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lidio601, you are essentially correct. This does organize the photos differentl

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pimpmypixel commented on July 18, 2024

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lidio601 commented on July 18, 2024

Just discovered that you have to enable Google Drive to show Google Photos folder =S

https://support.cloudhq.net/how-to-enable-google-photos-folder-in-your-google-drive/

I can't see why I need this script then, since you can just download Google Drive client and synchronize that folder with your laptop. Any thoughts?

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gilesknap commented on July 18, 2024

lidio601, you are essentially correct. This script does organize the photos differently to google drive client, using a strict date based folder system and canonical file names. (Drive uses original file name and starts with date based folders but these can be re-arranged). I currently use the official google drive sync to backup photos on windows and it works well. I do not know how good the unofficial offerings on linux are and I originally picked up this script to provide syncing on linux.

I'm working on a fork of this project with the goal of synchronizing the photo's meta data (in particular 'description' and containing albums).

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yannrouillard commented on July 18, 2024

Yes @gilesknap is right.
Google Drive Photo Folder use original filenames which can be quite a mess.
If you use another tool to parse your collection and give you an organized view you might not care though.

However, I remember also that I had issues with pictures having exactly the same file name. Google Drive is perfectly happy with that as it discriminates file based on checksum, but that didn't play well with the filesystem.
Maybe this has been fixed since, or it was a problem with the tools I use to do synchronization under Linux.

I don't use gphotos-sync for now, so feel free to fork it.

It's sad that Google doesn't offer a proper public API for Google Photos.
You have the choice between Picasa API which is deprecated, buggy and doesn't give you access to anything from what I remember, and Google Drive API where you lack access to some metadata from what I remember.

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gilesknap commented on July 18, 2024

Agreed re Photos API. In my fork of your project I'm trying to use Drive API as much as possible and just use Picassa API for the meta data not available through Drive (album info is the only thing I really want). I have got quite far but am currently stuck looking for a means to reference between gdata IDs and Drive IDs (there is not even a checksum on the gdata side). BTW I found that the orginal gphotos-sync also had issues with images with identical time-stamps. This is quite common in my 22 year old photo collection, and more recently with burst shots. I resolved this with a light weight db file to track the drive identifiers.

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yannrouillard commented on July 18, 2024

Since I don't maintain this project anymore, I am closing all the tickets and have updated the doc to explain the state of this project.

@gilesknap I also put a reference to your project so that people can be redirected to a better solution.

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