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Hi Friends,

In this video, let's use “Google Takeout'' to download all of our Google Photos and address the problems associated with the metadata of the download file. Such as incorrect created date. which makes it very difficult to search for our favorite photos of any given date on our PC. Lets get it fixed by using the JSON file downloaded along with the photo.

After we Log in to the URL takeout.google.com, we can download all of our personal data stored across multiple google services such as Google Chrome, Google Drive, G oogle Contacts, Google Keep, Google Play, Google Home, Hangouts, Gmail, YouTube and so on…

But, for now let's “Deselect all” and choose Google Photos… Multiple formats of Google Photos data would be downloaded such as Photos, Videos and Metadata of them, we can also choose to download specific albums if required.

By clicking “next” at the bottom of the page, we can choose delivery methods such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and so on... But let's choose “send download link via email” remember once email is received we would only have one week of time to download these extracted files.

We can now choose the frequency, file type and size. To reduce the number of files to download I am choosing 10GB as the file size.

By clicking on “create export”, a copy of our google photos would be created, and a download link would be sent to our email, mostly in a few hours or sometimes even days based on the size of our data.

Upon receiving the email from Google, we would have 7 days to download the exported files. These files are compressed and splitted based on the chosen size.
Lets now download all these zip files and extract our media files from it.

Open the extracted folder and refer to the “archive_browser.html” to identify any export issues with the files.

Now, Here comes our main problem, created date of the downloaded media file is incorrectly updated with the downloaded date, due to this incorrect date it would become very difficult to find our favorite photo or video from a well known date, However actual meta data of the file is stored in the JSON file downloaded next to this media file.

Now, let's start fixing the metadata of the downloaded media files absolutely for free.

This Metadata Fixer app uses free and open source software Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, it goes through each media file and their corresponding JSON file and merge them to update the metadata.

So, let's try and use the same technique.
Browse to the url exiftool.org and download the windows executable.
Rename it to exiftool.exe and copy the exe to the C:\Windows folder.

Just for the comparison, I am taking a copy of this folder and rename it to old. All the 4 commands we are going to use would be available in the description of this video.

Now, from the command prompt, browse to the parent folder of the actual photos folder.
Get the name of any file and run this command with the folder name followed by the file name.
It must display all existing metadata of the file including File Created Date.

In the same command Type dot(.) JSON next to the file name to view all available metadata tags in the JSON file. As we can see PhotoTakenTime tag has the right value that can be used to update File creation date.

Finally, to update the metadata of our media file, remember to run this command on the parent directory and pass child directory as parameter at the end.

FilecreatedDate metadata of the media file would be replaced with PhotoTakenTimeStamp metadata tag from the JSON file. Remember we have to use PhotoTakenTimeStamp instead of PhotoTakenTimeFormatted.

Apart from json files all other files in this child folder must get updated.
So, let's run the command, wow… it successfully updated all 13 images in the folder under a second.