I couldn't find any D: reasons for this may be: about googlephotostakeouthelper

[hpsof]

what might be wrong? repeated the process with different settings and exports: always same message

[hpsof]

stupid question: does this really match to one of my year folders?

would following not deliver a successful match ?

• year-folder: takeout-20240509T051501Z-001

• (19|20)\d{2} <== year any from 19[00] up to 20[99]

• (0[1-9]|1[1,2]) <== month [00 to 12]

• (0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]) <== day [01 to 31]

[TheLastGimbus]

Look at visual guide in README once again. You need to end up with just a single folder named "Takeout", with bunch of "Photos from ..." inside it

[hpsof]

thats what i did, see above:

so i do not understand, whats not according to the instructions in the README ???

[hpsof]

oke. the problem was this:
checking the takout on google there was now one file more... (i.e. there is a no. 22 shown in the meantime)

when i got the message from google, "export done" there where 21 export-files (yes the whole is a large export. i have about 528 albums | 67402 pictures)

after downloading 21 and 22 again, adding the extract to AllTakeouts folder, the command succeeded:
D:\google-photos-takeout>gpth-windoza.exe -i AllTakeouts -o "photos-for-import" --albums duplicate-copy --skip-extras --guess-from-name --copy

Guessing dates from files : ███████████████████████████████████████. 4915/4972
Finding albums (this may take some time, dont worry :) ...
Coping photos to output folder : ████████████████████████████████████████ 4972/4972

DONE! FREEEEEDOOOOM!!!
Skipped 1570 extras
Couldn't find date for 53 photos/videos :/

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[TheLastGimbus]

You still have it wrong. You move all individiual folders named "Takeout" (with the upper T) from folders like "takeout-202003...", and merge them so that you and up with only a single Takeout folder. Your screenshots shows that you still have them inside those "takeout-2020..." folders.

I don't know if what you did now will work 100%, but would recommend to repeat it again the correct way 👍

[hugoduraes]

@TheLastGimbus I think I might be having the same issue. When I unzip the files I get a Takeout folder from which one, which I rename to something like takeout-2024050910515012-001 and move to inside a global takeout folder. I end up getting this file structure:

takeout
   takeout-2024050910515012-001
   takeout-2024050910515012-002
   takeout-2024050910515012-003

Is this how it's supposed to be? Or should the takeout folder have only the contents of all the takeout-2024050910515012-* folders?
If it's the latter, on a Mac, how do I merge folders with the same name into one folder?

Thanks

[TheLastGimbus]

rename to something like

no renaming, no no no

Is this how it's supposed to be?

Nope, still not

I don't know how to put it in other words, i already written and drawn everything... just copy and paste each folder named "Takeout" into single location to merge it

how do I merge folders with the same name into one folder?

Your system should ask you to do it when you paste same folder into same place