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Unfortunately, at least in my experience with several different accounts, the Takeout metadata is mostly deleted, and sometimes outright changed, from the origi
by mceachen 7y ago
Unfortunately, at least in my experience with several different accounts, the Takeout metadata is mostly deleted, and sometimes outright changed, from the original files. I try to infer, interpolate, and recover what I safely can during PhotoStructure imports of Takeout archives, but mostly it made me want to dig deeper into my storage closet to try to find the hard drives that had the actual, original files on them.
- iudqnolq 7y ago> the Takeout metadata is mostly deleted, and sometimes outright changed, from the original files. Are you talking about the inferred bit from other sources like phone location history? My experience may have been different because I paid Google for extra storage so that I could store the original versions of all my photos (For those that don't use Google Photos, Google offers "unlimited" lossily compressed photo storage but counts original quality photos against your drive quota.) The json data is what they display in the UI, not a verbatim copy of the metadata, but the photos have the original metadata embedded in them.
- mceachen 7y agoAt least for my Google Pixel, my "original quality" files from Takeout do not match the SHA of the original files pulled from the device. They kept the pixels, but they mucked with the EXIF headers. I'm happy if your files weren't put through a blender!