1024, it just crunched through 64GB of data in a breeze and I can now easily move it away over to my own Nextcloud instance. Thank you for making it available 🙌

[sebas-alarconr]

Absolutely brilliant tool @mattwilson1024. It worked flawless on my library. Thank you very much for sharing this with the community!

[kthornbloom]

Just another satisfied customer chiming in to say THANK YOU. Gotta love these open source heros!

[chrisdavebarry]

Adding another praise. Switching from Google to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance and the takeout files are a nightmare so all my photos are unsorted for some reason. This should help a ton.

Kudos Matt.

[oregonpillow]

Just saw this issue. I was literally about to make an issue DEMANDING you accept my money. Seems like some people are too kind and won't accept donations. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! AMAZING!