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What is a good way to sort and deduplicate about 700 GB of photos stored in Google Drive (not in Google Photos but as image files in Drive)? Can it be done incr
by yewenjie 5y ago
What is a good way to sort and deduplicate about 700 GB of photos stored in Google Drive (not in Google Photos but as image files in Drive)? Can it be done incrementally instead of downloading the entire thing?
What are the best options for deduplication and organization if I have to do it at once?
- mceachen 5y agoUnfortunately, Google doesn't support good API read access of your files: pulling them down via their API results in several bits of metadata being stripped (including GPS coordinates). (If someone knows otherwise, I'd love to be wrong!) I'd download a Google Takeout. If you need something to deduplicate your takeout, feel free to try PhotoStructure (I'm the author). https://photostructure.com/faq/takeout/ https://photostructure.com/faq/takeout/ (You'll be left with a single datestamped-based folder hierarchy: just enable "automatic organization". The folder format is customizable, too: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/how-to-change-the-naming-structure/1184/2 https://forum.photostructure.com/t/how-to-change-the-naming-... )
- vanilla_nut 5y agoI tried downloading about 200GB of data off of my university drive last night. Took a good hour or two of "zipping" on the drive site, then... hundreds of separate zips ended up dumped on my browser at some point later. And those downloads mostly failed. So now I'm taking a look at rclone to move data off of my drive, maybe slowly, through my raspberry pi.