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2024/06/16/why-google-takeout-is-sooo-bad/ #9

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utterances-bot commented 2 weeks ago

Why Google Takeout is sooo bad! - Tech ramblings by Marcin

https://marcin.cylke.com.pl/2024/06/16/why-google-takeout-is-sooo-bad/

dannyanders commented 2 weeks ago

Google is playing the long game with Google photos and storage. they push you to back up and make you dependent on Google photos. they know inevitably you will have to subscribe to more storage.

eventually I wanted to bring everything back to my local drives but they make it extremely difficult. the only solution is we'll go take out. unfortunately you will have to get a separate paid tool that can effectively merge your photos and metadata back together.

I've switched to a Synology Nas with abundant storage. they provide mobile apps that will back up your photos.

I still use Google photos for day-to-day editing and sharing. but I don't backup to Google. I back up to technology and my local drives.

zygm0nt commented 2 weeks ago

That's a road I'm taking right now. This is just the description of the first step :)

alextran1502 commented 2 weeks ago

You can take a look at https://immich.app or the GitHub Repo at https://github.com/immich-app/immich

It is self-hosted though, so you will have to run your own server

zygm0nt commented 2 weeks ago

@alextran1502 - that looks interesting, thanks for suggesting that.