How do I start?

[migben01]

Hey Matt

I believe your tool can help me but I have no coding knowledge so I´m a bit lost here. I did the Google Takeout and 10 % ( around 13K photos ) of my photos have no metadata or a Json file in a different folder. How do i use this script? I am on a mac. Does anyone know how I can get this tool up and running? Do I use terminal? Thanks?

[esoterik-dev]

If there are JSON files in different folder, all of the media and json have to be moved into a single folder. You can either do it manually or use a script like https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

And to use this script, you will need to have node & yarn installed.

• Install node from here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
• Check if the installation is successful by running node -v

  $ node -v
  v20.6.0

• Installl yarn

  $ npm install --global yarn
  $ yarn --version
  v1.22.19

• Clone the repo & install dependencies

  $ git clone https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif
  $ cd google-photos-exif
  $ yarn

Then you can follow the instructions from Quick Start

[guba91]

this should be in the wiki :)