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I just finished found through the takeout process for photos last night. 39 2GB archives. Request took a couple of days to process, then I got an email with a

I just finished found through the takeout process for photos last night. 39 2GB archives. Request took a couple of days to process, then I got an email with a bunch of links that they said were good for 7 days. I planned to load them into my Synology download manager, but the takeout system seems to rely heavily on browser state, so Synology couldn't download them. Each took 5 minutes to download at home over WiFi, and the takeout interface demands authentication every 10 minutes. It also reloads the page and reset my position in the download list on every click. I've uploaded and expanded about half the archives on my Synology, and it's currently indexing everything, so I can't comment on the photo issues you've mentioned quite yet. Overall, I'm happy there exists a mechanism to get my photos, but the quality of the experience is truly awful.

mtnGoat 6y ago
Almost like they made the ux really hard to use for a reason, eh? All that engineering talent and that's the best solution? Lol.
- 101011 6y ago
  More like, they're just wanting to make sure they're legally covered. There is no added benefit for the company in making that experience better. Source: working on a product engineering team for a larger company. Why would we upheave our roadmap for something that doesn't help provide explicit value to our product offerings? We've got a list a mile long of improvements and new capabilities to deliver on, and no engineer likes working through legal hoops anyways.
  - pdimitar 6y ago
    I don't see how your statement contradicts your parent comment's. Looks like Google just did the bare minimum to cover themselves legally (as you said). But that shouldn't mean that they can't make the experience better. As for no engineer liking working through legal hoops, my observations disagree. Many absolutely don't care. Give them a well-described Jira ticket and they'll happily chip away at it for a year if it's necessary.
BoppreH 6y ago
I exported my data this week, and was given the option of either many zip files (default) or a single 7z file. I downloaded the 7z without any problems.
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mtnGoat 6y ago

Almost like they made the ux really hard to use for a reason, eh? All that engineering talent and that's the best solution? Lol.

101011 6y ago
More like, they're just wanting to make sure they're legally covered. There is no added benefit for the company in making that experience better. Source: working on a product engineering team for a larger company. Why would we upheave our roadmap for something that doesn't help provide explicit value to our product offerings? We've got a list a mile long of improvements and new capabilities to deliver on, and no engineer likes working through legal hoops anyways.
- pdimitar 6y ago
  I don't see how your statement contradicts your parent comment's. Looks like Google just did the bare minimum to cover themselves legally (as you said). But that shouldn't mean that they can't make the experience better. As for no engineer liking working through legal hoops, my observations disagree. Many absolutely don't care. Give them a well-described Jira ticket and they'll happily chip away at it for a year if it's necessary.

BoppreH 6y ago

I exported my data this week, and was given the option of either many zip files (default) or a single 7z file. I downloaded the 7z without any problems.

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