> If you use Google takeout to export your photos you get a lossy version of the original. I'm fairly sure that, unless something has changed recently, this is

> If you use Google takeout to export your photos you get a lossy version of the original. I'm fairly sure that, unless something has changed recently, this is incorrect. Last year I went through the process of figuring out how to re-create my photos from a takeout archive. It is frustrating to a level that is almost cruel - mangled/truncated filenames, arbitrarily stripped metadata, unnecessarily ambiguous naming - but the photos themselves always seemed to be original quality. I've recently started using the filters and tools that come with a Google One subscription and I suspect that they're not fully compatible with whatever the storage schema is that takeout is exposing. The relationship between an original image and one edited uaing the filters seems to get lost. I need to dig into this before my next semi-annual photo exfiltration is due. Actually, I just need to stop using google photos...