I am migrating to Nextcloud memories and move away from Google photos however my previous phones and family are linked to the Google account is there a way to compare all the photos on my local gallery to my Google photos to make sure I have downloaded all the photos from there I don’t have time to download everything from Google photos and delete duplicates

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    If you’re looking for a more sure fire way, don’t use the app/your phone. Go to Google takeout and download all your contents from Photos onto your computer - if you have access to one. They come in zip files, which you can then unpack and store everything on your nextcloud server.

    Edit: important info in the replies below.

    • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      Just be aware that, unless they’ve changed this since I last looked, when you do this it strips out all of the metadata and provides it all in a single file which you would then have to find software to write it back on to every photo (if you want the metadata that is).

      • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Those googly-eyed SOBs! You’re right. I’m planning to migrate my photos to Ente whose upload tool fixes this, I think. But Nextcloud probably will not.