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mholt / photobak

Back up your content from Google Photos - DEPRECATED: use Timeliner
https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
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Download breaks - a fraction of photos downloaded #16

Closed gosanke closed 6 years ago

gosanke commented 6 years ago

The process seems to be running fine but on 2 seperate accounts similar errors start showing up and after a while the program breaks and exits. I've tried a couple of times to re-start the process without luck - do you have any suggestions? Thanks on beforehand :) screenshot 2017-11-02 00 59 23 screenshot 2017-11-02 00 59 50 screenshot 2017-11-02 01 04 29

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mholt commented 6 years ago

Uhhh wow that's a lot of errors. How long ago were those videos uploaded? I'm not sure there's much you can do in this case. Sorry...

sundarv85 commented 6 years ago

@mholt How long can we go back? ie. does it matter when the videos are uploaded. If so, do you have a time from which we can start the backup instead of backing up everything in Google Photos.

mholt commented 6 years ago

I think the very undocumented and highly arbitrary limit in the "Picasa Web Albums API" is like 10k photos per album. Unfortunately.

The solution to this might be to put old photos in albums with a max of 10K per album. Or 1k, just to be safe and keep things manageable.

You could also use the Google Takeout service to do a one-time download of all your photos and videos, and let photobak just nab the newest ones.