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With Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.
by marwis 5y ago
With Google Photos you can't download uncompressed/original files and exif location tags are always stripped.
- aix1 5y agoThis was surprising, so I just downloaded one of my photos from Google Photos[*] as a test. The downloaded JPEG absolutely has EXIF location metadata. [*] by pressing Shift+D
- leephillips 5y agoYikes. So it’s just, what—some kind of sharing site? That makes it useless for backup.
- aix1 5y agoI don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.
- leephillips 5y agoThat’s good, but the part about losing access to the original files, if true, is a deal-breaker.
- marwis 5y agoIn theory you can download them all via Takeout but that tends to stop working for huge image libraries. Seems like the only way might be via web scraping.
- aix1 5y agoI'm not certain that's true either (if "Original Quality" is turned on[1]) but haven't tested it. That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline. [1] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791 https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
- marwis 5y agoSorry, I should've mentioned this problem applies to images downloaded via API
- myko 5y ago> uncompressed/original files Even with the paid plan? I'm pretty sure I selected an "originals" option in Google Photos - do they not actually use the originals?