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Do you know if gphotos-sync downloads the photos in their original quality/version?

• buro9 4y ago
  It does. The only thing that it gets wrong is that it cannot restore the file created date to video. But in the grand scheme of things, that's a nit.
  • exhilaration 4y ago
    Unfortunately it looks like it's subject to the same limitation of the Google Photos API: Photo download compresses the photos even if you ask for the original file https://gilesknap.github.io/gphotos-sync/main/explanations/googleapiissues.html#pending-api-issues https://gilesknap.github.io/gphotos-sync/main/explanations/g... I've been putting off a Google photos back up for years, and this was my excuse - waiting for this issue to be resolved. But I'm being a fool, 60% compression is better than losing everything.
    • buro9 4y ago
      Ah you are correct. I have just compared originals I had which were uploaded to Google Photos vs the ones downloaded. Visually there is a barely perceptible difference in a side-by-side comparison on a high quality and calibrated monitor. I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't side-by-side and zoomed in. On the file size, it's gone from a 6MB jpeg down to about a 1.5MB jpeg. On the smaller files that difference is far less, but jpegs above 3MB seem to see the biggest reduction in file size. Thankfully I have all of my originals that weren't taken on the phone camera so I don't mind this so much as running my exiftool script over the original archive produces the same naming convention and I can merge those folders and still have the originals I care about. Sheesh though... such a thing for Google to screw up on.